Multi-Radio IoT Platform: Providers and Manufacturers

This page provides information about Multi Radio IoT Platform Providers and Manufacturers.

Popular manufacturers of Multi radio IoT Platforms include Laird connectivity, D-Link, PHYTEC, Volansys, and SWYCS.

What is a Multi Radio IoT Platform?

An IoT platform that houses multiple radio transceiver ICs of different standards, such as Wi-Fi, cellular, Zigbee, Z-Wave, and Thread, is known as a multi-radio IoT platform.

Let’s understand this with an example: a Zigbee-Wi-Fi IoT gateway. In this device, a mobile application can be used to control Zigbee end devices. The mobile app can connect with the IoT gateway via the cloud (WAN) or WLAN (Wi-Fi). The gateway functions as a routing device between the Zigbee end devices and the cloud.

Devices can be controlled locally using Android or iOS mobile applications with Wi-Fi when internet connectivity is not available. The figure above depicts the block diagram of a typical multi-radio IoT platform. As shown, such a modular platform can be used as a Wi-Fi to Zigbee gateway as well as for cellular to Zigbee applications. One can program and incorporate other wireless standards (e.g., Z-Wave, Thread, etc.) for use on such an IoT gateway.

Unlicensed LPWA (Low Power Wide Area) networks employ other wireless technologies/standards such as LoRa, Sigfox, and Ingenu. Licensed LPWA radio technologies used in IoT are LTE-M and NB-IoT. Short-range radio IoT platforms use common technologies such as Bluetooth and RFID.

Multi Radio IoT Platform Manufacturers or Vendors

The following table lists Multi radio IoT platform manufacturers or vendors along with their part numbers and technical features.

• As described above • Website : https://volansys.com/ • Email : business@volansys.com | | D-Link | • Model DSH-G300 • This model supports multi radio standards viz. zigbee, thread and bluetooth LE/mesh/Bluetooth 5 versions. • It supports wifi as per WLAN 802.11 b/g/n at 2.4 GHz frequency. | | SWYCS | • Model : IoT Gateway V2.1.6 • This IoT gateway is used as multi radio IoT platform with support for multiple wireless standards such as WiFi, EnOcean, Zigbee, Z-wave and BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). • It is powered by ARM AM335x 1GHz processor. | | PHYTEC Embedded Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, INDIA | • Model : Industrial IoT Gateway • Multi radio supported include zigbee, BLE, 6LoWPAN etc. Cloud connectivity can be done using WiFi, Ethernet and cellular (ie. GSM/CDMA ) technologies. • Supported operating systems include Embedded Linux, Android & WinCE | | Laird Connectivity | • Model : Sentrius TM RG1xx series LoRaWAN gateway with wifi/ethernet, Optional LTE • Model : Sentrius TM MG100 Gateway with LTE-M/NB-IoT and bluetooth 5 • Other wireless IoT gateway are also provided by Laird connectivity. • Visit website https://www.lairdconnect.com/ for more information |