SOPASair Walkthrough

This page describes the multiScan200 web interface and the settings in each view. Use it to commission the sensor before you automate the configuration through the API. To try the interface without a device, open it in the Virtual Sensor Lab.

Home

The Home page gives you the current device status, network identity, firmware version, and an overview of the sensor's operating state. It is usually the first screen you see after logging in and is the quickest place to confirm that the unit is online and healthy before you start changing configuration or application settings.

Home page overview on a live multiScan270 device.

The status bar at the top shows the LED indicator, the device connection status and the measurement status. The toolbar next to it holds Save permanently, the login panel, the language switch and the global help (?). The help includes a Getting started tour that walks through the most important commissioning steps.

Changes take effect immediately but are held in volatile memory. Click Save permanently in the toolbar to store the parameter set in the device and in the cloning memory of the system plug. Unsaved changes are lost at the next power cycle.

For a monitoring display without configuration access, open http://192.168.0.1/#/?fullscreen=.

Status tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Device information tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Status of inputs tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Status of outputs tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Detection history statistics tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

The LED indicator mirrors the four status LEDs on the housing. LED1 and LED3 show the same colour, as do LED2 and LED4.

Status LED combinations and their meanings on the multiScan270.

LED1/LED3	LED2/LED4	Meaning
Red	Red	Booting, parameterising or firmware update
–	–	Off
Red, flashing fast	Red, flashing fast	Fatal error
Red, flashing slowly	Red, flashing slowly	Recoverable error
Green	Green	Ready, no object detected in configured fields
–	Green	Ready, no fields configured
Red	Yellow	Standby / power saving
Green	Yellow, flashing	Warning
Yellow	Green, flashing	Restart after time or digital input
Green	Yellow, flashing	Contamination warning
Red, flashing	Yellow, flashing	Contamination error
Green, flashing	Red, flashing	Alignment mode
Green, yellow, red	Green, yellow, red	Identify device (Find device)
Red	Red and yellow, flashing	Teach-in environment
Yellow	Green	Object detected

illuminated · flashing · – off

The LEDs are only an additional visual aid. Switching them off in the web interface does not affect diagnostics over Ethernet or the digital I/Os.

Configuration

Choose the scan configuration and the core measurement behaviour. Resolution, frequency, and range trade off against each other.

The live scan on the left updates as you change the configuration, which is the quickest way to judge a setting.

Basic Settings

Basic Settings controls the scan configuration used by the sensor. The settings are shown on the right; the live scan on the left shows the effect of the selected frequency, angular resolution, and other settings immediately. Use this view to check coverage and measurement behaviour while commissioning.

Basic settings tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

The multiScan270 offers the following scan configurations. The vertical field of view is always 45° (about +22.5° to −22.5°). Configurations 10 to 12 reach their horizontal resolution in interlaced mode, where consecutive scans are offset in angle and combined. The ambient-light image is passively captured by the same receiver used for LiDAR, synchronized with the laser measurement, and has the same scan frequency and horizontal resolution as the configured laser measurement.

multiScan270 scan configurations, angular resolutions, layer counts, ambient-image dimensions, and scan frequencies.

No.	Use case	FoV (H)	Resolution (H × V)	Layers	Ambient image (pixels, columns × rows)	Frequency
1	Default	276°	0.47° × 0.47°	96	592 × 96	20 Hz
2	Less bandwidth, more range	276°	0.47° × 0.94°	48	592 × 48	20 Hz
3	Highest vertical resolution	276°	0.47° × 0.23°	192	592 × 192	20 Hz
4	Full 360° view	360°	0.47° × 0.47°	96	773 × 96	10 Hz
10	High horizontal resolution	276°	0.23° × 0.47°	96	1184 × 96	20 Hz, 2× interlaced
11	High H and V resolution	276°	0.23° × 0.23°	192	1184 × 192	20 Hz, 2× interlaced
12	Highest H and V resolution	276°	0.12° × 0.23°	192	2369 × 192	20 Hz, 4× interlaced
20	Up to +55 °C	190°	0.47° × 0.47°	96	408 × 96	20 Hz
21	Up to +60 °C	120°	0.47° × 0.47°	96	285 × 96	20 Hz

• Configurations 20 and 21 reduce the horizontal field of view so that the device can operate at higher ambient temperatures (up to +55 °C and +60 °C).
• Ambient image: a passive, narrow-band image around 905 nm from the LiDAR receiver, not a camera image. Brightness can differ from what you see; for example, LED-lit areas may look dark. The table shows the image size that matches the point cloud. The maximum image size is 592 × 192 px (configurations 1 to 3), 773 × 192 (4), 1184 × 192 (10 and 11), 2369 × 192 (12), 408 × 192 (20), and 285 × 192 (21).
• Interlaced configurations (10 to 12): 10 and 11 combine 2 scans (about 100 ms at 20 Hz), 12 combines 4 (about 200 ms). This is the acquisition span, not the output latency. Because the points of one frame are captured at different times, moving objects can appear offset; for moving scenes, validate the result or use a non-interlaced configuration. The mean filter has no effect, and the particle filter should be checked because it compares measurements at different angles.
• Small objects must be hit repeatedly for reliable measurement. Objects below the minimum object size may need a stationary sensor and target.

