User Manual
Condor 415U-1-Cx Battery Powered Wireless IO
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415U-1-Cx Overview
Introduction
The ELPRO 415U-1-Cx battery wireless IO unit provides wireless connectivity to remote sensors for
monitoring of critical and non-critical parameters in water/waste water, environmental, factory, plant
process, oil and gas or a variety of other applications.
The 415U-1-Cx is self-contained with internal wireless communications, sensor IO processing, battery,
solar regulator and sensor IO terminations within a IP66 weatherproof enclosure design for harsh
industrial environments.
This unit is designed to operate at ultra-low energy consumption with long life from internal lithium
non-rechargeable or where extra sensor power consumption is required from rechargeable lithium
battery and solar panel with an internal MPTT regulator.
The 415U-1-Cx provides wireless connectivity to the ELPRO high performance Condor series radio and
allows networking into the 415U-2-Cx or 415U-E-Cx unit utilising licenced or unlicenced wireless
technologies supported in a majority of world regions.
System Design
The Condor series 415U-1-Cx wireless connectivity to its sensor inputs through either Condor 415U-E-
Cx or 415U-2-Cx wireless modem or IO units. These units will collect the IO data from the 415U-1-Cx
units in internal registers which can then be distributed to other units in the system or read by SCADA
or DCS.
The 415U-E-Cx or 415U-2-Cx units can be configured as either base, repeater or mesh node. The
415U-1-Cx unit is designed to make a point-to-point connection to a network access point (AP), which
can be a 415U-E-Cx or 415U-2-Cx setup in base, repeater, and mesh node operating modes.
The Access Point allows the concentration of the IO from one or many 415U-1-Cx units in its internal
registers. Then this IO data can either be pulled by Modbus TCP or DNP3 in SCADA applications or for
point-to-point IO through normal ELPRO WibMesh mappings in the AP to distribute the IO to other
nodes in the network.
Below is a simple example connection of 415U-1-Cx sensor IO with a 415U-2-Cx AP.
Sensor IO data can be discrete input values as ON/OFF or pulsed, analog 4-20mA inputs or internal
diagnostic values such as battery voltage, solar or supply input voltage, connectivity status, received
signal strength and many more.
The 415U-1-Cx unit is designed to operate from its internal battery for several years depending on the
application and senor inputs connected. The very low current consumption of the unit is achieved by
using lower power modes (sleeping) for periods between sample the sensor inputs and the ability to
be configured to only send data changes infrequently on change of state events (COS) or on timed
communications check transmissions or updates.
