What is IoT Gateways?

With the development of Internet of Things technology, IoT Gateways, as the key foundation of industrial Internet of Things, has also been used on a larger scale to interconnect equipment terminals in various industries, meet the requirements of intelligent, digital, and information-based production, operation and management of enterprises, and provide a solid foundation for the development of industrial intelligence. What do you know about IoT Gateways?

What are IoT Gateways?

IoT Gateways (Gateway), also known as network connectors and protocol converters, are commonly used in industrial projects as network connectors, which play a connecting role in configuring cloud platforms and connecting industrial equipment to achieve information upload and delivery. It is used between two systems or products with different communication protocols, data formats, or languages, or between products and cloud platforms, IoT Gateways is simply an industrial communication translator.

How IoT Gateways Work

The gateway is responsible for integrating and collecting the field data and then collecting them into IoT Gateways. IoT Gateways collate and analyze the information and record it in the control board, so as to realize remote control, remote upgrade, remote communication, and real-time monitoring of industrial equipment. 

IoT Gateways Core Features

• Information collection and transmission

IoT Gateways complete data collection by connecting to the industrial equipment control system, reading the parameter information of equipment operation in real-time, and transmits it continuously, and encrypting it to meet the needs of industrial users.

• Remote monitoring

The performance and operation status of equipment and products can be remotely monitored, predicted, and evaluated through various types of networks, and then the high-quality operation of field equipment can be realized, the average failure rate of equipment can be greatly reduced, and the reliability of product systems can be improved.

• Remote programming and debugging

By combining with the cloud platform of the industrial Internet of Things, remote equipment management, equipment status monitoring, remote programming control, and debugging can be realized.

• Remote alarm

Users can customize the alarm triggering conditions, formulate the alarm push mechanism, and push it to the corresponding personnel by means of web pages, APPs, on-site alarm lights and text messages.

IoT Gateways Features

1. Multiple communication modes and efficient transmission

2. the acquisition port is rich and can realize the router function

3. industrial and design, convenient remote maintenance

4. Flexible cloud access and efficient forwarding center

5. support a variety of communication protocols, efficient and convenient 

IoT Gateways Application Scenario

• Smart Medicine

It provides safe and reliable medical data transmission for various medical diagnostic equipment, medical robots, and telemedicine, realizes system interconnection and interoperability and solves the problems of difficult and high cost of special line construction in remote areas such as primary hospitals and islands, unsafe WiFi data transmission in hospitals and high delay of remote control.

• Smart Factory

IoT Gateways collect all kinds of data on manufacturing equipment in real time and upload them to the cloud, supporting edge data processing, remote monitoring, and early warning.

• Driverless

Access to sensor acquisition equipment throughout the vehicle body and upload data, real-time synchronous transmission of 360-degree road conditions, and vehicle movement information of the vehicle body, to achieve automatic driving, route planning, active lane change, parking space recognition, autonomous parking, remote judgment and processing control of vehicles.

• Business Networking

It provides wireless and mobile networks for supermarkets, shopping malls, enterprises, schools, and stations. It can be used immediately after inserting the card. At the same time, it can be used as a wired network interface or converted into Wi-Fi signals to quickly and conveniently realize fast Internet access. It meets the needs of a short project deployment cycle and networking at any time.