Power-Line Carrier (PLC)-Based Location Awareness

For the PLC-Based Location Awareness agent to run as expected, all dependent components must meet the agent's minimum supported versions, as described below. When the agent is installed and running correctly, there are certain messaging expectations you can rely on for assistance with installing and troubleshooting. Those expectations are described in this section as well.

The following table describes the minimum supported versions for the agent's component dependencies.

Component
Agent ID	50528121
PLC-Based Location Awareness current version	0.3.6
Agent package size	860 KB
Minimum supported head-end system versions	OpenWay Collection Manager (OWCM) 5.3 SP2
	UtilityIQ 5.0.12
	Distributed Intelligence Network Adapter (DINA) 1.0.6
Minimum supported meter firmware version	5.0.186
Minimum supported AppServ version	0.0.0.0
CPU limit	2 KB
Memory limit	500 KB
Flash limit	1024 KB

The following table describes the agent's messaging expectations.

Message Expectation	Typical size	Frequency	Content
Neighbor tables' details from Location Awareness Agent	1024 bytes	Sends a message one time per month.	Binary Not alarm