BAG·Tower

BAG·Tower is a monitoring and prevention platform that is compatible with Teltonika-Netwokrs devices. Their main goal is to provide a complete solution to control your equipment, manage your asset fleet and its operations.

Introduction

This article contains step-by-step instructions on how to connect a Teltonika-Networks device to BAG·Tower platform.

Basic setup

1. Create a BAG·Tower account.
2. Create an asset on BAG·Tower platform.
3. Connect device to BAG·Tower platform.
4. Create a decoder for the device.

Create an account

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First of all, you will need to create your BAG·Tower account.

• Register an account on BAG·Tower.
• Go to your specified email, find the email from BAG·Tower and click on the Signup now by clicking here link.
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• In the new window enter a new password and press Send.
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• Now you should have access to BAG·Tower platform.

Create an asset

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Set up BAG·Tower asset for your Teltonika-Networks account.

• Login to your BAG·Tower account.
• In Asset Management -> Your assets press Add Asset button in Asset List section.
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• In the popup window press Create An Asset Manually button.
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• Enter your asset name and press Save button.
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• After saving the asset should appear in the Asset List.
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Connect device to BAG·Tower

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Connect Teltonika-Networks device to the created BAG·Tower asset.

• Go to the details page of the created BAG·Tower asset in Asset Management -> Your assets -> Asset List.
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• In the Asset Detail page copy the generated API Key.
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• Log in to Teltonika-Networks device, make sure the device is in Advanced mode and navigate to System -> CLI. Login using these credentials: Username - root, Password - Your set Admin password.
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• Run the following command: sh -c "$(wget -qO - https://scripts.bagtower.bag-era.fr/install_push_teltonika.sh)" '' __API_KEY__ ,with __API_KEY__ replaced by the previously copied assets API Key. After that you should see something similar to this.
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Create a decoder

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Create a BAG·Tower decoder so that BAG·Tower platform can understand information from Teltonika-Netwokrs device.

• To understand the information that is being sent from the device BAG·Tower needs to have a decoder. To configure it go to BAG·Tower platform and in Asset Management -> Your assets -> Asset List click on details of an asset with the Status Anomaly detected.
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• In the detail page click Create a Decoder button.
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• Copy the content of Teltonika decoder in the code section. You can get the latest version of Teltonika decoder from BAG·Tower page. Pick a Frame and press Test Decoder.
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• Click on Save and Attach. Choose the Asset, Tag or Group to attach this decoder to. Then click the Save button.
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• Now you should be all set and your device should now start periodically pushing information to BAG·Tower platform. Your device asset in BAG·Tower platform should now be Online and its Detail page should now show graphs with information from device. If that is not the case try repeating these steps or contacting support for more information.

References

BAG·Tower official site: https://www.getbagtower.com/en/home

BAG·Tower guide to connecting Teltonika asset: https://bagtower.tawk.help/en-us/article/connecting-teltonika-asset