IoT Smart Gateway Empowers Industrial Equipment Monitoring, Operation, and Maintenance Management Upgrade

With the advancement of Industry 4.0, automation is no longer a challenge for enterprises. Instead, they face challenges from intelligence and digitization.

 Against this backdrop, various industries are actively exploring the integration of technologies such as IoT, 5G communication, and edge computing to build customized digital systems that enhance production efficiency and reduce operating costs.

Pain Point Analysis

As enterprises expand their production scales, equipment becomes scattered across the country and even overseas.

 They encounter issues including incompatible communication between new and old equipment, data silos between devices and systems, low cross-device and cross-system data communication capabilities, and low levels of intelligent operation and maintenance and data analysis. These problems have become significant factors hindering enterprises' production efficiency and profitability.

Solution

To enable seamless integration of various industrial equipment into IoT systems, WideIOT provides various types of IoT smart gateways. These gateways offer protocol adaptation, device connection, edge computing, 5G communication, and NAT conversion capabilities, assisting enterprises in establishing efficient, reliable, and intelligent equipment monitoring, operation, and maintenance management systems.

1. Diverse Device Connection: Given the variety of equipment in factory workshops with differing communication protocols, traditional methods struggle with unified data collection and management.

    The WideIOT industrial smart gateway can easily connect with various sensors, PLCs, industrial robots, CNC machines, and instruments, adapting to protocols and enabling multiple internet connection methods such as 5G/4G/WIFI/Ethernet, facilitating reliable communication between devices.

2. Edge Computing for Efficient Data Processing: With the increasing number of devices connected to IoT systems, the volume of data and processing pressure grows.

    By integrating WideIOT edge computing gateways, data computation and processing can occur at the source (local side), including intelligent acquisition, data filtering, alarm calculation, change triggering, formula calculation, and grouping strategies. This effectively reduces network load and cloud server burden while ensuring efficient and accurate data processing.

3. Protocol Adaptation and NAT Conversion for Old and New Equipment: To address communication challenges between old and new equipment, industrial smart gateways can perform protocol parsing and conversion. They can also utilize NAT gateways for IP conversion and network segment isolation, reliably supporting rapid compatibility with factory standardized networks. For instance, if multiple devices in a workshop have IP addresses in different network segments, they can be unified into the same network segment for online programming, data collection, remote management, and other cross-network segment access.