Preface
Purpose and Scope
This manual provides information and guidance to all personnel who are involved with and use Rajant
Corporation’s BreadCrumb ES1-5050CS.
This manual begins with an introduction to the BreadCrumb Kinetic Mesh Network. It then characterizes
the features of the BreadCrumb ES1-5050CS. Finally, it describes common deployment scenarios and pro-
vides concise step-by-step instructions for each scenario.
Note
Note
Throughout this document, unless otherwise stated, the terms ES1-5050CS and BreadCrumb are used
Throughout this document, unless otherwise stated, the terms ES1-5050CS and BreadCrumb are used
to refer to Rajant BreadCrumb ES1-5050CS.
to refer to Rajant BreadCrumb ES1-5050CS.
How to Use This Guide
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Feedback Welcome
The user of this manual is encouraged to submit comments and recommended changes to improve this
manual and all Rajant products. Please send your feedback to feedback@rajant.com. Please be sure to
include the version and revision number of the manual or product you are using as well as the relevant
document section numbers if appropriate.
Related Documentation
For additional information, refer to these documents:
BC|Commander® Version 11 User Guide: This document describes how to use the BC|Commander
application to configure and monitor BreadCrumbs.
BreadCrumb® Video Guide
Range Troubleshooting Guide
BreadCrumb RF Guide
BreadCrumb® Security Technical Brief
These documents are available in the support section of Rajant’s website at http://www.rajant.com.
Note About Shared Guide Content
Rajant BreadCrumb models have some differences in hardware and soware features. Rajant hardware
and soware product guides include some general content that is shared between guides and may in-
clude features or settings not found in every model. The following table summarizes the main differences
between several standard BreadCrumb models.
Feature LX5 ME4/KM3 ES1 JR3 SlipStream
Peregrine/
Hawk
Wireless
Transceivers
3-4 2 2 1 0
4
(Peregrine)
/2 (Hawk)
Ethernet 2x 1000 1x 1000, 1x 100
1x
1000
1x 100
2x
100/1000
2x
10/100/1000
auto MDIX