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Mesh Net Work Module

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Description:
YL-800N is a high performance, low power, long-range
micro-power RF module, using a distributed ad-hoc network
communication mode, embedded wireless MESH MANET protocols,
users do not need to do anything modified to present devices,
protocols, nor need for secondary development to module, but can
easily implement wireless ad hoc networks. RF chip module
technology based on spread spectrum frequency hopping, spread
spectrum calculations and leading internal automatic CRC error
correction processing. The stability, anti-interference ability and
receive sensitivity are better than other types of modules. Module
also supports API mode, transparent mode and AT command mode,
the user can configure our PC software, or send AT commands through the microcontroller, based on the
parameters of the actual demand for flexible configuration of the module, simple operation, easy to use,
strong adaptation.

Features：
 Frequency Range: 433/490MHz（Sx1278） or 868/915 MHz（Sx1276）.
 Based LoRa modulation techniques.
 Half-duplex communications, serial data transparent transmission.
 Embedded MESH distributed MANET protocols.
 each communication has multiple handshake confirmation, to ensure the stability of the data.
 Production free debugging, 3.4-5.5V voltage range can be customized 2.1-3.6V.
 Micro-power transmission, standard 100mW, 7-Level adjustable.
 Receive sensitivity up to -148dBm, the maximum transmit power + 20dBm.
 High-efficiency forward error correction coding techniques and frequency hopping mechanism,
anti-interference ability, low error rate.
 Support Serial wake, ready to send and receive data, no periodic wake-up time.
 Support Air wake AUX signal given by the module, Wake user device.
 CAD detection LoRa signal, to prevent accidental wake.
 Communication protocol conversion and RF transceiver to switch automatically, without user
intervention, simple to use.
 Can be flexibly set the module parameters via software or microcontroller commands.
 2.54 standard pin interface, easy embedded installation, TTL level signals.
 Built-in watchdog to ensure long-term reliable and stable operation.
 Open ground between nodes effective communication distance up to 2-3 km.

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1. Module package size(unit: mm)

2. Module Pin Definitions

Pin No. Pin Symbol Description

1 GND GND
2 VCC Power supply(3.3v ~ 5v)
3 EN No connection, Customized for the module
4 RXD UART Input，CMOS 3.3v or TTL 5v
5 TXD UART Output, CMOS 3.3v orTTL 5v
6 ACT No connection, Customized for the module
7 SET No connection, Customized for the module
Note: It needs a common ground when wireless modules connect to the customer's product, or
modules will not work normally.
Module and client device wiring diagram(TTL Interface)

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3. Parameter modifications and data transmission test
Connect YL-800N to the computer according to the typical application circuit, and plug in the power
and TTL to RS-232 converter SET pin to ground.

Choose the used serial port, read software directly, so you can read or modify network ID, power,
serial port baud rate, communication frequencies and other parameters on a single module. Modules can
be flexibly configured freely concentrator or node module, for detailed configuration instructions, please
refer to the relevant protocol.
When changing parameters, you choosed a parameter you want, and to write, and then read to check
if the module’s parameter is what you need. Module default transparent transmission mode, the
conncentrator module.
Data sending and receiving communications test, module opens the corresponding serial debugging
assistant through TTL interface connecting to computer, and send text or character information in one or
in serial debugging assistant, corresponding to the other of a serial will be received and displayed.T he
figure below COM3 received information from the send area receiving area COM4, COM3 receiving area
received the information from COM4 Send zone.
The contents of sent and received are consistent.

Notice:
a) Wireless module communication need install antenna, or not able to communicate in short distance.
b) When installing the module, the position of the antenna must not be too close to your MCU products.
c) When the power supply, make sure the ground of module is connected to the common ground of your
product!
d) When the product is working properly, do not touch the module and the antenna part in order to
achieve the best transmission results!

