Installing the Advanced Flow solution – Consibio Customer Portal

1. Activate Deploy Mode

The first thing to do when arriving on the site of installation is to activate Deploy Mode on the Logger:

Press “Restart” shortly
Hold “Deploy Mode” for approximately 5s.
When the LEDs flash quickly one at a time in a repeating pattern, Deploy mode is activated.

For the next 1 hour, the device will make a measurement every 30s and transmit every 5mins.
After 1 hour, it will revert to the transmission and measurement interval configured in Consibio Cloud.

We activate this as the first step to make the Logger start connecting immediately, where it will scan the local network operators and select the most optimal one. On the first attempt, this can take some minutes.

2. Mounting instructions

2.1 Preferred installation: At the inlet

The preferred installation is to mount the fixture above the inflow:

In this configuration, the surface velocity radar is mounted on the underside of the bracket to give a 45° angle. The surface velocity radar mount is attached to the bracket with the hand-operated locknut on the top:

When mounting it, be sure to ensure that the surface velocity radar is pointing into the water stream:

Installation guidelines

When installing the bracket, try to respect as many of the guidelines below as possible in prioritised order. On some specific sites, the geometry of the manhole does not allow all guidelines to be respected at once, so focus on the ones with highest priority.

The bracket should be placed sufficiently low, such that hte line of sight of the velocity radar should point into the water stream and not the wall.
The bracket should be completely level, so the level radar's line of sight is perpendicular to the water surface.
The bottom of the level radar should be at least 3 ft above the highest expected water surface to provide a stable reading.
The bottom of the bracket should be placed as close as possible to the perimeter of the pipe hole to provide the best field of view for the velocity radar (while respecting the other installation guidelines. If possible, place the bottom of the bracket panel on the wall approx. 5 cm (2 inches) above the top of the inlet pipe hole:

It is possible to flip the orientation of the velocity radar and the bracket, such that it is placed on the wall with the outlet (see section 2.2 below). If more guidelines can be respected by doing so, switch to this alternative installation method.

2.2 Alternative installation: At the outlet pointing towards the inlet

If the geometries of the specific manhole does not allow you to install it above the inlet as shown above, you can move the velocity radar mount to the top of the bracket as shown below.
Here, the placement of the level radar and the velocity radar is swapped:

In this configuration, the bracket would be installed above the outlet, pointing towards the inlet:

2.3 Record installation dimensions

After installing the bracket with the level and velocity radar you should measure the exact installation height - ie. the distance from the bottom of the level sensor to the bottom of the invert in the channel (dimension A below). Also you would need to measure or look up the pipe diameter (dimension D):