Commissioning Challenge

In
Remote Communities
Humanitarian Asistance
Broadcast, SNGs, Goverment
and Enterprises

Alvaro Sanchez
[email protected]
Who does Need Commissioning?
Maritime
Emergencies
Military

Field BroadCast

Oil & Gas

 Challanges
Main Challanges:
• Not easy task
• Time Consuming
• Different Languages
• No cellphone Connection
• Human Factor
• Interference, CrossPol and ASI
• Poor performances
• Wrong Power adjustment
• Booking Bottle Necks at NOC
 How could
AutoCommissioning Help?
Satmotion Pocket
Remote Equipment
Compass & Elevation Tool Pointing & Line-Up Tool
(Optional) (Mandatory)

Compass & Elevation Pointing & Line Up Tool

Tool adjusts to installer’s displays information
geographic location transmitted from hub.
Setup at Remote Site
Sitio de Instalación
Capabilities:
• Parameters Configuration
• Pointing the antenna (SNR)
• Line up in TX and CW Power adjust
• CrossPol and Adjacent Satellite
Interference Adjust.
Available:
• Laptop/PC
• Tablet/ Smartphones

Ethernet

WIFI Access Point Indoor Unit (IDU) Outdoor Unit (ODU)

Satmotion Pocket
Hub Equipment
AutoCommissioning
Benefits of Integrasys’ Automated Remote
Commissioning System

• Point, peak, pol, and ASI records can be

accessed afterwards to approve the installation
work or to order the installer back to re-do the
job.
• Accurate pointing and interference nulling
• Maximizes receive SNR and bandwidth
efficiency of installed remotes
• Commissioning a remote no longer requires
real time coordination among satellite operator,
VSAT network operator, and installers in the
field.
• Gone is the phone call
• Gone are fixed time windows (typically 30
minutes
• Up to 10 Users can use Satmotion Pocket
simultaneously.
 AutoCommissioning
Cost Savings:
Satmotion Pocket has the potential
to save between 350K$ and 460K$
of operation cost for a 5000 VSAT
deployment.

DEVELOPED COUNTRY COSTS DEVELOPING COUNTRY COSTS

SP SAVING
COST FACTOR
DESCRIPTION ACTUAL per month SP SAVING per month ACTUAL per month SP SAVING per month

Terminals field Faster installations 140.000€ 5.600€ 180.000€ 7.200€

installation

NOC staff support to Remove NOC staff 6.000€ 6.000€ 667€ 667€
field installation/ needed
commissioning

Interference penalties Interference reduced 89.286€ 17.134€ 89.286€ 17.134€

TOTAL PER MONTH 235.286€ 28.734€ 269.953€ 21.801€
TOTAL 12 MONTHS 2,823.432€ 344.808€ 3,239.436€ 264.812€

 Based on Price Waterhouse Coopers deployment cost analysis.

Installation Step 1
Point the VSAT Antenna
• Course Pointing gets a remote into its network with a temporary line up.
• Can be done slowly without any cellular data connection using only the
azimuth and elevation information from VSAT modem.
• Done quickly by Satmotion Pocket where mobile data service available.

• Fine Pointing done while Satmotion Pocket tracks receive SNR during sweeps.
Installation Step 2
Null the Cross Pol
• Cross pol is nulled in much the same way that fine pointing is done.
• Installer rotates feed past max upstream cross pol isolation and then back to it.
Installation Step 4
Peak the Power of the BUC
• Installer moves satellite modem indoors between steps 3 and 4.
• Step 4 must be done with the modem attached to its production IFL cables.
• 1 dB compression point found by increasing modem’s transmit power until
+1 dB modem transmit power no longer results in +1 dB receive SNR at hub.
Installation Step 3
Measure ASI
• ASI measurement is not necessary if the antenna is pointed properly in step 1.
• Antenna’s azimuth needs to be fine tuned if excessive ASI is detected.

CoPol (yellow)

Adjacent Satellite
Interference (red)

Cross Pol (orange)

Installation Step 5
Find Nominal Transmit Power
• Satmotion Pocket resets the modem to get the remote back into its network.
• Satmotion Pocket finds the modem’s nominal transmit dBm under clear skies.
• Satmotion Pocket logs the installation measurements.
# LOG FILE FOR TERMINAL WITH MAC: 006043621f37 # LINE-UP LOG FILE OF TERMINAL WITH MAC: 006043621f37
# MODEL TYPE: EvolutionX1IndoorRemote Rev.5 # DATETIME: Apr 23, 2013 6:15:10 PM
# SERIAL NUMBER(SN): 111250 # IDU_POWER(dBm) PIRE(dBW) CROSSPOL(dB)
# DID: 234992274 # ----------------------------------------------
# NMS Address: 10.100.22.187 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 -21.0 -9.6 -7.55
# DATETIME: Apr 23, 2013 6:15:10 PM -21.0 26.08 32.45
# -------------------------------------------------- -5.0 26.28 32.25
-21.0 25.89 29.51
Network Parameters: -4.0 26.08 32.25
Lan IP Address: 66.205.36.105 ·············································
Lan IP Mask: 255.255.255.0 Transmitter 1dB Compression Point Measurement
Lan IP Mac: 006043621f37 ·············································
Start Time : Tue Apr 23 18:14:14 EDT 2013
Site Location Parameters: End Time : Tue Apr 23 18:14:37 EDT 2013
Latitude: 38.95 ·············································
Longitude: 282.579 Terminal : LAN MAC 006043621f37
Spacecraft_long: -93.1 CW Freq. : 14212000 KHz
Reflector_offset_angle: 0.0 ·············································
------------------------------------------
IDU Parameters (Rx): Pout(IDU)[dBm] EIRPrx(NOC)[dBW]
SNR(dB) MAX. REACHED DURING PROCESS: 9 ------------------------------------------
SNR(dB) FINAL: 9 -24.0 25.36
Rx Freq. (KHz): 11905850 -23.0 27.32
Rx LO(LNB) (KHz): 10750000 -22.0 28.49
Rx Symbol Rate (ksym/s): 1500 -21.0 28.49
-20.0 29.08
ODU Parameters: -19.0 29.28
Tx CW Freq. (KHz): 14212000 -18.0 29.28
Tx Lo (KHz): 12800000 ------------------------------------------
Tx Output Power (dBm): -28 Pout(IDU)@1dB Compression Point: -20.0 dBm
Tx Symbol Rate (ksym/s): 128 ------------------------------------------
Satmotion Pocket

Conclusion:
• AutoCommissioning Systems allows a Cost
reduction, time and Interferences
minimization.
• Satmotion Pocket reduces All possible
Interference that many others cannot.
• Maximize BW efficiency
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