Kontakt Portal Beam Starter Kit User manual

Setup Guide
Portal Beam
Starter Kit

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Getting Started 3
What you’ll need 3
Setup at a glance 5
How to Set Up Your Kit 6
1 - Create a Kio Cloud account & claim your kit 6
2 - Set up your Kio Cloud Smart Location 7
3 - Download the Kio Setup Manager app 11
4 - Set up & connect your devices to Kio Cloud 12
Release Notes 15
Support 16
Table of Contents

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Thank you for purchasing a Portal Beam Starter Kit. You can now experience and test indoor IoT
use cases designed to quantify buildings at a single-room resolution.
This guide will show you the steps to set up both your new hardware kit, as well as a Kio Cloud
account where you can create a location to see a map of your Kio RTLS devices in action!
What you’ll need
Getting Started
• Computer with an internet connection
• Apple or Android mobile device (iOS 10.3 or later | Android 5.0 or later)
• Floor plan image file, sometimes called an indoor map (either a JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF up to 800 kB).
Example of a floor plan image

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• Your Portal Beam Starter Kit, including your Order ID. You can find your Order ID on your
Quick Start Guide and also on the kit box.
Important
If you don’t have the Order ID, contact our support team at [e-mail] and
they’ll get it to you.

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1. Create a Kio Cloud Account
& Claim Your Kit
3. Log In to Kio Devices
Mobile App
2. Set Up Your Smart
Location & Map
4. Connect Devices
to Kio Cloud
Setup at a glance
1. Create a Kio Cloud account & claim your kit
2. Set up your Kio Cloud Smart Location
3. Download the Kio Setup Manager app Installer
4. Connect your devices to Kio Cloud

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How to Set Up Your Kit
1 - Create a Kio Cloud account & claim your kit
1. From a web browser, go to the link provided on the Quick Start Guide.
kontakt.io/claimbeam
2. Create your Kio Cloud account. If you already have an account, simply log in.
3. Check your email to activate your Kio Cloud account.
4. Log in to Kio Cloud and enter your Order ID. You can find your Order ID on your
Quick Start Guide and also on the kit box.
Note: Order ID is case-sensitive.
Once your devices are claimed,
they’re automatically added to
your Kio Cloud account.

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2 - Set up your Kio Cloud Smart Location
1. Log in to your Kio Cloud account and select Smart Location.
What is a Smart Location? It represents where your Portal Beam Kit devices are physically located
- either in your home or office. For your setup, you will add a campus, a building and floor, and a
floor space.
Be sure to watch the short video to learn how to set up your Smart Location.
2. From the upper-right corner, click ADD CAMPUS (this will be your home or office location)
> enter the Address, Name, and Description > click SAVE.

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3. Click ADD BUILDING > enter the building information (for your setup, this will also be your home
or office location) > click SAVE.
4. Select Add first floor here > enter the floor information and select + to upload the floor plan
image file > click CONTINUE.

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5. Select the Floor you just added > click EDIT.
You’ll set the one-time Reference Point and Floor Outline to scale the floor plan.
Set the Reference Points: click SET POINTS > set POINT A by clicking on the first reference point on
the floor plan (purple X appears) > set POINT B by clicking on the second reference point > enter
the distance between the two reference points > click **NEXT**.
Set the Floor Outline: select DRAW FLOOR OUTLINE > select either the rectangle or polygon tool
> hold down your mouse pointer over the start point and release - then drag the points to outline
the floor plan (green line appears around the floor outline) > click SAVE AND CONTINUE.

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5. Define the Space where your Portal Beam and Portal Light will be installed. Select either of
the drawing tools > draw the perimeter of the space > select the space type - Room >
enter the Name only > click SAVE > from the upper-right corner, click FINISH CONFIGURATION.
Note: For your setup, please skip adding your Portal Beam and Portal Light (Gateway) to the floor space.
During the next step, you will add them to your room with the Kio Setup Manager app.