Monitoring and logs
These clauses put the wireless network, the vehicles, and the fleet manager on one clock and keep the events and trends that prove what happened when a vehicle drops.
When a vehicle drops, three systems each hold part of the story: the wireless network, the vehicle, and the fleet manager. These clauses put them on a common time source, name the events the network has to keep, require the vehicle's own radio log, and turn the drift that comes before a stop into alerts a person sees.
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8.1 One clock for every log shall
Access points, controllers, switches, vehicles, and the fleet manager shall synchronize to a common time source, and the timestamps in their logs shall agree to within [Timestamp agreement between systems] ms.1
8.2 Events the network keeps shall
The wireless system shall log, per client, every association, roam, deauthentication and disassociation with its reason code, every authentication failure, every radar event, and every channel or power change, each with time, access point, and channel, and shall keep the logs for at least [Log retention] days.
8.3 Client-side logs from the vehicle shall
The maker of [Vehicle or machine] shall make the vehicle radio's own logs available, including roam attempts, roam failures, and the sender and reason code of each deauthentication, with millisecond timestamps.
8.4 Alerts on drift shall
The wireless system shall alert a named person, during production, to any radar event, any channel or power change on a control radio, any new foreign network on a control channel, channel utilization above [Channel utilization ceiling] percent, and signal or SNR on a monitored route falling below the design targets.
8.5 Trends kept per route shall
The wireless system shall keep trends of signal, SNR, retries, channel utilization, roam count, and roam duration per area and per vehicle route, so slow drift can be compared with the acceptance baseline.
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Built from 7 sources: 2 standards bodies and labs, 1 protocol owner or alliance, 1 research paper or thesis and 3 vendor documents. Researched and drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and approved by Ben Rutter on . How pages are made
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Ben Rutter. "Monitoring and logs." OT Wireless, published October 6, 2026, updated October 5, 2026. https://otwireless.com/clauses/monitoring-and-logs/
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Rutter, B. (2026, October 6). Monitoring and logs. OT Wireless. https://otwireless.com/clauses/monitoring-and-logs/
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@misc{rutter2026monitoringandlogs,
author = {Rutter, Ben},
title = {{Monitoring and logs}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://otwireless.com/clauses/monitoring-and-logs/}},
organization = {OT Wireless},
}