BridgeX Installation
BridgeX is a smart inexpensive converter between the most popular LoRaWAN hardware device's on the market (+300) and ModbusTCP. BridgeX supports a huge collection of sensor's and IO-hardware from worldleading manufacturers. Readymade included decoders that immediately transforms the raw sensor data into valuable business data. The sensorlibrary includes a multitude of standard IoT devices to help you get started with your IoT project in minutes. Easily connect any LoRaWAN device from the included library to any PLC or Scada system in minutes, -no coding required!
Schematic setup, Gateway, PLC/SCADA and BridgeX must be in the same network, preferable behind the customer firewall.
LARGEST CODEC LIBRARY
Hundreds of IoT device manufacturers have enabled their hardware to be included in the BridgeX decoded sensor catalog. The CODEC library decodes device payloads to easily make them available on or platform or yours.
BridgeX is a device that is configured to cater multiple applications like energy management, water management, temperature monitoring, proptech, asset management, cold chain and more. BridgeX provides a number of competitive advantages for rapid IoT development and deployment. First and foremost, it empowers IoT solution engineers with end-to-end IoT development experience so that they can create fully-featured enterprise-grade IoT applications on a single platform.
Short introduction video explaining the concept.
A bridgeX device comes delivered with
- Integrated Chirpstack LoRaWAN server.
- Nodeledge Application Server with built in automatic payload decoder.
- ModbusTCP Master/Slave.
- Metal enclousure, snap-on mounting for DIN rails
- Netadapter 240CVAC with euro plug.
- 2 meter RJ45 patch cable.
- A LoRaWAN gateway ( we discuss wich model is suitable for your application needs )
- LoRaWAN sensors for you application.
- Password protected webgui.
- Export and import of tagdata for easy backup and restore.
- 1 hour of onlinesupport to get you up and running with your BridgeX.
BridgeX™ Application Server
BridgeX is a converter device that supports a huge collection of LoRaWAN sensor's and IO-hardware from worldleading manufacturers. Readymade decoders that immediately transforms the raw sensor data into valuable business data. The sensorlibrary includes a multitude of standard IoT devices to help you get started with your IoT project in minutes. Easily connect any sensordevice from the mentioned in the below list and send the data directly to your PLC or SCAD, - no coding required! The most popular off-the-shelf IoT devices are already integrated into the platform, and new IOT devices/sensors are added continuously to our device decoder library. You can create your own JS payload decoder with our webbased application server interface.
Features
Payload encryption / decryption BridgeX™ Application Server handles the encryption and decryption of the application payloads.
Web-interface BridgeX™ Application Server offers a web-interface (built on top of the provided RESTful API). This web-interface can be used to manage gateways, LoRWAN devices, modbusregisters ans mores. Payloads and device events BridgeX™ Application Server provides different ways of sending and receiving device payloads (e.g. MQTT, HTTP, InfluxDB, ...). Please refer to Sending and receiving for all available integrations. Note: downlink payloads can also be scheduled through the API. Live frame-logging With BridgeX™ Application Server you are able to inspect all raw and encrypted LoraWAN frames per gateway or device. When opening the LoRaWAN frames tab on the gateway or device detail page, you will see all frames passing in Realtime. This will also allow you to inspect the (encrypted) content of each LoRaWAN frame. Live event-logging With BridgeX™ Application Server you are able to inspect all events from the web-interface, without the need to use a MQTT client or build an integration. When opening the Live event logs tab on the device detail pace, you will see all uplinks, ack, join and error events in realtime. Modbus TCP slave setup and monitoring of devicedata Search and find the device and sensor and set the appropriate ModbusTCP slave holding register so that SCADA system and PLC can connect and fetch decoded sensordata. Connectors Description to be done
BACnet Description to be done
KNX Description to be done
OPC UA Description to be done
MQTT Description to be done
Node RED It's possible to run Node-RED inside your BridgeX. Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click https://nodered.org/
Stresstest of BridgeX, capable of decoding 1000 Lorawan payloads per minute, that is 16 payloads per second....
