Wireless Devices

“Robust connectivity is critical to support industrial IoT use cases surrounding predictive maintenance and digital twins”, said Fredrik Stålbrand, IoT Analyst, Berg Insight.

At the heart of the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) is wireless technology, made possible via RF or radio frequency. This technology enables devices to communicate with another without being physically connected. With its roots in the early 20th century, RF technology is not new. But it has grown to include cellular devices and other advances, keeping in stride with an enormous demand for new consumer and industrial applications.

Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint RF and microwave links have been in use for many years in various applications, making it possible to connect widespread assets to control and monitor with low data rate and high reliability We support businesses with expertize and techniques to deploy and demonstrate the benefits of LPWAN technology.

• Cost of Wire used in the large field.
• Cost of Man hour used for laying of the wire.
• Considerable time is wasted in planning the wire-laying plan.
• Intricacies involved with laying of wire across a large field that may become a factor of failure in future.
• Risk of cutting of wire while performing any farming action on the field, thus interrupting the automation process of solenoid solutions. This can also result in uneven time for watering the field and crop for cultivation.
• Impossibility of laying wire at some areas due to geographical constraints.
• High cost of such solutions

UCT offers long-range data transmitter and receiver wireless devices at highly competitive cost with various types of inputs and outputs combination.

Some benefit of this solution over their traditional solution are

• No cost of wire and wire laying.
• Less Man hour required for installation
• No risk of issues involved in wire laying and signal distortion due to cutting of wire.
• Easy to install and handle
• Considerable saving of cost.
• Easy troubleshooting
• Long range wireless operation
• Plug and play devices.
• Low Maintenance of the devices.
• Long range of communication.
• Multiple node can be connected to one transmitter node

In large irrigation fields, pump system is controlled through solenoid valves. These valves are controlled by a common controller which is placed at the vicinity of the field. Controller is programmed and set to latch (and unlatch) the solenoid valve distributed across various locations in the open field. The connections from controller to valves is made through traditional wired system. This results in laying the wire across the field in a highly optimized manner.

UCT offers long-range data transmitter and receiver wireless devices at highly competitive cost with various types of inputs and outputs combination. One of the wireless device is 4 channel digital input transmitter and 4 channel relay output receiver that is complementary pair for each other, can transmit data to receiver within 3 km of radius at line of sight. Using the above-mentioned devices, digital outputs from the controller is connected to the input side of the transmitter device. Solenoid coil is connected from the relay output of the receiver device. Signal from the controller is transmitted through wireless transmitter device to receiver device located in the distant field within 3 km range in radius at line of sight. Signal received at receiver module is used to energize the coil hence control the pump application.
Whole solution is installed under star topology where one transmitter is connected to the maximum of 3 receiver devices (each 4 channel receiver nodes) depending upon the type of transmitter (either 8 channel / 12 channel inputs) as shown below :

Warehouses are one of the integral part of any supply chain management process. It is required for storage of raw materials, products, spares etc. where temperature and humidity are prime factors. Some of the products are temperature and humidity sensitive that variation in temperature and/or humidity can degrade the quality of the product to an excessive extent. Food products are kept in a set temperature and humidity, which is to be maintained until they are further transported.

Most of the warehouses have temperature-monitoring system, which are wired system. Either such warehouses have solutions where past-recorded data in data logger are used to analyse the trend, or a wired system is laid to obtain real time data involving cost, effort and time. Such solutions involve issues as given below.

UCT offers Temperature/Humidity sensor node device, which provides real time ambient temperature and humidity at remote location. Multiple node devices can easily connect with Wireless Ethernet Gateway, which can transfer data to cloud server through MQTT or to a local server through Modbus TCP/IP for monitoring the real time data.

The term describes a highly digitalized and connected environment where machinery and equipment are able to improve processes through automation and self-optimization. The benefits also extend beyond just the physical production of goods and into functions like planning, supply chain logistics, and even product development. Yet, the core value of the smart factory still happens within the four walls of the plant. The structure of a smart factory can include a combination of production, information, and communication technologies, with the potential for integration across the entire manufacturing supply chain. All these disparate parts of production can be connected via the IoT (Internet of Things) or other types of advanced integrated circuits (IC’s), which enable sensing, measurement, control, and communication of everything that is happening throughout the manufacturing process.

