Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN

Description

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• 16-channel LoRaWAN gateway
• IP67-rated for industrial environments

The Cisco^® Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN supports the LoRa^™ physical layer technology and complies with the LoRaWAN specification defined by the LoRa Alliance^™ to provide LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) wireless connectivity for low data rate, battery-powered devices and sensors. Through the unlicensed sub-GHz radio, a wide variety of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints that require low power operation or long-range transmission distances can now be connected and located more economically than ever before. Example use cases include asset tracking, water and gas metering, environmental monitoring, waste management, smart street lighting, smart agriculture, and many others.

The Cisco Wireless Gateway for LoRaWAN is available as a standalone, or as an integral part of Cisco Industrial Asset Vision Solution, which improves business resiliency, safety, and efficiencies by monitoring equipment, people, and facilities.

This product is a carrier-grade, ruggedized product specifically designed for harsh outdoor deployments, and also suitable for indoor applications. It adheres to the Semtech next-generation (version 2) gateway hardware reference design, offers up to 16 uplink channels, and provides geolocation capabilities through Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) techniques.

LoRa

LoRa is a disruptive RF physical layer modulation technology that offers long-distance wireless connectivity, excellent power efficiency, very high receiver sensitivity, robust spectrum spreading, and securely encrypted transmissions. It operates on unlicensed Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) frequencies, for which 863 – 870 MHz spectrum and spectrum subsets are available for Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India, and 902 – 928 MHz spectrum and spectrum subsets can be utilized in the Americas and in Asia-Pacific countries.

Where LoRaWAN is used

Smart city management

Connect assets to provide better services, including waste management, parking, street lighting, and public safety.

Asset tracking

Obtain location information for people and assets, including devices, vehicles, pets, and cattle.

Water and gas metering

Lower utilities operating costs by remotely reading and controlling gas and water meters.

INDUSTRIAL SENSORS FOR:

Refrigeration monitoring

• Freezer and cold room (temp/humidity)
• Ingress/egress
• Water leak detection

Warehouse monitoring

• Indoor environment (temp/humidity)
• Ingress/egress and occupancy
• Water leak detection
• Lighting conditions
• Outdoor location tracking
• Vibration monitoring

Equipment monitoring

• Equipment temperature
• Outdoor location tracking
• Vibration monitoring
• Tank level monitoring

Remote facility monitoring

• Outdoor environment (temp/humidity)
• Ingress/egress and occupancy
• Water leak detection
• Lighting conditions
• Outdoor location tracking
• Vibration monitoring
• Tank level monitoring
• Flow monitoring

Optimize manufacturing processes

Increase visibility of your operations, reduce costs, and maximize asset uptime with timely preventative maintenance.

LoRaWAN

LoRaWAN is a MAC (Media Access Control) protocol specification defined by the LoRa Alliance that complements the LoRa physical layer. It is supported by an established ecosystem of LoRaWAN compliant devices that are available from multiple vendors, and which can be certified for interoperability by the LoRa Alliance.

The end-to-end LoRaWAN network architecture consists of four elements (Figure 1):

●     Device: Endpoints such as water and gas meters, parking sensors, asset trackers, environmental sensors, or smoke detectors.

●     Gateway: The wireless infrastructure required to provide radio coverage and packet forwarding for the devices, as well as IP backhaul to the network server. Cisco offerings include this Gateway and the IoT Field Network Director, which may serve as the gateway management system.

●     Network server: The centralized radio controller, which performs radio management, the provisioning and authentication of devices, and the delivery of the data to one or multiple application servers through a set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Cisco offers a partner network server solution and provides an SDK for this Gateway for integration with alternative network server solutions.

●     Application server: allows data to be processed to fit individual use cases