A wireless networking I/O and Wi-Fi gateway, the WI-I/O-2-E-N-GBL, accommodates multiple I/O nodes and extends communications to sensors and actuators in local, remote, or difficult to reach locations.
The WI-I/O-2-E-N-GBL offers reliable and robust wireless technology with multiple benefits for industrial applications, including a simple web-based user interface, and a standards-based wireless protocol with a networking topology that is simple to use and configure.
Weidmuller’s WI-I/O-2-E-N-GBL can provide IP-based networking across sprawling industrial environments and includes built-in I/O capability for digital and analog inputs and outputs. The modem can be easily configured for use globally via a built-in webserver.
The WI-I/O-2-E-N-GBL unit provides robust and secure two-way wireless communications for challenging indoor and outdoor industrial environments. The internal radio transceiver is designed to operate reliably even in applications with obstructed pathways, using Weidmuller’s ProMesh redundancy protocol. ProMesh networking provides mesh node remote units the ability to automatically detect available connectivity options and make decisions based on link quality. It also offers the unique ability to set fixed links, providing a high level of connection reliability and redundancy. The WI-I/O-2-E-N-GBL unit supports base, repeater, and remote functionality, providing for reliable redundant networks in industrial applications.
Weidmuller’s wireless I/O and Wi-Fi gateway unit can also provide Ethernet and serial gateway support for industrial protocols that include Modbus TCP/RTU and DNP3. With easy-to-configure Hot Spot capabilities, this unit can also be used to bridge multiple networks together to create a DHCP server.
Features:
- IP-based addressing has the unique ability to MESH between I/O radios for automatic network healing and reliable data communications
- Unlimited number of repeater hops in one system
- On board multi-I/O channels for two way communications
- Frequency Hopping 902-928 MHz 1W license-free USA/Canada
- Unrivaled scalability allowing for thousands if I/O points in one system
- Automatic connection of up to 31 I/O expansion modules (WI-I/O-EX-I-S-XX) per wireless unit
- Simple software upgrade to Ethernet TCP/IP or Modbus
- USB/Ethernet and over-the-air configuration and programming