Several machines and devices in factory are controlled and monitored by legacy devices and protocols. These solutions are working since long before the introduction of smart concept. Smart factory and smart machines can considerably improve the productivity and efficiency of the production. To avail such improved productivity, one need to replace the current machines and devices with the new one, which itself incur huge cost, effort and time. A machine giving digital output is connected to the controller through wired system. To make it smart, a cost efficient wireless solution is required which can integrate itself to the legacy machine. Wired solutions involve issues as given below:

• Cost of Wire used in the large field.
• Cost of Man hour used for laying of the wire.
• Considerable time is wasted in planning the wire-laying plan.
• tricacies involved with laying of wire across a large area that may become a factor of failure in future.
• possibility of laying wire at some areas due to regional constraints.
• High cost of the solution.

UCT offers different types of input and output wireless devices, which can easily integrate with such legacy devices and transmit its data wirelessly. Devices under UCT basket includes 4 Channel Digital Input Output Wireless Trans-Receiver pair can take digital input from the machine and transmit it to the receiver device which can be integrated to the controller. Similarly, data from the controller can be sent to the machine through digital input at controller end to digital output at machine end. This pair is one of the cost efficient solution for such devices. If only monitoring is required, then UCT has 4 Channel Digital Input Wireless Transmitter, through which digital input from various machines and sensors can be transmitted to the Wireless Ethernet Gateway wirelessly, Then the data can either be monitored at local server through Modbus TCP/IP or can be sent to Cloud server through MQTT

Smart Parking is one of the most sought after solution for an effective management of vehicles in the parking. A smart parking must be able to provide total space with details about the vacant, reserved and occupied space. Smart Parking solutions are designed to provide drivers an ultimate solution on their journey from the beginning to end without searching for parking, cost, travel time etc. Smart Parking is a parking strategy that combines technology and human innovation in an effort to use as few resources as possible—such as fuel, time and space—to achieve faster, easier and denser parking of vehicles for the majority of time they remain idle.

Parking of public places are wide and distributed. It could be in an open space or on the big basement of a mall, hotel or a marketplace, etc. Distribution of sensors and data acquisition devices across the parking area resulting in laying of wires and making it complicated. This also results in associated risks involved in the wired system.

UCT offers devices like 4 Channel Digital Transmitter Node, which can take digital input from sensors at its input side and transmit the periodic data wirelessly to Wireless Ethernet Gateway, with a range of approx. 3 KM in radius from line of sight. Data from the gateway can be easily transferred to the Cloud server through MQTT or to Local server through Modbus TCP\IP.

Smart Street Light is an integral part of Smart City Solution. Smart street lights can transform the way municipalities manage cities, while delivering enormous savings. With street lighting accounting for nearly 40 percent of many cities’ total energy costs, local governments and utility providers are seeking new ways to decrease energy usage and reduce costs. Switching from halogen to LED luminaires can help achieve that goal by delivering immediate savings of 50 to 80 percent through reduced energy use. Moreover, installing smart LEDs can generate an additional 10 to 20 percent savings by adjusting output to ambient light levels, dimming or brightening as needed. They can also be set to turn on only when they detect motion, and then dim or turn off after a specific amount of time.

One of the prime function of any smart system is to acquire real time data and analysing the same. Transfer of data through wired system is more complicated with the intricacies involved in the wired network. Installation and Maintenance of wired system is more difficult. This also results in associated risks involved in the wired system. Some of the issues are:

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can reduce the risk and complications involved in wired system. 4 Channel Digital Input Transmitter Node device can easily transmit the digital data to Wireless Ethernet Gateway device. One Gateway can receive data from 20 different nodes and one node can take 4 digital input signals. This increases the scope of the function over wireless data transfer with a range of approx. 3 Km at line of sight. Data from the gateway can be easily transferred to the Cloud server through MQTT or to Local server through Modbus TCP\IP.

Most of the Edible oils, Gasoline and liquid chemicals are imported and transported from one port to another around the world. These liquids are stored from ship at various tank farms through long pipes. Level of the liquid decides the total liquid to be filled in a tank as one may contain the liquid of multiple receivers.

Edible and Edible oils, Liquid chemicals, and other type of liquids are stored by the dealers in large store tank, where it is necessary to monitor liquid level along with other usual parameters like temperature, pressure, humidity, viscosity, etc. Most of such storage tanks are located in remote areas far away from populated area. Real time liquid level data is also required at the monitoring station located far from the tank location. Laying of wire for that long is not a cost effective solution.

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can reduce the risk and complications involved in wired system. Main feature of the wireless solution is its long range of approx. 3 KM in radius at line of sight. Data from digital level sensor can be transferred through 4 Channel or 8 Channel Digital Input Wireless Transmitter Node and the periodic data can be received at the monitoring station within 3 KM through a Wireless Ethernet Gateway device. Through Ethernet, the data can be transferred to either cloud server through MQTT or to a local server through Modbus TCP/IP.

