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Contents
1 System Overview................................................................................... 5
1.1 Introduction................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 System Communication Overview.............................................................................. 6

2 Starting Your Freerider III System........................................................ 7

3 Creating a Measurement Campaign..................................................... 9

3.1 Creating a Single Job................................................................................................. 13
3.1.1 Advanced Forcing......................................................................................................... 15
3.1.2 Sync Action................................................................................................................... 16
3.2 Deleting a Measurement Campaign.......................................................................... 18

4 Creating a Scanner Measurement...................................................... 20

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SwissQual®...QualiPoc System Overview
Introduction

1 System Overview
QualiPoc Freerider III is a backpack benchmarking system with an Android tablet (FR
Master), up to 6 smartphones FR Slaves with optional RF connectors for external
antennas, and an RF scanner.

You can also use a smartphone as a FR Master. For the best Freerider III experience,
use a tablet.

● Introduction............................................................................................................... 5
● System Communication Overview............................................................................ 6

1.1 Introduction
Freerider III has been optimized for indoor and outdoor testing, for example, in build-
ings, in public transportation, and in pedestrian areas. You can also mount the Free-
rider III hardware in a vehicle.

Figure 1-1: Freerider III

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System Communication Overview

1.2 System Communication Overview

Freerider III use the following forms of communication:
● Bluetooth:
● Ethernet:
● USB:
● Wi-Fi:

Scanner NCM GPS Mouse

Freerider
Master
Tablet

Freerider Slave Smartphones

Figure 1-2: System communication overview

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2 Starting Your Freerider III System

This procedure assumes that your Freerider III system is pre-configured. For a descrip-
tion on how to create a Freerider III system, see the
Manual - Freerider III.pdf document.

To start your Freerider III system

1. Turn on the master tablet and start QualiPoc.

2. Press the main power button ([I/O]) between the two fans on the FR3-CORE.

I/O

BAT 4

BAT 3

BAT 2

BAT 1

NCM USB 3.0

Battery
Locking Bar

Figure 2-1: Location of main power button (I/O) on FR3-CORE

3. On the "Slaves" monitor on the master tablet, ensure that the unit status of each
slave phones is idle.

Figure 2-2: Status icon for an idle slave

4. On the FR Master, touch the menu icon at the top of the screen, touch "Device
manager", and then verify that the NCM and optional scanner are connected.

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Figure 2-3: NCM and scanner ready

Note: For more information on configuring a scanner, see Chapter 4, "Creating a

Scanner Measurement", on page 20.

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3 Creating a Measurement Campaign

This following procedure describes how to create a blank campaign.

QualiPoc automatically saves changes while you configure a campaign.

To create a measurement campaign

1. On the FR Master, touch the menu icon at the top of the screen and touch "Cam-
paigns".

Figure 3-1: Campaigns

2. Swipe from the left or touch the sliding drawer icon to open the "All campaign
folders" drawer and touch the "Create campaign" icon .

Figure 3-2: Create campaign

3. In the "Create campaign" box, enter a name for the campaign, and then touch
"OK".

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Figure 3-3: Blank campaign

4. Assign the FR Slaves to the campaign.

● To assign an individual slave, touch "[Not assigned]" at the top of a column,
and then touch a FR Slave in the list.
Assigned slaves in the list are light gray.

Figure 3-4: Campaign tags

● To automatically add FR Slaves to all the columns, touch the context menu at
the top of the screen, and touch an option, for example, "Auto-assign connec-
ted slaves".

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Figure 3-5: Auto-assign slaves

Note: When you create a campaign, "Auto-assign connected slaves" is the default
assignment option.
5. Create a "Single Job" or "Job Sequence".

6. (Optional) If you need to override the start delay that QualiPoc calculates, touch
the gear icon , touch "Instant start delay", and then touch a value.

Figure 3-6: Instant start delay

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Figure 3-7: Instant start delay value

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Creating a Single Job

If you configure a speech double ended test (call, video call, WhatsApp call and What-
sApp video call) on a FR Master, a linking icon is displayed between columns 1 and 2
(and between columns 3 and 4, 5 and 6) if these adjacent columns represent A- and B-
sides:

Figure 3-8: Configuring a speech double ended test

If the linking icon is selected (displayed in red), Freerider III starts the test immediately
without configuration call:
● If the FR Slave are not in the desired columns, simply reassign them.
● The FR Master does not check that the timings (in the linked columns) are the
same. We recommend creating the A-side job first, and then to copy/paste it to the
B-side column, changing both the side and the phone number.
● If forcing is set on one or both sides, the forcing must have a fixed duration.
Uncheck "External B unit" in the job, otherwise a full configuration call is execu-
ted.
Important:
You cannot leave and join again a campaign—respectively by using "Leave campaign"
and "Join campaign"—executing a speech double ended test without configuration call,
i.e., if the linking icon is selected (displayed in red): if you do so, Freerider III does
not generate the B-side file.

3.1 Creating a Single Job

For a description of the types of jobs that you can configure, see the
Manual - QualiPoc Handheld.pdf document.

To run a single job on a single FR Slave, create a campaign with only one job and one
assigned FR Slave.

