Transforms Industrial Plant Maintenance through OpreX™ Brand Wireless Solution that Incorporates MultiTech’s LoRaWAN® IoT gateway.
Multi-Tech Systems, Inc. today announced that its MultiConnect® Conduit® IP67 Base Station, a LoRaWAN® ruggedized IoT gateway, was selected by Yokogawa Electric Corporation for its Sushi Sensor solution, which was recently launched in Europe.
Yokogawa’s new LoRaWAN compliant solution was developed for deployment within industrial plants; covers vast areas; has environmental resistance features to support heavy-duty use; and works in combination with advanced analytics such as AI and machine learning in a cloud environment. MultiTech’s LoRaWAN gateway solution captures and manages the information detected from sensors within the solution.
“We are honored that Yokogawa selected our IoT gateway to be used within their new Sushi Sensor,” said CEO of MultiTech, Stefan Lindvall.
“Yokogawa is successfully leveraging cutting-edge IoT technologies to open up new opportunities for its customers to apply revolutionary new communications solutions to remote access monitoring.”
Sushi Sensor is an OpreX™ Asset Management and Integrity wireless solution for the Industrial IoT. The first product, the XS770A, originally launched in Japan in 2018, can measure vibration and surface temperature to monitor machine or equipment conditions for industrial use. Since it complies with LoRaWAN, which is a low-power wide-area (LPWA) network for long-distance communication, the XS770A can be deployed anywhere in a plant and cover a vast area. It also has environmental resistance features to support heavy-duty use (IP66/67, explosion proof).
“Our decision to work with MultiTech was based on its compatibility with LoRaWAN and its flexibility to support both cloud-based and on-premise network architectures,” said Shuichi Takai, senior manager at Yokogawa. “The Conduit IP67 gateway is durable enough for the harsh environments we encounter within production sites, and we found the Conduit IP67 to be technically advanced and stable.”
