Conduit

MultiConnect Conduit

MultiConnect Conduit is the industry’s most configurable, manageable, and scalable cellular communications gateway for industrial IoT applications. Network engineers can remotely configure and optimize their Conduit performance through DeviceHQ, the world’s first IoT Application Store and Device Management platform.

The Conduit features two accessory cards slots that enable users to plug in MultiConnect mCard accessory cards supporting their preferred wired or wireless interface to connect a wide range of assets locally to the gateway. Available options include a LoRaWAN mCard capable of supporting thousands of MultiConnect mDot long range RF modules connected to remote sensors or appliances.

Both IBM’s Node-RED, a graphical, drag-and-drop interface and mLinux Open Embedded/Yocto opens the complex world of IoT application development to a wider user group to monitor and control their assets.

Quick-to-deploy and easy to customize and manage, the Conduit communications gateway realizes your IoT application.

Key Benefits

• Incredible asset management range with LoRa - up to 16km line of sight, 2km into buildings
• Integration support with a variety of partner and private Cloud Platforms
• 2-way communication over any cellular network for cost effective global deployments
• Create differentiated services for your customers via the DeviceHQ IoT Application Store

Application Development Tailored to You

MultiConnect Conduit provides both the IBM Node-RED graphical, drag-and-drop interface and mLinux development environments, offering IT professionals, integrators and developers alike, programming choice and capability to utilize the distributed intelligence capabilities of the Conduit to provide analytics on incoming data and provide more actionable outgoing data.

For the Advanced Developer – Open mLinux Development Environment

With a completely open Linux development environment, our mLinux distribution is based on the Open Embedded/Yocto project; providing hundreds of open source packages and extensive language support.

This development path is recommended for those wanting to port existing applications, who have strong language preferences, or who need complete firmware control.

The mLinux Distribution Includes:

• Operating System: Linux 3.12 Kernel, Yocto 1.6
• Language Support: Java, Ruby, Perl, Python, C/C++, PHP, C# and JavaScript
• Packages: SQLite (Database), Ligttpd (Web Server), BusyBox (Core Utilities), etc...

Fast and Intuitive Programming with Node.js and Node-RED Technologies

Applications can be simply created and deployed by the click of a button based upon IBM’s Node-RED visual development tool. Incredibly user-friendly, Node-RED is an intuitive graphical programming tool ideal for rapid prototyping, designed for IT professionals to optimize and scale the edge behavior of their IoT network.

Easily Deploy and Manage Assets Via DeviceHQ

MultiTech DeviceHQ is the M2M industry’s first IoT online application store to enable customers to easily deploy and scale applications to their connected devices. Drag-and-drop tools easily allow customers to create and manage Applications for in-field assets. The DeviceHQ application store gives your business the power to innovate operations management and create value-added services.

Benefits

• "Low Touch" asset deployment reduces costs, complexity and time
• No truck-rolls via remote performance management and asset updates
• Easily scales to your network needs
• Browse and download a wide variety of custom applications tailored to your business needs

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