Gateway

The A2530E24A is a new Zigbee to Ethernet Gateway. It acts as a bridge between a Zigbee network and an Ethernet network. It is part of our Sensor2Server development kit.

= Quick Start = Read Sensor2Server Quick Start to get up and running with the development kit quickly.

= What it Does = The Gateway bridges a low power RF network with a local area network. This model supports Zigbee for the low power RF link and Ethernet for the LAN connection. This allows easy monitoring and control of sensor networks. The Gateway can be configured to work with most standard Zigbee applications, and works out of the box with the Simple Applications Examples included on the CC2530 Boosterpack.

The Gateway can work with any server that speaks its protocol. To help you get started we have partnered with Tesla Controls to provide their COIL Sensor to Server development environment to you. Refer to Sensor2Server Quick Start for how to get started with this. But the Gateway is not tied to this or any other server, you can just as easily build your own.

= What it Enables = Most Wireless Sensor Networks consist of: The Gateway enables the development of robust wireless sensor networks by shifting the Processing function from the local wireless nodes to a Server. The Server may be located immediately adjacent to the WSN, or could be in the same building, or across the globe. It does this by bridging the Zigbee network with the Ethernet network. It configures the Zigbee network and then forwards any data from Zigbee to Ethernet and vice-versa. While using the Gateway with one Zigbee network is handy, it really becomes useful when you need to provide a wireless sensor network across a large area - e.g. larger than a floor of a typical office building. For larger environments such as these you can now install a Gateway per floor or per area and then have these all communicate to one central server. This reduces the size of the wireless sensor network which greatly increases robustness. Since Zigbee is fairly low bandwidth (100kB or less in real life) the processing required by each Gateway is minimal. One server can easily process data from many Gateways.
 * Sensors - things that generate data, e.g. a temperature sensor
 * Processing - something that processes the received data, stores it, and generates commands, e.g. a rules engine running on a server
 * Actuators - things that do stuff, e.g. an electronic valve

= More Information = For more information see How It Works. The page detailing the Command Line Interface may be useful when configuring the Gateway.

The Gateway can be upgraded with new flash in the field. See Serial Flash Loading.