The Nwave approach is “all sensors must be positioned before using”. While a sensor is not positioned you can only see raw messages getting from it. It looks like a sentence of hexadecimal numbers. It is not too useful.
But when you set a sensor position, you open for using the following features:
Device Monitoring - for getting information about sensor health;
Occupancy - for monitoring which allows you to know which sensors are vacant and which are not;
HTTP outgoing calls - for getting occupancy data using HTTP triggers about sensor occupancy states changes;
https://nwaveio.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=1864761385
Even if you make your first steps in Nwave Console using Test Devices, you should set their positions before using them.
How To set sensor position
Nwave provides a special tool for sensor positions management. It is called SPlace. You have two types of SPlace using:
Web-version on http://splace.nwave.io/
Android App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.nwave.splacing2
Installing SPlace for Android
Android App is much more functional than Web Version. With It, you are able to set up and calibrate sensors using Bluetooth. But you need to install Nwave Device Management App first.
Position setting
As you can see in the Nwave ecosystem document, Nwave stores sensors' positions in the hierarchy. Before setting a sensor position, you need to create or select an existing project, zone, level and group. Level and group may be created right now in the SPlace App, but project and zone must be registered using Nwave Console.
Using SPlace you can set positions sensor by sensor, or set positions for a Zone of sensors with one step. Both scenarios are considered in our Video Tutorial: