ZigBee Bridge Device
A mesh network will provide
connectivity in most environments, but what if some of your nodes are out of range, separated
by structural concrete, across the street, or halfway across the
continent?You can add routing nodes, but power for
line-powered routers might not be available
at the optimum location. They will only offer a low-latency
connection to the nearest nodes in a lobe; distant nodes must hop
their messages across the width of the PAN. And if it takes more than
a few routers to span the gap, accumulating latency and node costs can
quickly make this approach impractical.
Our solution takes advantage of the Ethernet connectivity that
already exists in many building environments. Install a Q52 anywhere
in each lobe of the
PAN and link
them over a TCP/IP connection. Now it's one fast hop between the Q52s
regardless of their physical separation.
Need a coordinator for your PAN? Just check a box in
the Q52s web-based management interface and you have a reliable
coordinator with non-volatile storage of your PAN's configuration.
Installation is quick and easy too with an included discovery tool.
Then you can manage your remote Q52s using either their web or telnet
servers.
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