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Simmtronic announce IoT Gateway

The SPC.2031 IoT Gateway enhances the standard Simmtronic offering of a single building wide SPC.3020 Integrated Processor Unit, by providing an additional “per floor” solution for Smart Building deployments and Data Integration. This allows, for example, the floors’ end user to publish their own status data via MQTT separately from the rest of the building.

Optionally, the SPC.2031 platform can accommodate additional software modules to provide other autonomous functions like automated DALI Emergency Lighting testing, BACnet interfacing, circadian rhythm control, astronomical time programs and other high-level control and monitoring functions. This adds extra resilience to an already capable system.

Key Benefits of the Simmtronic IoT Gateway solution:

Additionally, the SPC.2031 can also provide other autonomous functions like:

• automated DALI Emergency Lighting testing BACnet interfacing.
• circadian rhythm control.
• astronomical time programs/ other high-level control/monitoring functions.
• the latest internet security protocols to ensure data integrity.

Mario Costanzo, Simmtronic Sales Director, says, "With the fast-moving pace of what clients would like in regards to Smart Ready or Smart Buildings, what they expect is also changing at a very fast pace. Technology is catching up with clients’ expectations, and daily clients ask for new smart features.

"We recently featured MQTT, and how the rich data that our systems can produce can be exported out over MQTT in almost real time to clients’ data lakes for third party integrators to use.

"Now clients are asking for Smart Building interfaces on a floor-by-floor basis, so individual tenants if required can link lighting and other building systems at a local level. The Simmtronic IoT Gateways provide this, and they also come with an IoT Supervisor which provides visibility of the whole installation. The IoT Gateway architecture makes it easy for tenants to split off from the rest of the building if they wish and to have their own data streams to their own data lakes."

Stephen Ades, Simmtronic Senior Software Engineer, explains, “Clients are moving towards localised
Smart Building integration of their building control systems, which means multiple interfaces from the lighting
system to their IP networks. At the same time they are demanding increased security features from all the
equipment interfacing to their networks. It comes in two main parts:

"authentication, so that only registered and approved devices can access their networks. The Simmtronic IoT Gateway supports this using 802.1x authentication at its network interfaces, plus DHCP so that network managers have visibility of which devices are connected to the network;

"data security, so that data can traverse their networks freely while only intended recipients can decode and use it.

"The Simmtronic IoT Gateway supports this using TLS-based encryption as well as multiple levels of MQTT client and server authentication.”

For more information, please contact Simmtronic on 01992 450126 or visit www.simmtronic.com