IEEE 802.3cg 10 Mb/s Single Twisted Pair Ethernet IEEE 802.3 SPMD 10SPE Multidrop Enhancements Study Group OBJECTIVES FOR THE ELEVATOR/ESCALATOR AND AUTOMOTIVE SEGMENTS TOPOLOGY DISCOVERY (RANGING) 20 JANUARY 2020 GENEVA v10 20 January 20202 ▪ Gergely Huszak (Kone) ▪ Ari Kattainen (Kone) Presenters ▪ Piergiorgio Beruto (Canovatech) Supporter 3 ▪ Permits measuring the absolute and/or relative wire length (distance) of remote PHYs from the source’s perspective over a mixing segment, which is an enabler things like: – assigning: ▪ floor numbers to nodes in an elevator shaft ▪ seat number to nodes in a train ▪ door and light ID to nodes in a car – manufacturing nodes without hardware setup elements (DIPs, rotaries, jumpers) or manufacturing-time configuration steps, as nodes are configured as per their physical location – supervising network on a regular basis (“on-demand” execution) ▪ Most notable technical parameters would be resolution, precision and speed (execution time) ▪ It would preferred to be run in conjunction with PLCA BEACON, to eliminate the possibility of “in-band” interference (with normal communication/bus cycles) Topology discovery: ranging (1/2) 20 January 2020 4 ▪ Execution could be “on-demand” (upon powerup and/or on a regular basis) ▪ Would be an optional feature ▪ Preferred to work in conjunction with “PHY-ID auto-configuration” ▪ Not currently (15 January 2020) covered yet by visible effort/objectives → This presentation proposes listing this as an objective Topology discovery: ranging (2/2) 20 January 2020 Floor 1 5 Use case: elevators 20 January 2020 * Segment Coordinator 1 0 S P E m ix in g s e g m e n t SC* Landing door n o d e Landing door n o d e Landing door n o d e Landing door n o d e Front view dstub dnode dnode >> dstub e le v a to r s h a ft Floor 4 Floor 3 Floor 2 6 Use case: trains and buses 20 January 2020 Side and top views Car door node dstub dnode Car window node Car door node Car window node Car window node Car window node Car window node 10SPE mixing segment SC* Car door Car door Car door Car door Car window Car window Car window Car window Car window Car window Car window Car window Car window node nodenode node node nodenode Car window node nodenode node node node nodeSC* Result: each physical node can be assigned location-specific function (configuration) as SC can detect each node’s physical location through ranging.