Nuclear power plants are a type of power plant that use the process of nuclear fission in order to generate electricity. A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. As of 2014, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports there are 450 nuclear power reactors in operation in 31 countries. Nuclear power provides the world with around 11% of its total electricity, with the largest producers being the United States and France.

Nuclear power plants are a type of power plant that use the process of nuclear fission in order to generate electricity. A nuclear power plant is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces electricity. As of 2014, the International Atomic Energy Agency reports there are 450 nuclear power reactors in operation in 31 countries. Nuclear power provides the world with around 11% of its total electricity, with the largest producers being the United States and France

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can reduce the risk and complications involved in wired system. Main feature of the wireless solution is its long range of approx. 3 KM in radius at line of sight. Data from digital radiation sensor can be transferred through 4 Channel or 8 Channel Digital Input Wireless Transmitter Node and the periodic data can be received at the monitoring station within 3 KM through a Wireless Ethernet Gateway device. Through Ethernet, the data can be transferred to either cloud server through MQTT or to a local server through Modbus TCP/IP.

Industry is an integral part of the economy that produces goods, related services and source of income. Manufacturing Industry consist of many critical and non-critical processes for producing end product. With need to monitor each processes, IIoT comes into picture. Predictive maintenance focuses more on predicting the future breakdowns and machine health basis past and current data. Since most of the processes in the manufacturing industry are critical, predictive maintenance and conditional monitoring is gaining more and more interest.

Temperature is one of the prime monitoring parameter in any machine or process. Motor is the driving force of most of the industrial machines and applications. Although smart motors are out in the industry, yet these solutions are very expensive. Also, most of the manufacturers have motors and machines installed years ago which is functioning without any issue, but temperature monitoring of these motors and machines was difficult. One major issue was integration of IoT for obtaining data from such motor or machines. Also installation in wired system will further increase cost of the solution. Some wire related issues are:

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can reduce the risk and complications involved in wired system. Main feature of the wireless solution is its long range of approx. 3 KM in radius at line of sight. Data from temperature sensor (PT-100, Thermocouple, RTD, etc.) can be transferred through 4 Channel Analog Input Wireless Transmitter Node and the periodic data can be received at the monitoring station within 3 KM through a Wireless Ethernet Gateway device. Through Ethernet, the data can be transferred to either cloud server through MQTT or to a local server through Modbus TCP/IP.

Air Pollution is one of the major pollution that is degrading the health of living beings. It has become major concern to monitor and control the pollution for the safeguard of mother earth, living beings and future generations. Government of many countries including India are looking for and implementing a cost effective solution for monitoring of air quality.

Air quality sensors are generally used for monitoring of air quality for a particular area or region. This data is required to be transmitted to a gateway from sensor for monitoring of data at nearby monitoring centre. Currently, wired system is used for the network that makes the solution complicated due to intricacies involved. Installation in wired system will further increase cost of the solution.

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can reduce the risk and complications involved in wired system. Main feature of the wireless solution is its long range of approx. 3 KM in radius at line of sight. Data from Air quality sensor can be transferred through 4 Channel Analog Input Wireless Transmitter Node and the periodic data can be received at the monitoring station within 3 KM through a Wireless Ethernet Gateway device. Through Ethernet, the data can be transferred to either cloud server through MQTT or to a local server through Modbus TCP/IP.

Smart meter is used to monitor units consumed and transmit the units as well as cost charged over through wireless communication and can be accessed by the user through the defined medium. This allows user to easily check the energy usage along with the cost charged online using a host personal computer or mobile application. Thus the energy meter monitoring system allows user to effectively monitor electricity meter readings and check the billing online with ease.

Air quality sensors are generally used for monitoring of air quality for a particular area or region. This data is required to be transmitted to a gateway from sensor for monitoring of data at nearby monitoring centre. Currently, wired system is used for the network that makes the solution complicated due to intricacies involved. Installation in wired system will further increase cost of the solution.
Smart Meter are generally used for monitoring the energy consumption by the users. The data of meter is required to be transmitted to a gateway from physical meter for monitoring of data. Currently, physical and isolate meter is used for monitoring consumption that makes the solution complicated. The issue are as follows:

• Physical visit for meter reading
• Meter tampering
• Mismatch of meter reading and bills

UCT offers Wireless system for data transfer that can help to solve the above issues. Utility Meter is a device that measures the amount of electric energy consumed by a residence, a business, or an electrically powered device. Wireless DLMS Data Reader Node (DLMS Protocol) can read the input data from the Utility Meter and transmit the data to the Wireless GSM Gateway. Wireless GSM Gateway can accept data from multiple nodes and the data can be transferred to the cloud. The User can avail the data from cloud via mobile or personal computer.