The Catalyst IR8140 Heavy Responsibility Collection Router might be Cisco’s first router to assist new Capabilities for FAN 1.1. to fulfill growing digitization wants. 

In 2019, the Wi-SUN Alliance launched the primary licensed merchandise implementing Area Space Community 1.0, which is a safe, self-forming , self-healing IPv6 wi-fi mesh community designed to assist good utility, good metropolis and different use instances working over giant geographic areas.  Based mostly on IETF IoT requirements and sub-GHz IEEE 802.15.4 radio, there are as we speak greater than 90 licensed merchandise supporting electrical utility metering, distribution automation, and municipal avenue lighting purposes.

2024 will see the provision of the primary licensed units implementing the brand new FAN 1.1 options, which is able to embrace necessary extra capabilities:

• Low energy gadget operation.  The world’s high metering corporations have developed FAN’s new low energy capabilities.  Low energy nodes will be capable to perform for as much as 20 years on battery, focusing on use instances corresponding to water metering, fuel metering and varied broad space, low energy monitoring purposes.
• Increased efficiency.  FAN 1.1 provides an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing PHY to the present 2FSK assist, that means FAN 1.1 knowledge charges will cowl the vary of fifty Kbps as much as 2.4 Mbps.  The upper knowledge charges might be welcome for low latency utility distribution automation purposes corresponding to Fault Location Isolation and Restoration (FLISR).
• Mesh neighbors will be capable to negotiate modulation and knowledge fee.  This “gear shifting” functionality can be utilized, for instance, to transition a piece of decrease throughput metering mesh to a better throughput mode for fault isolation operations.
• Expanded geographic assist.  North America, Brazil, Japan, and European Union operation is supported.  Extension to extra 800 and 900 MHz areas is now sensible.

A single FAN 1.1 mesh can assist hundreds of Router nodes, every in a position to dad or mum low energy nodes. A basic utility use case for this topology is a deployment of electrical meters (Routers), every parenting a number of water or fuel meters.  Including extra meshes scales a deployment to thousands and thousands of nodes.

Determine 1 depicts an instance FAN 1.1 mesh.  A self-forming, self-healing mesh is shaped amongst the Border Router and Routers.  Routers are additional in a position to “dad or mum” low energy nodes.  The sub-GHz mesh RF hyperlinks can stretch to a kilometer or extra (relying upon native situations).  The mesh is configured with a base knowledge fee/modulation, with mesh nodes in a position to negotiate with neighbors to “gear shift” to a distinct knowledge fee as required by utility specifics.

The Catalyst IR8100 Heavy Responsibility Collection Industrial Router would be the first member of the Cisco Resilient Mesh resolution to be FAN 1.1 licensed.   Given its rugged design for harsh outside environments, versatile backhaul configuration, and safety capabilities, the IR8140 is a perfect FAN 1.1 Border Router.  A person IR8140 can root a mesh of hundreds of FAN 1.1 units, with thousands and thousands of scale gadget networks achieved with the deployment of extra IR8140s.   Following the IR8140, the IR510 Industrial Router, IR530 Vary Extender, and Cisco Resilient Mesh Endpoint SDK will even be scheduled for FAN 1.1 certification, rounding out a whole Cisco FAN 1.1 portfolio of Border Routers, Routers, and endpoint design SDK.

“As utility endpoints change into smarter by adopting an IP-based community, it turns into crucial to handle the workflows of the sphere space community with safety and scale” stated Lakshmi Narayana Jammi, Product Supervisor at Cisco Industrial IoT. “Wi-SUN addresses this problem within the area space community by enabling completely different distributors to interoperate and talk securely from the shopper edge to the utility management heart by adopting open-source protocols validated at scale to fulfill the rising wants of the IoT FAN trade.  Adopting a Wi-SUN normal should be seen as a crucial milestone to permit vendor interoperability and varied companies to be onboarded to the present Area Space Community.

Cisco’s Wi-SUN resolution gives options which can be Wi-SUN 1.0 and likewise covers the upcoming Wi-SUN 1.1 use instances, corresponding to gear shifting and assist for low-energy units. Cisco gives a safe, scalable, and simplistic onboarding course of and assist clients choose backhaul choices to move the information securely from the shopper edge to the utility management heart and handle the lifecycle of all of the communication belongings in a scalable method.”

Giant FAN 1.1 networks require a community administration system in a position to present lifecycle administration for million node networks.  Cisco IoT Area Community Director is goal constructed and area confirmed to handle these large-scale networks.

“The Wi-SUN Alliance is thrilled to see the brand new capabilities of FAN 1.1 coming to fruition” stated Phil Beecher, President and CEO of the Wi-SUN Alliance.  “The addition of low energy operation and excessive efficiency RF to Wi-SUN FAN 1.1 allows use instances from very low energy water and fuel metering purposes all the best way as much as excessive efficiency distribution automation capabilities required by crucial utility and good metropolis operations.  All of the whereas offering enterprise class safety inside a multi-vendor, interoperable ecosystem”.

For extra details about the Wi-SUN Alliance and Area Space Community 1.1, head over to the Wi-SUN FAN data website.

Additionally see this extra details about Cisco Resilient Mesh merchandise and Cisco Area Community Director.

Lastly, in case you are attending DISTRIBUTECH subsequent week, be a part of us at Sales space 1135 to see the Catalyst IR8140 and our IoT Area Community Director in particular person, as effectively key options to assist utilities with their grid modernization tasks in grid safety, substation automation, distribution automation, renewable vitality, and extra.

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