Stop Pulling Cables.
Connect Your Brownfield Factory Instantly.
Eliminate concrete trenching costs and slip ring failures. Our industrial WiFi Mesh and Layer 2 transparent bridges seamlessly connect isolated PLCs and moving equipment (cranes/AGVs) to your SCADA—acting as an invisible Ethernet cable.
Explore Mesh Architecture ↓The Nightmare of Brownfield Networking
Trenching Concrete Costs
Customer wants to add a new water tank to the SCADA system, but it’s 300 feet across a busy factory floor. Trenching concrete and laying fiber is completely out of the budget.
Slip Ring & Festoon Failures
Overhead cranes and moving AGVs constantly wear out and break their physical festoon cables. These hardware failures lead to unpredictable and expensive unplanned downtime.
Layer 2 Protocol Drops
Consumer WiFi routers block multicast packets. Try passing Profinet or EtherNet/IP through a cheap wireless bridge, and your remote I/O will constantly drop and fault out.
Our Strategy: Industrial Mesh & Roaming
1. 802.11s True Mesh Networking (No Line-of-Sight)
Factory floors are full of metal tanks and obstacles. Our gateways form a self-healing Multi-hop Mesh Network. If one path is blocked, the signal automatically routes through another node to ensure data reaches the SCADA.
2. 802.11r Fast Roaming for Moving Equipment
Perfect for overhead cranes. As the crane moves down the track, the wireless bridge hands off the connection to the next access point in milliseconds, keeping the PLC connection perfectly stable without dropping packets.
3. Layer 2 Transparent Bridging (Profinet Ready)
It acts exactly like an invisible physical Ethernet cable. Fully supports Layer 2 transparency, meaning strict industrial protocols like Profinet, EtherNet/IP, and Modbus TCP pass through seamlessly without MAC address translation errors.
4. Built for High-Interference Environments
Worried about factory noise? Our nodes feature industrial-grade rugged enclosures, optimized dual-band concurrency, and a wide -40°C to 85°C operating range to ensure stability even alongside welding machines and large VFDs.
Common Engineering Scenarios
How to connect Profinet over WiFi without dropping packets?
Standard routers translate MAC addresses, breaking Profinet’s strict Layer 2 requirements. Using our gateways in WDS (Wireless Distribution System) Layer 2 Transparent mode preserves original MAC headers, allowing Profinet to pass flawlessly.
How to replace a broken festoon cable on an overhead crane?
Mount a Mesh Gateway on the crane cab and setup track-side access points. Utilizing 802.11r Fast Roaming, the crane maintains a continuous connection to the main PLC as it moves, eliminating physical cable wear entirely.
Factory Floor Wireless Topology
Click the nodes to see how we bypass obstacles and connect moving machinery.
Node Info
Plant-Floor Networking Stack
* Everything you need to deploy a robust, interference-resistant industrial wireless network in an afternoon.
| Component | Role in Brownfield Network | Features |
|---|---|---|
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Wireless Mesh Gateway VT-LTE400 Gateway → | Acts as Master, Relay, or Client node. Creates the invisible Ethernet backbone across your factory. |
• 802.11s Mesh & 802.11r Roaming • Includes Magnetic Extended Antennas • Layer 2 Transparent Bridging |
|
Industrial Unmanaged Switch Valtoris 5-Port / 8-Port Series | Aggregates multiple PLCs and HMIs inside a single remote cabinet to connect to one Wireless Gateway. |
• Plug-and-play Ethernet expansion • DIN-Rail mountable |
|
Edge Remote I/O Series |
Pairs seamlessly with Mesh network to collect analog and digital signals without needing a local PLC. Pro Tip: WiFi model works for standalone pumps! |
• 8 Channels (8DI / 8DO / 8AI) • Modbus TCP / RTU Support |
Download the Mesh & Bridging Setup Guide
Don’t let IT protocols confuse you. Get our engineer’s PDF guide on configuring 802.11s Mesh nodes and Layer 2 bridges.
WiFi_Mesh_Setup_Guide.pdf
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