Installation Maintenance Kit (IMK)

A WIN-WIN Solution Tool for both ASPs (Technicians) and

Ericsson (Integrators)

Kehinde POPOOLA
Lead ASP Mentor, Ericsson WAM,MMEA

2019-04-10
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Proposed Solution: WiFi box in the field
More visibility and faster troubleshooting for installation related issues

— A box enclosing a Raspberry Pi with WiFi module

— ASP able to connect to the Baseband using any Android phone
to check and locate common faults:
— VSWR check
— CPRI State
— HW inventory
— RET config check
— Alarm Check Wifi Box
— Phone offers instantaneous analytics VSWR
to central
— A key ingredient towards eliminating the
laptop as True ZT

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Concept Start design Field demo Prototype FOA Production

ALFA LB
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Released MTN SA
…Before IMK
Integration Engineers spend more than 50% of their time performing tasks which
ASPs could perform if the right tool were available. ASPs also spend more time
waiting on site to be attended in-turns.

LTE have one cell disable when doing health check

e1 ports down, please check Check RET please
Cannot ping the gateway
It's up please check
INT 2G

INT 3G
ASP

INT 4G
VSWR cleared please check & confirm

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 IMK– The SOLUTION!!!

A WiFi solution which gives the field technician more visibility on installation quality
before site goes on air and easy troubleshooting of post integration installation-related
issues.

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 IMK

Visual intelligence kit that offers Field Engineers a mobile App to detect common alarms
which often as a result of poor installation or defective hardware.

Where Speed compliment Quality. As easy as…

Connect to check and resolve ThenConnect to Confirmalarm resolved

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THE SIMPLE TOOLS YOU NEED

Tools needed:
– Android app
– Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or B+
– Ethernet cable (min 1 meter)
– Power bank
– Micro USB to USB cord for power
– Micro SD card 16GB SANDISK

*Mobile App and SD card software shall be shared by Ericsson Rep*

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 THESTEPS

Steps Involved
1. Power Up the device.
2. Turn on you mobile Wi-Fi to scan. 2 3 5
3. Select pithree, pswd (rbsserver).
4. Connect the device to Baseband via
Ethernet cable.
5. Launch the mobile App, then connect.

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 JUSTTHEWAY

— Many Technicians connect at

same time to the Baseband
using their Android phones App
to check below in read-only
mode :
 VSWR check MAIN MENU INTERFACE VSWR CHECK EXTERNALALARM CHECK
 CPRI State
 HW inventory
 RET config check
 External alarms status

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…CONT’D

FRU STATUS PHYSICALINTERFACE STATUS IP INTERFACE STATUS RET STATUS CHECK

 Transport check
 Iub/ OAM IPaddress

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THANK YOU