Acksys rugged wireless equipment range

Acksys provides a range of ruggedised wireless equipment for industrial and transportation applications using the Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n standard in 2.4 and 5.x GHz bands.

This range features: ‘Aboard’ and ‘Road’ ranges for rail and road transport sectors; ‘Aboard’ products certified to EN50155; temperature hardened for -40 to +70°C operation (typical); environmentally sealed to IP66; lightning/surge protection built in; wide power supply voltage - typically +9 to +70 VDC; tough die-cast aluminium construction; easy mounting tabs for secure fixing in vehicles.

The system also has a removable ‘C-Key’ which stores all configuration data and allows instant equipment swap-out and data restore functionality.

The system includes point-to-point, point-to-multipoint and wireless mesh technologies and is suitable for long-range line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight operation. Applications include: access points, bridges, bridge-routers, repeaters and serial to wireless gateways.

It is capable of interface to truck telemetry and fleet management systems and can stream data from rolling stock to station; wirelessly connect RS232, RS422, RS485 serial equipment together; build a wireless bridge between a serial MODBUS network and MODBUS/TCP; wirelessly connect ethernet, MODBUS/TCP, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, DNP3 equipment.