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Accounts & Trial Access

Get a KONA Core account or start a trial, sign in for the first time, reset your password and reach the main page.

Adaptive Data Rate (ADR)

What Adaptive Data Rate does, how KONA Core applies it to your devices, which ADR settings you can change, and when to disable it.

Alarm Notifications

Add email, SMS or MQTT notifications to an alarm rule, choose the recipients, use references in the message and test the notification.

Alarms & Events Reference

Every event name KONA Core can record, with its source, type, severity where confirmed, what it reports and what to do.

Architecture Overview

The main parts of KONA Core, how gateways connect, and where payload converters and integrations sit between the device and your system.

Bulk Gateway Commissioning

Add many gateways to a gateway group at once from a CSV file, with their names, GW-IDs, MQTT credentials and locations.

Configure Gateway Group Alarm Rules

Add an alarm rule to a gateway group, choose the gateway triggers, filter gateway alarms and faults by severity and state, add a notification and test the rule.

Configure Gateways

Change a gateway's settings in KONA Core and send configurations to one gateway, a gateway group or several gateways at once, then check that they are synced.

Device Activation & Classes

How LoRaWAN devices join KONA Core with OTAA or ABP, and how device classes A, B and C decide when a device can receive downlinks.

Entity Model

The entities of KONA Core, from tenants and users to gateways, applications, devices and alarm rules, how they relate and in which order to create them.

Events & Alarms

How KONA Core records events for gateways, devices and integrations, how an alarm is raised and cleared, and where you see and forward them.

Events over MQTT

Publish KONA Core alarm events to your own MQTT broker with an MQTT notification in an alarm rule, and receive them with an MQTT client.

Gateway Commands & Management

Send commands such as Reboot or Ping to a KONA gateway from KONA Core, read the command output, and find the other remote management tabs.

Gateway Logs

Find the messages your gateways exchange with KONA Core on the Gateway logs page, filter them, and copy the details to send to support.

Glossary

Definitions of LoRaWAN and KONA Core terms used in this documentation.

Manage Customers & Sub-Customers

Create Customers and Sub-Customers in KONA Core, give each one a subscription plan and administrators, share gateway groups and applications, and delete them.

Manage Gateway Groups

Create gateway groups, add, move and remove their gateways, and delete groups you no longer need.

Manage Gateway Models

Create, edit and delete gateway models, the gateway types with a frequency band that every gateway in KONA Core refers to.

Manage Subscriptions

Create Customer Subscription Plans in KONA Core, assign a plan to a Customer, change it, and know what happens when the new limits are lower than the usage.

Manage Users

Add users to KONA Core, activate them, change their role, and remove access with Permanently disable or Delete.

Monitor Gateways

Check the health of your gateways in KONA Core: the Online and Activity status, the gateway statistics, the dashboard and the gateway's events.

Onboard a KONA Gateway via MQTT

Add a TEKTELIC KONA gateway to KONA Core, set its MQTT credentials, point the gateway to KONA Core and check that it shows Online and Active.

Overview

See which ideas the Concepts section explains and which concept to read before each group of guides.

Regions & Frequency Plans

What a LoRaWAN frequency plan is, which regional plans KONA Core gateway models support, and why your gateways and devices must use the same plan.

Security & Keys

What the LoRaWAN AppKey, NwkSKey and AppSKey protect, how KONA Core handles device keys, gateway credentials and API tokens, and how to keep them safe.

Subscription Plans & Limits

How Provider and Customer subscription plans cap the gateways, Customers, Sub-Customers, applications, devices and integrations you can create in KONA Core.

Tenancy Model

How the System, Provider, Customer and Sub-Customer levels of KONA Core divide ownership, visibility and subscription limits.

Upgrade Gateway Firmware

Upgrade the BSP firmware of KONA gateways from KONA Core, for one gateway or a whole gateway group, and track the upgrade status.

Uplink & Downlink Data Flow

The path of an uplink to your integration and of a downlink back to the device, with the checks, queues and normal waiting times.

Usage Statistics & Reports

Check how many gateways, devices and Sub-Customers you use in KONA Core, read converter statistics by day and month, and get usage over time and reports through the API.

User Activity Log

Find who changed what in KONA Core: what the User Activity Log records, how to filter it, and how to export it as a CSV file.

Users, Roles & Permissions

The administrator and user roles at each KONA Core tenant level, what each role can open and change, and how access passes down the hierarchy.

Work with Alarms

Find, filter and read alarms on the Alarms page, change the time window, see severities and states, and export the list to a CSV file.