The Deeter Group has added a wireless Modbus gateway to its range of wireless sensor network products. The gateway communicates with the Modbus network via a RS485 port in slave mode; it coordinates the wireless sensor network and manages data acquisition from the sensors using the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol in the 2.4GHz industrial, scientific and medical frequency band.
A gateway may be installed as a component of a control or measurement system or as an extension to an existing wired sensor system in order to add wireless connected sensors, claims the company.
The company's wireless products may be used indoors or outside and all are rated to IP64, have an operating temperature range of -20 to +70ºC and compliant to FCC part 15.
The wireless sensors and network components may be used to remotely monitor temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, liquid level, float or proximity switches or any sensor connected to a 4 to 20mA control loop. The company's wireless sensor networks can range from a simple single sensor measurement to complex multi sensor and multi-vendor systems with mixed sensor inputs and routers to extend wireless range and offer self-healing mesh networks.
The company's product range includes level sensors, wireless sensing systems, leak detectors, industrial weighing equipment, reed and proximity switches, security switches, termination assemblies, litz and magnetic wire and solar power systems.