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4. YL-800N MESH network typical applications:

A basic MESH network consists of multiple nodes (NODE) module and a concentrator (ROOT)
module. Bi-directional data exchange between NODE and ROOT modules, multiple packets can be
relayed by NODE module. Data stream from ROOT to NODE be called down, and vice versa for the uplink.
Downlink data transmission for broadcasting (ROOT send data to all nodes can receive uplink data
transmission mode is uncast (NODE data sent to the nearest ROOT) route selection is done automatically.
Note that if you have more than one focus is ROOT, then NODE data transmission will automatically upload
to the nearest communication over ROOT, other ROOT cannot receive.

Only YL-800N module can easily set up the minimum two points to hundreds of points MESH
network. MESH is finished Fully Distributed symmetric network, in theory, only need a single type
of device can be. But to seamless compatibility with the user's existing agreement, packet format
is transparent transmission. In many applications, the user's message did not contain the flow of
information and data (up or downlink), this will lead to some real problems. Therefore, MESH
network defines two types of all mesh networking equipment: nodes and concentrator. Node
refers to is controlled equipment such as meters, sensors, switches and the like; concentrator
refers to control devices such as gateways, remote control. In this article, use nodes and
concentrator instead of the device name of the specific application. A MESH network can contain
multiple concentrators and a plurality of node devices. YL-800N module can both as node device
may also be used as a gateway device. All mesh networking equipment with electricity will work,
no network initialization process, the route will be automatically established on demand,
automatically maintained, without human intervention. Its networking diagram is as follows:
Ethernet.

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YL-800N Network diagram

Using YL-800N module can easily set up an excellent performance, low-power distributed
mature and stable MANET MESH, represents the most advanced level of MANET technology can
replace the cable, and centralized multipoint networking, greatly expanded network coverage
and network robustness, and can effectively reduce the cost of equipment and maintenance
costs.
YL-800N module applications in areas such as low-power sensor networks ad hoc networks,
wireless meter reading and other areas, with a clear technological advantage and price
advantage. For example, using the YL-800N wireless meter reading program, you can free from
outside interference and isolated nodes and the single-wide network. MESH wireless meter
reading programs collecting success rate reached 100%.

5. MESH Distributed Routing Protocols

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is a multi-hop network with a plurality of mobile nodes consisting of
routing, data transmission requires multiple nodes collaborate to complete, so routing protocol is a vital part
of the MANET. Compared to traditional wired networks, MANET has its own characteristics, such as
distributed control, dynamically changing network topology
Flutter structure, wireless transmission bandwidth and node capacity limitation, poor security, routing short
survival time. Ideal MANET routing protocol should have the following characteristics:
a) Distributed routing algorithm; distributed algorithm is more suitable for non-centric distributed control
network.
b) The adaptive ability; can adapt to rapidly changing network topology.
c) no loops; no loop is a basic requirement for any routing protocol to avoid routing errors and wasted
bandwidth.
d) The less cost of the route calculation and maintenance of control; with minimal control overhead to
achieve the most complete, most powerful feature is that all the routing protocols common goal.
e) To adapt to large-scale networks; robustness, scalability are both good.

