Advantech EKI-1360-BE Series, User Manual

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1.1 Overview
Advantech's EKI-1360-BE Series of Industrial Device Servers are a robust, feature-
rich, and cost-effective way to network-enable equipment in an industrial automation
environment. The EKI-1360-BE Series provides one or two serial ports,
802.11a/b/g/n wireless LAN interface to connect any RS-232/422/485 devices to
wireless LAN. These wireless serial device servers provide serial-to-wireless network
connectivity as an alternative to wired Ethernet connectivity and enable virtually any
serial device or equipment to be remotely accessed, controlled, monitored, or shared
on an 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network.
By encapsulating serial data and transporting it over Ethernet, the EKI-1360-BE
Series allows virtual serial links over Ethernet IP-based networks. After the
Advantech Serial Device Server Configuration Utility is installed, a standard serial
operation calls with virtual COM port could be transparently redirected to the serial
device servers, guaranteeing compatibility with legacy serial devices and enabling
backward compatibility with existing software. EKI-1360-BE Series also supports
serial tunneling, allowing two native serial devices to communicate over a network
without any hosts or programming. As a result, you can extend a limited distance,
point-to-point, direct serial connections within the plant, throughout the factory, the
facility, the office building, or across the global enterprise.
The EKI-1360-BE Series provides an impressive list of features and functions
enabling multiple industrial devices to be connected, controlled, configured,
managed, and updated over a network. With serial ports and 802.11a/b/g/n wireless
LAN, the EKI-1360-BE Series easily connects multiple serial devices to a network.
The transmission speed of the EKI-1360-BE Series is up to 921.6 Kbps totally
outstripping the competition to meet the demand for high-speed exchange.
Functionally transparent and efficient, the EKI-1360-BE Series is specially designed
for remotely controlling and monitoring devices via the Internet.
The EKI-1360-BE Series provides roaming ability. EKI-1360-BE Series can migrate
from AP to AP during certain condition. In some field applications, the device can't
use a fixed physical connection, such as AGV, transportation, and cross wide space
communication. EKI-1360-BE Series can easily installed to fulfill this requirement.
With a compact size and lightweight design, the EKI-1360-BE Series can be installed
in moving vehicles without much extra wight.
Types of supported devices:
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Human Machine Interface (HMI)
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Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)
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Flow meters
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Temperature / pressure monitoring equipment
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Gas leak detection device
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Scales
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Power monitoring equipment
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Data Acquisition Modules
The EKI-136X series provides various operation modes: COM port redirection
(Virtual COM port), TCP/UDP server/client mode. Serial devices can be connected
by means of multi-access modes.