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What Communication Protocols Does the 5G Industrial Gateway Support?

What Communication Protocols Does the 5G Industrial Gateway Support?

The 5G industrial gateway finds widespread applications across various industries, including smart factories, equipment manufacturers, environmental monitoring, energy supervision, water supply, heating, gas supply, and other municipal projects.
Given that different industries utilize varying communication protocols for their industrial equipment, selecting a WideIOT 5G industrial gateway with built-in multi-industry protocols can significantly reduce secondary development time and greatly enhance the efficiency of 5G application deployment.

What is a 5G Industrial Gateway?

A gateway serves as a data transfer station for the Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial control systems, acting as a bridge between upper-level terminals (such as computer/touch screen monitoring systems, MES, mobile apps, databases) and lower-level machine equipment (including PLCs, sensors, CNC numerical control machines, instruments).
The role of a 5G industrial gateway is to parse and convert protocols from these diverse devices and transmit the collected data through wired or wireless networks.

Leveraging the high speed and low latency of 5G, the 5G industrial gateway can transmit data to the backend with minimal delay.
This capability makes it invaluable in industries such as smart factories, smart water management, and remote work.
As 5G technology advances, the application scenarios and domains for 5G industrial gateways continue to expand, indicating a significant trend in the IoT industry.

Communication Protocols Supported by the 5G Industrial Gateway

Integrated DTU and IO Functions: Supports various protocol transmissions such as WDTCP, WDUDP, transparent TCP, and transparent UDP; enables IO digital control remotely or locally.
Embedded Industrial Control Protocols: Supports mainstream industrial control protocols and custom protocol development, such as MQTT, Modbus, and OPC-UA.
WDCP Protocol: Facilitates remote configuration and deployment of engineering projects, supports edge computing, data collection, standardized and secure data access, and bidirectional device control.
Edge Computing Unit: Achieves intelligent analysis and computation at edge nodes through policy rules and application module distribution.

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