Employing Dusun IoT Gateway to Build Dependable Home Energy Management Solutions

Some challenges are often encountered during the construction of smart apartment solutions, such as multiple protocol interoperability and the reliability to function normally under various anomalous circumstances.

Dusun IoT provides high-performance IoT gateway devices and unique customized service to help a smart home solution brand expand its product line and accomplish the personalized needs of its BMS solution customers. Continue to read and know how Dusun IoT made the brand's project progress very well and received wide acclaim.

"Dusun IoT is our choice because of its professionalism, flexibility, and customization. Since we established a cooperative relationship with Dusun IoT, we have seen continuous development, continuous improvement, and updating of products, which has strengthened our confidence to cooperate with it. Thanks to its versatility, Dusun IoT allows us to develop solutions for our clients."

Background and Requirement

Mainly for Home Energy Monitoring

This smart home solution provider is committed to delivering a comprehensive smart home automation solution that not only keeps users informed about their energy usage but also helps them take timely measures to reduce energy waste.

To achieve this goal, the company is searching for smart IoT gateways that can seamlessly integrate with various smart home appliances available in the market. This device will enable users to monitor real-time power consumption and take automated actions or control their appliances remotely via a mobile app.

Challenges

How to connect and manage various wireless smart devices with different protocols?

With the rapid development of IoT technology, there are more and more smart devices that improve people's quality of life. However, there are various IoT protocols utilized in different wireless smart devices, such as ZigBee, Z-Wave, LoRa, and others.

Consequently, the most significant challenge in setting up a smart home solution is finding a smart home gateway that can connect smart devices with different IoT protocols for unified management.

How to ensure the normal operation of the device under various abnormal conditions?
From time to time, various unpredictable problems occur, such as network errors or power outages, which may affect the normal operation of the smart home automation system or even cause the entire system to stop working.

A set of robust hardware devices that can operate against many abnormal conditions is a prerequisite for a 7/24 smart home system.

Solutions

Quick & Easy Connection + Local Linkage & Data Storage
Robust Hardware Performance
DSGW-210 IoT gateway hardware has powerful performance in data processing, transmission, and local storage. It adopts a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU and has 2GB RAM, 32GB ROM, and 128GB SD card to deal with complicated and data-intensive processes and provide dependable and effective performance.

Multiple Wireless Protocols
Besides, DSGW-210 offers flexible wireless connection and linkage solutions. It supports Bluetooth 5.2, Zigbee 3.0, and Z-Wave simultaneously, making it easy to connect with a variety of wireless IoT peripherals with minimal code development.

Pre-certification
In addition, DSGW-210 has passed various reliability tests and successfully obtained several professional certifications, including FCC, CE, RoHS, IC, RCM, and CB, which can greatly reduce the customer's project development risk and shorten the R&D cycle.

How Does DSGW-210 Work in Home Energy Monitoring?

The integration of multiple systems, appliances, and gadgets into a house is a key component of an IoT-based home energy monitoring system that aims to create a connected and intelligent living space. Home electrical devices like thermostats, smart meters, smart switch, and dimmers may all be connected to and remotely managed through a universal Zigbee hub or smartphone app in an IoT-based smart home. By managing and automating many areas of their house, homeowners may improve convenience, energy efficiency, comfort, and security.

IoT integration enables smart dwellings to control energy more effectively. Smart lighting systems may automatically switch off lights in vacant rooms, while smart thermostats can change temperature settings based on occupant' presence. These energy-saving features aid in lowering energy use and electricity costs.

Reliable Home Energy Monitoring

Abundant backup mechanisms to ensure that the system can still work properly even in many abnormal conditions.

· Support LAN + Wi-Fi + 4G simultaneously, and able to switch automatically to work against network failure.

·  With a built-in rechargeable lithium battery, the gateway device could still work for a while in case of a power outage.

·  The data can be stored locally even if all channels are disconnected, and will be transferred to the cloud as soon as the gateway is reconnected to the Internet.

·  The logic program settings are stored locally and support the triggering of linkage solutions even if the network and main power supply are interrupted at the same time.

Result & Influence

Dusun IoT not only provides ready-made development materials (SDK, QSG, tools, etc.), but also high-quality real-time technical support that helps this smart home solution provider successfully connect and manage more than 90% of smart wireless devices with minimal code management.

Finally, Our customer purchased more than 2,000 edge computing IoT gateways and considered them as core components of its smart home application solution, which has been promoted and sold in Hungary and Europe and plays a major role in improving energy efficiency and adding new vitality to environmental protection.