BPL Monitor Network Configuration

Summary

If you’re an expert in networking, you can follow the below 4 TLDR instructions and configure the Monitors Accordingly

• Identify the IP, subnet mask, and default gateway by using ipconfig in command prompt

• Once the network is identified, ping suitable IP addresses for the BPL monitors and make sure there is no response to ping for that IP before assigning the IP to each of the monitors.

• Assign IPs to the monitors, update the provided Google Sheet with the details[Bed Number, IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway IP, MAC Number]

• You can request the 10BedICU Coordinator for confirmation.

• Once you receive the confirmation from the Co-ordinator, you can configure the beds in the CNS software as per the BPL Documentation as well

Instructions

1. Press Windows Key ( ⊞ ) + R

2. Type command cmd
3. Type command ipconfig
4. From this result, we can identify the LAN Network

5. You can see the IP address, Subnet Mask, and Gateway IP address.

6. From the above information, identify the network address range In this screenshot, we can see that the IP Address is 192.168.0.145 and the available IP range is 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254

7. Once you’ve identified the IP range, you can start configuring BPL monitor IPs according to the above information

8. Subnet mask and Gateway IP will be the same for the monitor configuration.

9. Start assigning IP addresses for the monitors. Check the availability of the IP by simply pinging the IP from the command prompt. Eg: ping 192.168.0.14

   
10. In the above example image, you can see that the IP is already assigned to a device and therefore not usable. You can try a different IP until you find a usable IP.

11. If this IP is usable, you will get a response like this stating that “Destination host unreachable”, this means that you can use this IP Address for the BPL Monitor.
12. After setting the IP Address on the BPL Monitor, you should restart BPL Monitor for the newly set IP to be used.

13. After you restart, you can ping the IP that you used to make sure that the monitor is now reachable over the new IP Address.

14. Once this is done, open the Google sheet for the Hospital you are configuring and fill in the details of the setup you have done. [Bed Number, IP address, Subnet Mask, Gateway IP, MAC Number]

15. Repeat Steps 9 and 14 to assign IPs for all the BPL monitors.

16. Once all the Monitors are configured, and all the IP Addresses are updated in the sheet, you can request this to be verified by the 10BedICU Co-ordinator.

17. After this, you can follow the documentation from BPL to install and set up the CNS software and then add the beds in CNS software.