At present, there are many manufacturers of 5G industrial CPE/5G industrial gateways in the world, but the quality and price are uneven. Many companies do not fully consider the environment of the project application site when purchasing, resulting in various unstable phenomena during use, increasing unnecessary maintenance costs.
Here are a few common mistakes that can be made in the purchasing process:
1. Equipment does not work properly in extreme outdoor environments
In some areas, the lowest temperature in winter is tens of degrees below zero, while in some areas the outdoor temperature is very high in summer. In these cases, it will be found that the commercial gateways purchased online often have problems during use, and the service life will be greatly reduced due to salt-alkali, temperature, static electricity and other reasons. The industrial-grade gateway can operate stably in harsh field environments, and the industrial-grade design ensures that its internal devices will not be affected by the environment and rapidly age.
2. The power supply is not guaranteed, the voltage fluctuates greatly, and the equipment is often shut down or damaged
Although household electricity voltage is very stable, in many industrial sites, because the power supply voltage cannot be fully guaranteed, the voltage fluctuates greatly. For example, 220V AC directly drops to 100V, and 24V DC fluctuates between 12 and 48V. In this case the equipment is prone to downtime or damage. Therefore, it is necessary to choose gateway products with wide voltage input. After all, in industrial sites, even one minute of downtime will cause great economic losses.
3. The virtual serial port function has high end-to-end data transmission delay, resulting in untimely data collection
Many companies have purchased equipment from non-professional manufacturers. After configuration and installation, they found that when the virtual serial port function is used, the data collected from the serial port to Ethernet is often not collected in time, or even data is lost, causing impact and loss on field applications. This problem occurs because the data stays in the Ethernet protocol stack for too long and cannot achieve low-latency end-to-end transmission. In the final analysis, the serial server manufacturers have insufficient technical accumulation in product software. These problems are very fatal in some factory automation applications.
The following recommends a stable and secure 5G industrial CPE/5G industrial gateway – Alotcer Gigabit Router AR7091 is an industrial IoT gateway/CPE developed based on 5G/4G/3G/2G, WIFI, virtual private network and other technologies. The product adopts high-performance industrial-grade 32-bit communication processor and industrial-grade wireless module, and takes embedded operating system as the software support platform, and supports 1 Gigabit Ethernet WAN, 4 Gigabit Ethernet LAN, 1 RS232/ RS485 (optional) interface and 2.4G/5.8G WIFI interface can connect serial devices, Ethernet devices and WIFI devices at the same time, which can meet the needs of industrial field communication.
Alotcer Gigabit Router AR7091 5G Industrial IoT Gateway/CPE
● 5G full Netcom, Gigabit Ethernet port, 2.4/5G dual-band WIFI, optional dual-mode 5G dual-card dual standby
● Provide python environment to meet independent secondary development application requirements, flexible expansion
● Support MQTT protocol and mainstream IoT platforms such as Huawei/Alibaba/Telecom/Mobile
● Meet the conversion between industrial control OPCUA protocol and MODBUS protocol
● Powerful VPN networking functions, PPTP, L2TP, OPENVPN, IPSEC, GRE, GRETAP
● Advanced security protection, support SPI firewall, VPN traversal, access control, URL filtering, VLAN and other functions
● Wired + dual-mode 5G + VRRP three-level link hot backup, financial-grade communication link redundancy design
● Support special applications such as State Grid public-private integration, hardware encryption, network encryption, etc.
● High-performance power-level system solution, providing strong edge computing power, the actual measurement meets the -40~+80ºC application scenario
● Powerful cloud management platform and remote operation and maintenance system make project operation easy and fast
