Raveon’s smart data radio modems are well-suited for wireless process control, wireless SCADA and wireless telemetry applications. With the fastest transmit/receive turn around time in the VHF/UHF radio modem business, your polled telemetry system will operate fast and efficient. The Myriad of IO option on Raveon’s M21 Tech Series radio modems interface directly with user equipment.

Private Wireless Reduces Utility Costs

Making a secure and private wireless telemetry network. Raveon’s smart radio modems have outstanding features and functions for wireless telemetry to cover whole cities and counties with no recurring costs.

Cities, Building owners, Capuses, and managers can recover and reduce utility costs within their facilities through wireless utility monitoring water leak detection & alarming and thermostat control systems.
These systems boost property value while reduce energy consumption costs.

Features

• Cover your whole area, city, state, country,… with Raveon’s private wireless system.
• Private wireless has no monthly costs, and is Secure, and it is NOT connected to Cellular international servers.
• RS232, RS422, USB, GPIO and RS485 serial interfaces
• Easy to use with built-in smart radio modem. Data In = Data Out.
• Works with MODBUS, DNP, and most serial SCADA protocols.
• These Smart Modems have telemetry and SCADA features integrated in them so they can function as a complete Remote Terminal Unit (RTU).
• 1/2-5 watts of RF output in the 450-480MHz (other bands available)
• The M21 Tech Series has built in general purpose IO features to monitor and control utility hardware without the need for external RTUs.
• Range of 5-50 miles
• Ultra-fast T-R switching time of 3mS
• Store-and-forward repeater capability to Mesh remote devices.
• Build in over-the-air EAS encryption.
• Exceeding all FCC part 22 and 90 requirements
• Remote “Ping” capability to diagnose the system.
• Smart radio modems like Raveon’s are complete systems on a module (SOM) 100+ features are withing our radio modems.

Products for the Utilities Management Industry

Remote Autonomous Zone Nodes (RAZN)

Wireless long-range RTU Remote Terminal Unit created by Raveon to make RTUs long-range, low-cost, and a myriad of Autonomous featured.
Raveon’s Remote Autonomous Zone Node (RAZN) is a compact, cost-effective package with many IO options and many different version. Locally and remotely monitor sensors, buttons, switches, and locally link or remotely control what you want.

Wireless long-range Remote Autonomous Zone Node (RAZN) is for smart SCADA and Telemetry nodes with general purpose control capability in a compact, cost-effective package.

This RAZN product has many wireless communication features, and Ethernet TCP/IP interface also.

The Myriad of IO features the RAZN technology has, is shown on the  RAZN IO Terminal Versions web page. Many different IO features!

Wireless Sensors in Your Utility

Individuals and organizations can use wireless sensors with many different kinds of smart applications.

A wireless sensor is a device that can gather sensory information and detect changes in local environments. The sensor can be a “wired” sensor, and it can connect to a smart Raveon Radio.
Sensors can connect in many different ways:

1. RS-232 serial port.  The RV-M7, RV-M21 and RV-M22 have RS-232 serial ports on them to connect to your sensor.
2. RS-485 or RS-422 serial port.  The RV-M21 and RV-M22 have RS-485 or RS-422 serial ports on them to connect to your sensor.
3. Voltage Input. The RV-M21G and RV-M22G Tech series radios have analog inputs to measure and transmit voltage readings.
4. 4-20mA inputs.  With a resistor, the RV-M21G and RV-M22G Tech series radios have analog inputs to measure and transmit current readings.
5. Digital inputs and outputs. The RV-M21G and RV-M22G Tech series radios with FIO interface have Flexible TTL IO interfaces.
6. Pulse Counters.  The RV-M21G and RV-M22G GPIO nad FIO interfaces count digital pulses, and you can query them with MODBUS to get the count.
7. On the GPIO radio, you can connect SCADA Sensors to Monitor that output 4-20mA. The GPIO will mimic the sensor a long ways away to this modem with Current Loop Output CLO that will output the 4-20mA signal in.

Raveon’s radios are Long Range data radios.

Star typologies rely on the wireless data links between the sensor and the central hub. Range can be an issue since there is no means for an intermediate “hop” or repeater of the signal. Also, scaling depends on the gateway’s capacity to support additional nodes.

Our Radios and your system can be very long-range and cover wide area because:

1. All Raven Radios can be “store-foreward” repeaters.  Put one ore more on top hills or towers to cover large areas. These are reliable low-cost repeaters.
2. Our Cigorn Gateway can be used to connect dozens or hundreds of base stations to your system. Scaling depends on the gateway’s capacity to support additional nodes, and Cigorn makes this work easy and reliable.
3. The radio modem data rate can be set to the rate you need to be successful with.

For more information about RF Data communication, see this RF Range page.

All Raveon radios can “Repeat”  Don’t try to mesh!
There are a number of significant problems with mesh networks. Mesh networks require much more complicated protocols to form the network and relay data at run time. A major disadvantage is that mesh networks consume much more power than star typologies. Often mesh networks are used as a quick fix for the lack of range, making it harder to justify the costly up-front investment. The reliability of a mesh network relies on ALL radios, where a repeater system relies only on repeaters you install in reliable areas.

Daisy Chain your Network

Use long-range RF or Ethernet connections to remote areas, and then use a low-cost miniature RF modem to daisy-chain remote sensors to your long-range connections.

Raveon’s low-cost miniature radio modems for Daisy Chaining a network are:

RV-M6 module

Miniature Tech Series M22 Radio Modems