Bivocom TR321-M has been certified by Monaco Telecom, it supports LTE CAT M1 and NB-IoT network, back support EDGE/GPRS, which is a good replacement for 3G/2G network and those applications that don’t require high speed and wide bandwidth for data transmission. Besides, its openwrt based Linux OS, supporting Python/C/C++ programing via Bivocom SDK, allow IoT developers to install their own application on TR321-M. In addition, TR321-M has 1-RS232, 1-RS485 and 2-RJ45 ports for industrial IoT application, and it has rich protocols, such as MQTT, JSON, Modbus RTU, and VPN(PPTP, L2TP, IPsec, GRE, OpenVPN).

About Bivocom

Bivocom was founded in 2014 by a creative and innovative team has more 10 years IoT experience, aiming to make a better and smarter world. By serving the global partners and customers with industrial cellular modems, routers, gateways, RTUs and IoT platform, Bivocom IoT solutions have been widely used for diverse industries, such as water, gas, oil, power, transportation, smart city, industry 4.0, smart pole, smart grid, digital signage, vending and more.

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Bivocom NB-IoT Router TR321-M

TR321-M is an OpenWrt based Linux OS industrial LTE CAT M1/NB-IoT IoT router, which provides C/C++, Python programmable embedded environment for IoT developers and programmers to implement their industrial applications in a flexible and fast way.

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TR321-M provides dual mode LTE-M/NB-IoT for applications that require different data throughput. Besides, it back supports EDGE/GPRS, which ensures your application can be widely covered by different cellular network. TR321 has 2-RJ45, 1- RS232, 1-RS485, and it is perfect for connecting the ethernet IP and serial port devices to cloud via cellular network. Besides, its auto switchover between wireless and wired WAN, multiple VPN features provide robust and secure connectivity for data transmission.

TR321-M has been widely used for industrial application, such as meter reading, HVAC, solar panel, etc.

Success Case-Smart Meter Using Bivocom TR321-M Onsite

The smart power meter is to use Bivocom NB-IoT Router TR321-M to connect to Schneider’s EasyLogic PM2230 Power & Energy meter via RS485, collecting the data with Modbus RTU protocol and transfer the data to customer’s MQTT cloud IoT platform.

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Links:

https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2019/2/difference-between-nb-iot-cat-m1

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What is HVAC?

HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning, and refers to the different systems used for moving air between indoor and outdoor areas, along with heating and cooling for residential, commercial and industrial buildings. They are used to keep people warm and cool in winter and summer, and keep people healthy by filtering and cleaning the indoor. Besides, they are also used for maintain the ambient temperature and humidity for things in commercial and industrial buildings, such as server room, factories, biological medicine manufacturing and storage, to keep the things at a certain level of temperature and humidity.

Figure 1. All-air HVAC system for single zone.

Source: https://www.intechopen.com/books/hvac-system/types-of-hvac-systems

Although there are so many applications of HVAC, today, we’re going to talk about smart HVAC in commercial building. Let’s have an overview of what is smart HVAC and what benefits we can get from it?

Why Smart HVAC?

A smart HVAC system leverages networked HVAC components, sensors and other technologies, such as IoT(Internet of Things), big data, cloud, artificial intelligence, etc., it’s the natural evolution of a building automation system (BAS).

Image source: Daikin

Why we need smart HVAC?

As you may know, HVAC system consumes about 40% of energy of whole commercial building, while after that, it’s lighting. So how to find a solution that will help the building owner save energy consumption, lower operation costs has become a challenge. While using smart HVAC, as there is an IoT router or gateway like Bivocom TR321-M connect to controllers or sensors of HVAC systems, to transfer the data to remote cloud server. In this way, building manager will easily know the status of HVAC and remotely control it on and off. Besides, the IoT enabled HVAC systems also provides predictive maintenance benefits, where maintenance crew will the potential operation issue of whole system before its badly breakdown, as well as remote troubleshooting and maintenance.

Benefits of Smart HVAC

1. Self-monitor operation conditions, potential malfunction can be detected and warned
2. Lower energy consumption, Proactive energy saving management
3. Predictive data analysis, proactively identifies maintenance
4. Save labor hour and maintenance cost
5. Cut carbon emissions
6. Improve building performance and efficiency

Why Daikin Chooses Bivocom LTE-M/NB-IoT Router TR321-M?

Daikin is the leader to provide the smart HVAC systems to global customers, so there are many legacy 3G routers and 4G routers installed in their systems. But as the phase out of 3G routers, price of other brands’ 4G router and  data plan are high, while their data bandwidth requirement is not that big, so they are looking for a new and cost-effective solution to replace legacy 3G router and 4G router.

Conclusion

There are benefits of TR321-M for Daikin’s smart HVAC.

1. LTE CAT M1 and NB-IoT technology, provides better coverage and lower energy consumption
2. Openwrt based Linux OS, provides C/C++/Python programming environment for IoT developers, where they can install their own applications on Bivocom IoT routers
3. Instead of using 4G router, LTE-M/NB-IoT router TR321-M is a more cost-effective solution, as both its hardware and data plan is cheaper than 4G.
4. TR321-M is able to operate between -35~+75^。C, it supports automatic reboot, or reboot via SMS or commands to ensure the robust and stable connectivity.
5. Bivocom provides fast, flexible technical support and customized R&D support for IoT developers, helping them to bring their IoT ideas to reality quickly.
6. TR321-M supports industrial protocols, such as Modbus RTU/TCP, MQTT, JSON, quickly convert data to the format customer required, helping Daikin save bandwidth of server.

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The wireless technology in internet of things(IoT) has played an important role to make this concept of solving the concerns come true, while when it comes to IoT, the wireless technology we offer talk is 4G, 3G, 2G, Zigbee, LoRa, etc., all those are technologies that have been widely used in Industry 4.0., but today, we’re going to talk is LTE CAT M1, NB-IoT LPWA technology, which has lower power consumption, wider coverage, and more cost effective, comparing with 4G, 3G.

To solve the challenges, Bivocom has launched the Bivocom LTE-M/NB-IoT Router TR321-M, which is good for the smart factory in Industry 4.0, allows customer to connect the TR321-M to their machines and transfer to the cloud server, where customer can monitor running time of machines, telling them about the maintenance time for those machines. Meanwhile, the users can remotely control the machines anywhere and anytime.

TR321-M Series LTE-M/NB-IoT Routers

1. Open WRT, support second development(LUA, Python)
2. Compatible with LTE CAT M1/NB-IoT, EDGE/GPRS
3. 2-Ethernet Port(10/100M), 1-RS232, 1-RS485(Option)
4. Multiple VPN protocols, IPSec, L2TP, PPTP, GRE and Open VPN
5. MQTT, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP protocol supported
6. Failover between WWAN and WAN.
7. Wall mounting and DIN-Rail mounting for option

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