Arduino Partners with RAKwireless on New WisGate Indoor, Outdoor LoRaWAN Gateways
Available for wide-coverage indoor or outdoor deployment, Arduino's latest entries in the Pro range take aim at simplifying connectivity.
Arduino has unveiled two new LoRaWAN gateways, built in partnership with RAKwireless, with which it hopes to make wide-area sensor networks easier to build and deploy both indoors and out: the new WisGate gateways.
"We’re happy to announce the launch of two new ready-to-use, industrial-grade gateways for LoRaWAN connectivity for indoor and outdoor use, resulting from Arduino Pro’s partnership with RAKwireless," the Arduino team announced today. "The WisGate Edge Lite 2 and WisGate Edge Pro ensure secure and reliable connectivity for a wide range of professional applications. They’re suitable for medium-sized to wide area coverage in industrial environments and remote regions.Smart cities and smart agriculture to logistics and building automation. The sky’s the limit!"
The refreshed gateway family is made up of two launch models. The first, the WisGate Edge Lite 2, is designed for indoor use, claiming an enclosure built for efficient cooling and enough power to cover multi-story buildings. The WisGate Edge Pro offers a weatherproof housing for outdoor use and support for on-pole or DIN-rail mounting — plus a dual LoRaWAN concentrator, offering 16 LoRa channels to the eight of the WisGate Edge Lite 2.
In both cases, the gateways offer a choice of Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or cellular back-haul connectivity, an SD Card slot for local data logging, a customised OpenWRT distribution dubbed WisGateOS, and support for Power over Ethernet (PoE). Regardless of model chosen, Arduino claims the gateways offer the company's "signature user-friendly approach" to deployment and operation including simplified setup, a range of tutorial documentation, and built-in diagnostics.
Arduino is showcasing the new gateways at Booth 36A of the LoRaWAN Alliance World Expo in Paris this week, alongside RAKwireless. Neither, however, are yet available to buy — and Arduino has yet to share pricing information.
Those after more details can visit Arduino's official product page, where you will also find a sign-up form to be notified when the gateways go on sale.