Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA)
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| Flexible decode engine: Decode multiple standards-based and proprietary protocol stacks and ZigBee application profiles with the SNA's flexible decode engine and XML-based decode definitions. |
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| Complete information about your wireless sensor network: Access every field of every packet from every device in your network. | |
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| Narrow your search quickly with powerful and easy to use filters: Find packets of interest from among thousands or millions by defining filters. Quickly narrow your search by requesting similar packets from a selected packet. | |
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| Protocol decoding: View detailed packet-by-packet decodes of every 802.15.4 and ZigBee (APL and NWK layer) header field. Auto-detect* security key exchanges at the APL and NWK layer. Use detected keys (or manually entered keys) to decrypt packets for analysis. With release 3.0 and newer, protocol decoding is available for additional network protocols including ZigBee RF4CE, 5LoWPAN, JenNet (from Jennic), SimpliciTI (from TI) and Synkro (from Freescale. |
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| Analyze new or custom applications: With SoftProfiles™ you can define new or custom applications with ease using XML. Includes definitions of the ZigBee Cluster Library and ZigBee Application Profiles. | |
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| Navigate through large amounts of data and share them: Save and replay your network at original (or faster) speeds, pause, step or fast forward. Insert breakpoints at events of interest. Share data between teams to quickly resolve issues. |
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| Multi-node capture: Use multi-node capture to collect packets from multiple channels or large dispersed networks. |
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** Auto-dection of security keys for Professional edition only
Visualize
Understand device and network behavior quickly with visual troubleshooting. Observe your network's operation by visually analyzing how devices join the network, routing behavior, and application binding. Visualization is supported for all protocols that use IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Associations.
The following table shows which visualization features are supported for the Standard (Std) and Professional (Pro) editions of the SNA. Note that the Standard edition can display a maximum of 10 devices, while the Professional edition can display up to the capture system limit.
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| Visual network: Use visual analysis to watch devices join a network and understand behavior by observing packet routes. Unique views help to simplify monitoring and troubleshooting. | |
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| Rapid troubleshooting with visual context filters: Select any visual object such as a device, route, or binding and show all packets associated with that object. | |
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| Visual profiles: Visualize endpoints and bindings to rapidly determine application behavior. Observe all transactions and identify correct bindings. | |
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| Obtain new measurements and overlay information: Critical information, such as battery level and LQI between devices, can be overlaid on other information such as network structure and routes. | |
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| Obtain new perspectives: Quickly switch between a tree view and a physical layout to better understand the impact of physical structures and network design on the behavior and performance of your network and devices. | |
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| Validate ZigBee commissioning: Watch network formation to ensure devices join correctly. Right-click any device to configure and specify commissioning settings. | |
Measure
Use the industry’s only ZigBee performance analysis solution to ensure that your network meets necessary performance requirements.
Note that measurements are supported only in the Professional edition of the SNA, and only for ZigBee and 802.15.4.
- Complete measurements: Obtain performance measurements on every single device, route and application binding in the network.
- Critical metrics: Determine performance with critical metrics such as packet counts and losses, and min/avg/max end-to-end latencies.
Commission
Simplify the configuration and commissioning of ZigBee networks during development, field trials, deployment and maintenance with easy-to-use GUI and standards-based over-the-air commands to ensure interoperability.
Note that commissioning is supported only in the Professional edition of the SNA, and only for the ZigBee protocol stack.
- Flexible: Use the SNA as a commissioning tool, coordinator, trust center (distributing keys and managing certificates), router, or end device.
- Commission: Commission key startup parameters such as Extended PAN ID, channel, and security keys with easy-to-use graphical layouts or devices list.
- Binding: Use binding and group commissioning to establish control paths between devices. Store binding and group information in devices or tables.
- Security: Start or join networks using ZigBee security (NWK, APS and Smart Energy KE).
- Discover: Scan the network to discover its overall structure. Discover active services on endpoints of any device.
Over-the-air: Configure devices using standards-based over-the-air commands to ensure interoperability. - Locationing: Scan to find the locations of individual devices.**
- Upgrade: Upgrade device firmware over-the-air to save time and reduce errors.**
- Customize: Use Daintree's API to customize and extend the commissioning tool's behavior and issue instructions directly to the network.
- Portable: Run the SNA on a laptop for a truly portable commissioning, monitoring and analysis solution, that you can take where you need it, when you need it.
- Monitor and troubleshoot: Verify and monitor with the industry's most comprehensive analyzer in one integrated solution.
** Supported on selected stacks
Software editions
There are two SNA editions available: Standard and Professional. A summary of the differences between these editions is provided below. See the software edition comparison matrix for more detailed information.
Standard edition
An essential set of tools for wireless embedded development and testing. Key features include comprehensive protocol analysis with detailed packet lists and packet decodes, filters and extensive capture playback controls, editable XML-based protocol stack and ZigBee application profile definitions, and basic network visualization for protocols that use IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Associations.
Professional edition
A complete toolkit for ZigBee and 802.15.4 development, testing, commissioning, and maintenance. Key differentiators include multi-node capture, advanced network visualization, detailed performance measurements, active analysis of live networks, advanced troubleshooting, and commissioning tool. Note that while some features such as multi-node capture provide additional support for flexible (non-ZigBee) protocols, most of the enhanced functionality is specifically for ZigBee.