Date and system time tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Date and system time

The time base can be set using various methods:

• Explicitly setting the time with date, time
• Transferring the time from the computer used
• Via an external NTP server (Network Time Protocol) that is accessible in the network.
• Via an external PTP (Precision Time Protocol) master that is accessible in the network.

NTP uses UDP port 123 and PTP uses UDP ports 319/320. Both are inactive by default. Use PTP when point clouds must be fused with other sensors, because it gives the tightest synchronisation. For background and setup, see Time synchronization.

Filter

Clean up the scan before it leaves the sensor by suppressing extra echoes, artefacts and airborne particles.

Example filter settings in the multiScan270 web interface. Select parameters according to the requirements of each application.

Filters can be combined freely. Active filters run one after another, each on the result of the previous one, in this order: echo filter, particle filter, interval filter, blooming filter, angle-range filter. Keep in mind:

• Filters apply to both measurement data output and field evaluation. Filtered values cannot be converted back into the original measurements.
• Each active filter adds processing time and therefore output latency. The particle filter adds a delay of one scan.
• Field evaluation always uses a single echo. If the echo filter is set to All echoes, field evaluation uses the first echo.
• In interlaced scan configurations (10 to 12), the precision mode has no effect, and the particle filter compares measurements from different angular positions. Check that it still works as intended in your application.

The signal path through the filters:

flowchart LR
    echo([Echo]) --> core[Measurement core]
    core --> echofilter[Echo filter]
    echofilter --> particle[Particle filter]
    particle --> interval[Interval filter]
    interval --> blooming[Blooming filter]
    blooming --> angle[Angle-range filter]
    angle --> output[Measurement data output]
    angle --> fieldeval[Field evaluation]

Filter processing order for measurement data output and field evaluation.

The precision mode is the multiScan200 version of the mean filter.

For detailed behavior and examples, see Filter details.

Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU)

Use the IMU view to inspect the sensor's current orientation and acceleration.

Live capture from a multiScan270's web interface.

Inertial measuring unit (IMU) tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

The IMU view displays the yaw, pitch, and roll angles in degrees, together with the measured acceleration on the X, Y, and Z axes in meters per second squared.

The IMU samples at 100 Hz. It sits at X = −17 mm and Y = +23.5 mm relative to the optical origin, so apply this offset when you fuse IMU data with the point cloud. IMU data is streamed separately in Compact format on TCP port 2117, or as the imu topic over Native ROS 2.

Orientation follows DIN ISO 8855 with a right-handed coordinate system. X is the main viewing direction, and Z points to the top of the device. Measurement data is always output in the device coordinate system. Mounting settings describe the sensor pose in the world coordinate system; without them, both systems are identical.

Contamination Indication

Monitor the optics cover for dirt and get a warning before measurement quality drops.

Contamination indication tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

A contamination warning makes LED2/LED4 flash yellow while LED1/LED3 stay green. A contamination error makes LED1/LED3 flash red and LED2/LED4 flash yellow. The contamination state is also available as secondary data, so a host can react before measurement quality drops.

If the measurement data shows anomalies, clean the optics cover first:

1. If possible, disconnect the power supply.
2. Clean the optics cover with a clean, damp, lint-free cloth and a mild, antistatic plastic cleaner. Do not use pointed objects.
3. Remove dust from the housing with a soft brush.

If the optics cover is scratched or damaged, take the device out of operation and have it repaired by SICK.

Connection Options

Give the sensor its permanent Ethernet identity so it fits your network.

Ethernet tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

The factory default IP address is 192.168.0.1. The Ethernet link runs at 1 Gbit/s. Keep this in mind for high-resolution scan configurations.

• After changing the static IP address, restart the device so that Native ROS 2 topics are published correctly.
• The addressing mode, IP address, subnet mask, default gateway and device name are also cloned to the system plug when you save permanently. A replacement device on the same system plug starts with the same network identity.

Inputs and Outputs

Configure the multifunction I/O ports and map field-evaluation results and device states to physical outputs.

Live capture from a multiScan270's web interface.

System plug tile on the port configuration page, captured live from a multiScan270.

The device has up to eight multifunction ports, depending on the mounted system plug. Each port can be configured as an input, with a debounce time, or as an output in push-pull, NPN, or PNP mode. For the electrical values, see the product page on sick.com.

Application

Data Output

Decide what measurement data leaves the sensor and how it is streamed to your system.

Measurement data output tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Data reduction tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Angular range filter tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

For detailed filter behavior, see Filter details.

Scan data structure: at each horizontal angle step (slot M−1, M, M+1, …), the sensor measures one vertical column with layers 1 to N. The scan configuration sets the number of layers and the angle between slots.