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Single-path routing protocol does not fit MANET, for the following reasons:
a) The wireless network node has high mobility, limited bandwidth resources, and disconnection rate,
resulting in high network division opportunities. With expensive Single-path routing
algorithm ,convergence is slow.
b) The route is built through flooding technology, and when the node moves leading to the original route
fails, the single-path routing maintenance also requires flooding, will occupy Network bandwidth, when
a moderate number of routes need a lot of maintenance, frequent flooding of the entire network made
the routing control cost controlled by routing protocols so that demand control open Pin very large.
c) The single routing protocol does not consider the fairness, tend to source the heavy load distribute to
the node of the original destination and shortest path, you can not get well and with Track the entire
network topology information.
d) The data sending of single-path routing protocol only use one path, you can not send data in parallel or
concurrently, resulting in lower network transmission rate, delay increases, net. Network load
imbalance, causing network congestion.
MANET from any one source node to the destination node of the path usually have extra, but with
random node mobility, the entire network topology change frequently.
Multi-path routing protocol can overcome the single-path routing protocol insufficient, you can take full
advantages of network resources, balance network load, improve communications performance, avoiding
network shoc. MESH uses lightweight dynamic private demand multipath routing protocol, which is
designed for the MANET of the hardware resources with harsh, adaptive to wireless network of fast moving
topology ,
Topology change fast wireless network. The routing protocol routing can minimize the cost of
establishing and maintaining processes, can send data in parallel in multiple paths packets
The transmission can sense changes in the network topology and update routing without flooding,
seamless switching of different routes to see. The main features are: each section
maintain routing information as much as possible ; no routing loops; good routing stability, fast building
speed; capable of maintaining full advantage of the wireless signal redundancy, always maintain and
update routing, no overhead; routing algorithm weighs a lot of factors such as distance vector signal energy,
link quality and battery voltage etc; the sensitivity to the net
Changes in network topology , dynamic routing can quickly achieve optimal; high throughput; support
255 routing, big network scale.

MESH
MESH multi-path routing diagram as shown above, network topology diagram as shown on the left,
the black line represents the nodes. A and B on the right side is the established data link, the red line is the

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rout from point A to B , the blue line is the reverse path. A route is established by flooding, there’s no closed
loop between multiple routes , allowing multiple paths
Intersect. Each node will select as many nodes as possible as its next hop routing, data packets can
dynamically switch between multiple paths in parallel transmission.
Routing failure detection, the new route discovery, network topology change are perceived through
handshake packets between neighboring nodes listener , does not require either flooding or extra cost.all
nodes including a source node need only to find their own next-hop relay node, without the need to
determine the entire path, so the routing protocol overhead is very small,
Topology for fast-changing mobile network, can quickly find the best route instantly to support 255
large scale routing networks.
MESH routing protocol will be a comprehensive choice of algorithm for route selection, including
distance vector, signal quality (link status) and the node remaining charge - class MMBCR
(Min-Max Battery Cost Routing). Path vector algorithm according to the distance from the destination
to decide the routs, each node maintains a vector.
The best distance to each target currently known is listed in the table. Node can choose the
destination node closer than itself according to this vector table as a forwarding route. You can find the
nearest path between two nodes according to Distance vector algorithm, but not necessarily the best path.
Unlike wired networks, wireless signals for MANET is susceptible to outside interference, resulting in
shorter survival time data links, poor stability characteristics. Routing protocol must be able to correctly
choose a good quality signal, stable link path to ensure stability, timeliness, reliability and performance of
the network. MESH routing protocol
can promptly detect multiple routes’ real-time link quality, and can choose the path with the best link
quality in a very short time, and, to select the next most
Near path as a route when necessary . MESH link-state routing algorithm diagram is as follows, A can
access to C via B that is A-B-C, but this trail is an unstable link, but there is another one path with the best
link quality from A to C, A-D-E-C, although the distance is closer if choosing ABC path , but due to the Text
reception success rate is very low, it will greatly increase the probability of packet retransmission and waste
much time. And if you choose ADEC, it can ensure the newspaper text transmission reliability and
timeliness, although the distance will be farther away.

MESH link-state routing algorithm schematic MESH nodes remaining power routing schematic

As for low-power MANET, the routing nodes need to fully consider battery power, should avoid route
nodes with low power as possible. MESH
Routing protocols use category MMBCR algorithm, and automatically selects the nodes with relatively
large remaining power to do routing. MESH nodes remaining power routing algorithm diagram is as follows
A can access to C via B, A-B-C, but the remaining power of B nodes is low., while there is another a little

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far path from A to C a little far, ADEC, with higher remaining electricity amount in the path nodes. Choosing
ABC path is closer , but it will soon run out of battery B node. If you choose to ADEC, although distance will
be farther, it will increase the service life of the entire network system to reduce the maintenance costs.

