IMS - About device registration

7.1 About device registration

Why device registration

Device registration provides a detailed insight into what devices a customer has. The devices model, built year, serial numbers and more will be made visible in a central place. This takes away the administrative hurdles when calling for support. It also minimizes possible mistakes when providing service with information or details about the device.

Registered devices are visible on Barco’s IoT platform: Insights Management Suite. This platform enables complete fleet management through remote monitoring of the device parameters. For more information, see the Insights Management Suite user guide.

Registration concept

The device registration concept relies on a device identification file installed during production, which is used to register the device in the cloud and retrieve the device registration file needed to complete the setup.

The registration process goes as follows:

Obtain the unique device identification file from the device.
Upload the device identification file to the cloud, using one of the software tools Barco provides.
Install the received device registration file on the device, either automatically or manually.

For more information on how to register the device with the desired method, see the following chapters.

Registration methods

There are several methods to register the desired device. Which method to use depends on:

the available software tools,
the version of the available software (tools),
the type of device,
the model family of the device, and
the connection status of the device.

The following methods are available:

Method	Requirements	References (online)
Pulse Mobile (recommended)	Mobile device with the Pulse Mobile app Access to either the LCD or OSD of the projector or Pulse Prospector. Software Pulse 2.6 or later	See “Device registration using Pulse Mobile” in the Pulse OSD user guide or “Device registration using Pulse Mobile” in the Pulse Prospector user guide.
Pulse OSD	Access to either the LCD or OSD of the projector Software Pulse 2.0 or later	See “Device registration” in the Pulse OSD user guide.
Pulse Prospector	Computer or mobile device with access to both Pulse Prospector, as well as Insights Management Suite. Software Pulse 2.5 or later	See “Device registration” in the Pulse Prospector user guide.
Pulse Toolset	Computer with network access Pulse Toolset version 1.3 or later	See “Device registration using Pulse Toolset” in the Pulse Toolset user guide.
Projector Toolset (deprecated method)	Computer with network access to both the projector, as well as Insights Management Suite. Software Pulse 2.5 or earlier Projector Toolset version 1.20 or later.	See the Projector Toolset user guide.

About mandatory registration

Certain projector models (UDM, Njord, Hodr, etc...) that are IoT enabled, by either the factory or after being upgraded to a Pulse release that supports IoT, will have a 100 hours illumination grace period for registration. During this period the projector will function as normal. If a user continues to ignore the registration requests for more than 100 hours, then the projector will show a label Unregistered <product name> on the projected image for five minutes and permanently on the projector OSD. This notice will reappear after each start up. See product specifications on the Barco website to know if the specific projector is subject to mandatory registration.