The device streams measurement data in these ways:

Measurement and IMU data outputs, transports, and payloads on the multiScan270.

Output	Transport	Content
Compact	TCP 2115 (outgoing)	Distance and RSSI, optional ambient light (telegram type 6)
Compact	TCP 2116 (outgoing)	Ambient light only (telegram type 3)
Compact IMU	TCP 2117 (outgoing)	IMU data at 100 Hz (telegram type 7)
Native ROS 2	DDS over UDP 7400–65399	PointCloud2, LaserScan, ambient_light and imu topics

All outputs are disabled by default. Compact uses TCP to avoid data loss. Measurement data output responds within 100 ms or less, plus network delay from cables and switches. For each echo, the device also outputs a relative signal strength indicator (RSSI). Its representation depends on the output format: Compact carries an unsigned 16-bit value, while Native ROS 2 PointCloud2 intensity is normalized to 0.0–1.0 and identifies reflectors through the properties bit mask. Native ROS 2 LaserScan and MultiEchoLaserScan intensity uses 0.0–1.0 for natural targets and 1.05 for detected reflectors. Do not use intensity alone to determine whether a measurement is valid. See RSSI values and Native ROS 2 topics for the format-specific details.

For Native ROS 2, use CycloneDDS as the ROS middleware and subscribe only to the topics you need, because subscribed topics are published even when they contain no points. Parameterisation still runs over REST or CoLa. See Compact format and Native ROS 2.

Field Evaluation

Configure monitored volumes and let the sensor evaluate incoming 3D scan points on the device.

Live capture from a multiScan270's web interface.

Field evaluation tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

Define a field's polygonal contour and its lower and upper Z limits to form a monitored volume in the sensor coordinate system. The sensor evaluates points inside that volume using the configured detection criteria. Evaluation groups organize the fields and control their activation; results can be combined with logic and mapped to outputs.

• Up to 48 fields can be configured, and up to 20 can be active at the same time.
• A group is activated by digital inputs, by telegram, or is always active. Each field in a group has its own evaluation settings.
• The result can be linked to a switching output and combined with other signals using logic such as AND, OR and XOR.
• Typical uses are collision protection, object protection and access monitoring.

Evaluation runs after every scan cycle, and the field status is output within 175 ms or less. The latency also depends on where and when an object enters the field relative to the laser position, and on the number of active fields, the digital outputs, the filters and measurement data streaming.

Only points that fall inside an active field add system load, but many active fields can still cause performance problems. If you need more fields at once, reduce the load by disabling the GUI live view, unused data outputs or filters. Test with your actual application.

For programmatic access, see Field evaluation and distance API.

Diagnostics

Overview

Operating information tile, captured live from a multiScan270.

The device logs events continuously. Logging cannot be switched off; when the log memory is full, the oldest entries are overwritten. Download the diagnostic file from Diagnostics and attach it to any support request, together with the type code and serial number from the type label.

Common device and web-interface symptoms and recommended diagnostic actions.

Symptom	Action
Both LEDs flash red	Device error. Read the error code in the web interface and fix the cause.
All LEDs flash red	The device may not detect the system plug. Check that it is mounted, clean and dry.
All LEDs stay red at start-up	Check the power supply; it may not deliver enough current or voltage for motor start.
All LEDs are off	Check the power supply, and check whether the LEDs were switched off in the interface.
The loading screen stays on	Reconnect. If that does not help, restart the device.
The web interface does not open	Check the IP addresses of the device and network adapter, for example with device search.
Measurement data shows anomalies	Clean the optics cover.

Cybersecurity

Live capture from a multiScan270's web interface.

Enable and disable network services here. Disable every service you do not need.

Network services, device ports, and default activation states on the multiScan270.

Service	Purpose	Protocol and port (device)	Default
HTTP/REST	Configuration, data	TCP 80	Enabled
HTTPS	Configuration, data	TCP 443	Enabled
SOPAS (CoLa 2)	Configuration, data	TCP 2122	Disabled
SOPAS (CoLa A/B)	Configuration, data	TCP 2111/2112	Disabled
NTP	Time synchronisation	UDP 123	Inactive
PTP	Time synchronisation	UDP 319/320	Inactive
UDP device search	Device discovery	UDP 30718	Enabled
Compact	Measurement data	TCP 2115/2116	Disabled
Compact IMU	IMU data	TCP 2117	Disabled
Native ROS 2	Measurement data	UDP 7400–65399	Disabled

For the full multiScan270 network-services matrix, including interfaces, communication direction, and peer ports, see Cybersecurity: multiScan270 network services.

Change the default passwords at first commissioning. Only the Service user level is active on delivery; see User levels. SICK provides firmware updates to fix known vulnerabilities, but the device has no automatic update. Check for updates regularly; see Firmware update and SICK PSIRT for security advisories.

Detection History

Live capture from a multiScan270's web interface.

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