MESH routing protocol is ideal for MANET routing protocol design, with a distributed, robust, strong
healing powers, lightweight, multi-path, loop-free, network size suitable for mobile networks and so on.

6. Parameter settings
Parameters command modify the instructions can modify parameters by modifying the software
directly .

Module user interface mode is divided into three types: hex command mode, transparent mode, AT
command mode;
Module device type is divided into two kinds: the main module (concentrator modules) and the slave
module (node module), can be modified by AT commands
the main module in transparent mode, the data the serial port received transparently sent to all of the
modules; the slave module in transparent mode, the data the serial port received transparently sent to
made the main module.
In transparent mode, input "+++" will not be transparent sent,but to switch the user interface mode to
AT command mode, the module is capable of responding to AT commands,
But this switch cannot be saved, it will return to the transparent mode after module resets, , the you
need to use the AT in the AT command mode + USERMODE
To Command Change if want to change to the user interface mode in a long time.

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It should be changed the default device type to slave module types, because the number of slave
modules are usually bigger than the main modules when using.

Users can use a variety of network ways:

A. A completely non-transparent peer networking mode
There is no master-slave relationship between all parties, Absolute and pure MESH network, module
type and the user interface mode are both consistent but they are non-transparent mode.
In this networking mode, all modules can use hexadecimal command or AT command to send
broadcast or unicast data, it needs destination module address; transmitting broadcast data to the
destination address is 0xFFFF. Modules can use hexadecimal command mode or AT command mode
receives broadcast prescribed protocol format or unicast data,and learns the module source address of
sending data.User device needs to send unicast data and need to manage other modules
communications short address.
B. Completely transparent peer networking mode
There is no master-slave relationship among all modules, Absolute MESH network, the module type
are all main module type, the user interface mode are all transparent mode.
C. Non-transparent master-slave networking mode
A module is the main module, other modules are all the slave module, the communication between
master and slave modules, slave modules don’t require communication, the user interface mode is
consistent, but are Non-transparent mode.
This networking mode is actually the same as the first one, there is no communication between the
modules among the slave modules.
D. The master-slave mode Transparent Network
A module is the slave module, other modules from the module, the communication between master
and slave modules, generally do not need communications, user interface mode are consistent and are
Non-transparent mode.
In this networking mode,the main the module can send broadcast and send unicast data to slave
moduiles, data to slave modules is transparently sent from the serial port, and the data received from the
serial port of the slave module will be transparently unicast to the main module. The main module Received
it will send it accoring to the protocol form a of the main module serial mode Slave Users devices is passive
devices and do not need to do any changes, and any information: the main users devices need to manage
the communication short address of the slave modules.
E. Using a dedicated Concentrator modules automatic networking mode
In small-scale networking application, you can manage and frequency management module address
manually, but in large-scale network application, this management becomes burdensome
And error-prone. Our company's dedicated concentrator module, adds a Cotex M3 core of
high-performance 32-bit microprocessor utside the ordinary networking module and high capacity
non-volatile memory for the group to achieve automatic network management, network management
in its group work include: automatic frequency management, automated mailing address management (by
the application address to correspond to
Automatically associated sites), dynamic source routing management. Dedicated concentrator
module can help users easily compose a large-scale, high-performance, automated maintenance wireless
network.

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7. AT command set
The factory is 9600 baud module, serial port parameters: 1 stop bit, no parity; device type "slave
module"; User mode is "transparent mode"; channel number is 1 channel (module supports 0-7
A total of 8 channels)， to enter the AT needs to send a "+++."
Note: There must be a space between the command word and behind parameters; certainly add
a enter command after entering commands and parameters, namely '\ r' and '\ n'.
Downlink command 1: Test connection command
Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT OK N/A
Downlink command 2: Discover a program version number
Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+VERSION +VERSION=< Para1> <Para1>：
The firmware version number

