Morrisville, NC. Device Solutions Inc. has announced the availability of the next generation 4G LTE CAT1-enabled Cellio LoRa gateway for wide-area, long-range, end-to-end monitoring of agriculture, cold-chain, gas-distribution, transportation, and other industrial (IIoT/M2M) applications. The Cellio solution encompasses the hardware, software, wireless connectivity, cloud storage, and monitoring apps for smartphones.
Cellio’s distributed architecture (star topology), with dozens of sensors attached to a Cellio transceiver, connects to the Cellio gateway. The Cellio Gateway makes the connection to the cloud through the cellular network. A single Cellio Gateway can support hundreds of transceivers on a campus, facility, etc. Leveraging a single cellular connection per site represents substantial cellular savings and overall lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for enterprise-wide installations.
For example, connecting multiple sensors to each transceiver, and possibly 100s of transceivers to each gateway, means that each sensor could be monitored for less than $1/month inclusive of cellular fees, data hosting, dashboarding, analytics, mobile apps, etc. In contrast, alternative architecture approaches require a cellular connection for every asset (or every sensor) and can range upwards of $35/month—making many alternative approaches cost prohibitive for most clients.
In addition, Cellio gateways are scalable and simple to deploy. Once deployed at a site, Cellio provides a platform onto which additional transceiver devices and sensors can be added quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Cellio’s gateways provide a unique capability whereby the transceivers can simply be turned on and put into place and then automatically connect and start sending information to the gateway, which in turn relays the information to the cloud. In practice, installations can be done in minutes with data showing up on the cloud dashboard almost instantly.
“With the pace of change in wireless standards and cellular-network technology we value our partnership with a technology innovator such as Device Solutions,” said Lambert Matias, president and CEO, GovMobile LLC. “We have been pleased with how rapidly we can deploy industrial-grade IoT solutions for our government clients using their Cellio Enterprise IIoT solution.”
The newest generation of Cellio 4G LTE CAT1 (with LoRa) gateways provide
- an internal cellular antenna,
- an internal 900-MHz LoRa antenna (greater than 1 mile line of sight),
- an internal LiIon back-up battery,
- an AC power supply (alternative power options available including solar), and
- a waterproof and dustproof enclosure (IP68).
A single GPS-capable gateway can support hundreds of transceivers; each transceiver can support dozens of sensors. Versions include 4G LTE CAT1 for both Verizon and AT&T (the AT&T model includes 3G fallback).
“Our newest Cellio 4G LTE gateway represents our commitment to support evolving cellular networks worldwide while supporting our customers for the foreseeable technology horizon,” explained Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions. “We believe the timing is perfect to provide 4G LTE CAT1-enabled devices for our customers who are investing in large enterprise (multisite) installations and don’t want to risk having to replace or upgrade equipment for the foreseeable future.”