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Creating a Single Job

To create a single job

1. Touch the context menu for the FR Slave and touch "Add Job":

Figure 3-9: Create job

2. In the "Select job type" list, touch a category, for example, "Single Call Tests", and
then touch a job, for example, "Call to any Number":

Figure 3-10: Select job type

3. Enter the relevant information, for example, a "Phone number", and then use the
toolbar icons to specify the settings for the test.

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Figure 3-11: Toolbar icons

Gray icon = Not set

Green icon = Set
Red icon = Set but not valid, for example, when you copy a test from one FR Slave to another FR
Slave the used Access point is not valid or the set forcing is not supported by that device

Table 3-1: Description of the toolbar icons

Toolbar Icon Setting Category

Forcing settings
You can also specify advanced forcing settings
such as "Channel", "Cell lock", and so on. The
settings that are available depend on the device
that you are using. For more information, see
Chapter 3.1.1, "Advanced Forcing", on page 15.

Access point settings

Packet capture settings

Note: Mandatory parameters are highlighted in red.

Figure 3-12: Mandatory parameters

4. Create the scanner measurement tasks.

3.1.1 Advanced Forcing

You can use advanced forcing as Job forcing in a measurement. You can copy and
paste forcing settings from one FR Slave to another as well as from one job to another
job.

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Figure 3-13: Copy forcing settings

When you apply the advanced forcing settings, QualiPoc may reboot the affected FR
Slaves, depending on the device and the forcing type.

3.1.2 Sync Action

By adding a "Sync" action to a FR Slave job, you mix speech double ended tests with
other tests and you synchronize the different tests between the involved FR Slaves.
When a "Sync" action is present, all FR Slaves wait for the others to reach the same
sync in the sequence, e.g., "Sync #2", before proceeding with the next test.

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Figure 3-14: Sync action in Freerider campaign

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Validations and limitations

● Define the same number of "Sync" actions for all FR Slaves having "Sync" actions.
● In a campaign, the first speech double-ended test determines if it is an A- or a B-
Side.
● If you mix speech double-ended tests with other tests, you cannot exchange the A-
Side FR Slave for the B-Side FR Slave.
● You can only add tests to a speech double ended test, i.e., "+" icon is available,
once you add a "Sync" action.
● If campaigns use distinct FR Slave, you can start more than one synchronized
campaign.
● If a FR Slave using a "Sync" action disconnects, the campaign waits for it to recon-
nect; there is no available timeout.
● By using "Leave campaign" option (from the campaign settings), you can remove
an unresponsive FR Slave.
● If you remove and add a FR Slave having "Sync" actions, by using respectively
"Leave campaign" and "Join campaign", the other slaves no longer wait for it.
● The Freerider III system cannot manage the campaign anymore if the FR Master
crashes; if this occurs, stop the campaign manually on each FR Slave.
● If two adjacent columns (1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6) have speech double ended
tests with different sides defined (A- and B-Side), the linking option to avoid config-
uration call is automatically set and cannot be disabled.
Important:
You cannot leave and join again a campaign—respectively by using "Leave campaign"
and "Join campaign"—executing a speech double ended test without configuration call,
i.e., if the linking icon is selected (displayed in red): if you do so, Freerider III does
not generate the B-side file.

3.2 Deleting a Measurement Campaign

To delete a measurement campaign

1. On the FR Master, touch the menu icon at the top of the screen and touch "Cam-
paigns"

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Figure 3-15: Campaigns

2. Swipe from the left or touch the sliding drawer icon to open the "All campaign
folders" drawer.

3. Touch a campaign in the list and touch the menu icon for this campaign.

4. Touch the "Delete campaign" item.

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4 Creating a Scanner Measurement

This section describes how to configure a scanner measurement with the Device Man-
ager.

To create a new scan

1. On the FR Master, touch the menu icon at the top of the screen, and touch
"Device manager".
Tip: You can also open the "Device manager" by touching and holding the NCM
icon on the Information Banner.

2. In the "Devices" list, click the scanner, for example, "Scanner RuS (TSME)".

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5
4
6 8

2 9

Figure 4-1: Scanner configuration

1 = Scanner status
2 = Press and hold to move, cut, copy, delete, or paste a scan
3 = Add scan to selected configuration
4 = Displays list of available scanner configurations
5 = Creates new scanner configuration
6 = Delete or duplicate scanner configurations
7 = Check scanner details and change scanner name
8 = Updates scanner configuration
9 = Details of scanner configuration profile

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3. Click "Add scan" at the bottom of the screen and specify the scan settings.
Note: Repeat this step for each scan that you want to add.
4. Click "Apply scanner configuration".

5. If you want to save a scanner measurement files, touch the menu icon at the top
of the screen, touch "Campaigns", and then touch the "Start Scanner Measure-
ment" check box.
Note: If you select this option, QualiPoc validates the parameters that the scanner
measurement does not support before starting the measurement, that is, "Schedul-
ing" and "Cycles".
6. In the "Devices" list, click "GPS", and configure the GPS options.

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4

Figure 4-2: GPS Configuration

1 = Configure internal GPS device

2 = Select the GPS source
3 = Pair the FR Master with a new Bluetooth GPS device
4 = GPS location information

Note: Figure 4-2 is for an internal GPS device. You can also connect a USB or
Bluetooth GPS device to the NCM, which sends the location information to the FR
Master, which in turn shares the information with the FR Slaves.

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