Arcom's industrial network gateway incorporates Ember's EM2420, a platform that combines a 2.4-GHz radio transceiver chip with an embedded ZigBee-ready networking stack and development environment.
The network gateway is powered by a Viper single-board computer that uses embedded Linux combined with IBM's J2ME embedded Java product to create a platform with integrated MQTT (telemetry transport) and device management support.
Combined with Ember's wireless technology, it pumps ZigBee network data from remote devices to IBM's WebSphere MQ Integrator, a publish and subscribe information broker. The gateway can be linked to enterprise networks using a standard LAN connection, 802.11b Wi-Fi or via a digital cellular network.
From the broker, information can be distributed on a "one-to-many" basis and delivered directly to multiple applications using the MQSeries messaging middleware. The scheme supplies event-driven, real-time data to applications within the enterprise.
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