For example:
AT+VERSION\r\n
+Firmware V2.2

Downlink command 3：Restore Default Settings

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+DEFAULT Ok N/A

Downlink 4：Software reset / restarts

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+RESET Ok N/A

Downlink 5：Query / set the baud rate

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+BAUD +BAUD=<Para1> <Para1>：baud rate
AT+BAUD < Para1> 1.+BAUD=<Para1> 1---1200
OK——Success 2---2400
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— 3---4800
Failure 4---9600
5---14400
6---19200
7---28800
8---38400
9---57600
A---76800
B---115200
C---230400
Default：4---9600

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Note: After the baud rate change, if is not the default 9600, or later when you need to set parameter or data
communication, need to use the setting baud rate. After the baud rate changed, it won't function until
resetting the module.
Downlink commands 6: Query / set the serial port communication parameters
Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+UARTPARA + UARTPARA =<Para1>,<Para2> <Para1>：Stop bit
AT+ UARTPARA <Para1>,<Para2> 1.＋UARTPARA =<Para1>,<Para2> 0：1 Stop bit
OK ——Sucess 1：2 Stop bit
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>——Failure <Para2>:The parity bit

0: No parity
1: Odd parity
2: Even parity
default：0,0
Note: After the serial port parameters changed, the module won't function until been reset.

Downlink commands 7: Query / set a master-slave mode module APP

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+ROLE +ROLE=<Para1> <Para1>：
AT+ROLE < Para1> 1.+ROLE=<Para1> 0--- slave device
OK——Success 1--- master device
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— default：0 slave device
Failure

Downlink command 8: Query - Local module address

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+LADDR +LADDR=<Para1> <Para1>:Local long address of
module
e.g.:11:22:33:44:55:66
Note: Long address of the module is preset in the module when out of the factory ,cannot be changed.

Downlink commands 9: Query / Set eleven module communication short address

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+SADDR +SADDR=<Para1> <Para1>:This module
1.+SADDR=<Para1> communication short address
OK——Success e.g.: XXXX 2-byte hexadecimal
AT+SADDR < Para1>
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— System
Failure
Note: The communication short address of the module default is last two bytes of long addresses. Mutual
communications between the modules need different short address.

Downlink commands 10: Query / set a module channel number \ channel group number
Downlink command Answer Parameters

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AT+CHANEL + CHANEL =<Para1> <Para1>：Module's operating
AT+ CHANEL < Para1> 1.+ CHANEL =<Para1> channel number or Channel
OK——Success Group number
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— 0---32
Failure

Downlink commands 10: Query / set a module's operating network number

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+PANID + PANID =<Para1> <Para1>：
AT+ PANID < Para1> 1.+ PANID =<Para1> Networking module network
OK——Success number
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— e.g.: XXXX 2-byte hexadecimal
Failure System

Downlink commands 11: Query / set a module user interface mode

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+USERMODE + USERMODE =<Para1> <Para1>：
AT+ USERMODE < Para1> 1.+ USERMODE =<Para1> 0: 16 Hex Command Mode
OK——Success 1: Transparent Mode
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— 2: AT Command Mode
Failure

Downlink commands 12: Send the application data

Downlink command Answer Parameters
AT+ SEND < 1.+ SEND =<Para1>,<Para2> <Para1>: Send short address of the
Para1>,<Para2> OK——Success destination node
2.ERROR=<Error_Code>—— e.g.: XXXX 2-byte hexadecimal
Failure <Para2>: double quotes to send data
“0123456789abcdef” is hexadecimal
0x01,0x23,0x45,0x67,0x89,0xab,0xcd,0x
ef 8 bytes data

Uplink command 12: receiving data indicating

Uplink command Parameters
+Recv:< Para1>,<Para2>， <Para1>：The source node short address of received data
<Para3> e.g.: 0001 is a 2-byte hexadecimal 0x0001
<Para2>:The byte number of received data
<Para3>: Data received
0123456789abcdef is hexadecimal:
0x01,0x23,0x45,0x67,0x89,0xab,0xcd,0xef 8 bytes data

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