Autonomous Gateway with Embedded LoRaWAN® Network Server

Unlock the Power of Data with ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One

Today’s enterprise landscape is all about transforming raw data into actionable insights for optimized processes. To succeed in this journey, you need powerful, flexible, and scalable IoT platforms. This is where ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One (TAO) comes into play.

What Sets TAO Apart

Designed specifically for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), TAO not only simplifies IoT project execution but also ensures robust security and rapid deployment. Unlike basic open-source solutions, TAO’s unique LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) is fully maintained by Actility’s dedicated technical team, ensuring future-proof services while also allowing for data backup – an offering competitors can’t match.

TAO champions cost-effective scalability by natively supporting numerous connectors, providing BACNET gateway compatibility, and ensuring seamless integration with various applications. Additionally, the device battery consumption optimization is unmatched, employing an advanced ADR algorithm used by all tier 1 operators utilizing ThingPark.

Flexibility and Freedom

TAO provides you with the flexibility of not being tied to a single gateway. In the event of an outage, data can be easily exported from your gateway to another – a unique feature. The preloaded device catalog in TAO enables swift standalone deployment.

Scale As You Grow

TAO serves as a robust standalone version of ThingPark Enterprise, addressing the needs of a single-gateway industrial deployment without necessitating additional components or recurring charges. This fully autonomous solution accelerates adoption, offers one-click automation, and seamlessly scales a network of gateway solutions.

A Tailored Solution for Every Stage

Pioneering in IoT

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For those beginning their IoT journey, TAO is a cost-effective on-premises solution enabling fast deployment without RF redundancy. Ideal for autonomous small branch offices, warehouses, restaurants, or outdoor facilities, it allows for manageable scale experimentation.

Seamless Migration and Expansion

  • Do you foresee future upscale towards a multi-gateway deployment architecture to extend your RF coverage and capacity?
  • Do you plan on upscaling towards a fully resilient fault tolerant IoT architecture supporting geo-redundancy?
  • Do you want to increase your device volume to (hundreds of) thousands of devices?
  • Or do you plan on progressively enriching your Operational & Maintenance System with native system alarms?

As your enterprise evolves, TAO scales with you. Supporting up to 300 devices, TAO seamlessly integrates with your applications. When ready, migrate smoothly to full-edition ThingPark Enterprise products for carrier-grade redundant architecture. TAO’s design ensures minimal disruption during upscale, transferring your session context securely in minutes, without the need for a physical device reset or complex export & import operations using non-standardized data formats.

TAO in Action

TAO’s robust and flexible features find applications across various sectors:

Small Scale IoT Deployments and Proof-of-Concepts: Real-world testing of IoT potential in small warehouses, isolated facilities, or restaurants.

Scalable IoT Deployments: Supporting up to 300 devices without compromising performance or security for growing businesses.

Industrial IoT Applications: Enabling use cases like predictive maintenance, real-time asset tracking, and environmental monitoring.

ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One

Dive into detail: why choose ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One?

ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One (TAO) allows you to leverage the best-in-class LoRaWAN network server deployed by most tier-one LoRaWAN service/solution providers.

  • Support any LoRaWAN-compliant sensor without exclusion:
    • All LoRaWAN device classes: A, B, C.
    • All LoRaWAN activation modes: Activation by Personalization (ABP) or Over-the-Air Activation (OTAA).
    • All LoRaWAN MAC versions: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 and 1.1.
  • Deploy your IoT services anywhere: ThingPark supports all the LoRaWAN Regional Profiles.
  • Best-in-class MAC layer management:
    • Embedded Join Server function.
    • Uplink frame deduplication (e.g., in case of device repetitions).
    • Optimized retransmission mechanisms of LoRaWAN MAC commands: learning algorithm to optimize the retransmission of MAC commands that are either not answered or rejected by the device. This feature helps increase the radio interface capacity and minimize interferences.
    • Optimum selection of the device’s downlink receive window (RX1/RX2), boosting both RF link budget and overall downlink capacity.
    • Queuing of application downlink frames for class A devices.
    • MAC-level acknowledgments.
    • Replay attack detection and mitigation.
  • Best-in-class self-organizing Adaptive Data Rate (ADR):
    • Dynamically adapt the device’s transmission parameters (TxPower, number of transmissions, data rate) according to the quality of the device-gateway radio link.
    • Minimize the device’s battery consumption while fulfilling the target quality metrics (especially the uplink packet error rate).
    • Adjust its reactivity to avoid too volatile decisions (increasing signaling overhead induced by MAC commands) while ensuring reactive mitigation to abrupt RF changes.
  • Value-added / future proof services:
    • Passive Roaming, using both v1.0 and v1.1 of the LoRaWAN™ Backend Interfaces standard.
    • Multicast, optimizing downlink spectral efficiency to support firmware upgrade over the air (FUOTA) and smart lighting use-cases.
  • Leverage all the strength and simplicity offered by the built-in Node-RED module to interface with your external applications.
  • Node-RED provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using a wide range of nodes.
  • Off-the-shelf HTTP & MQTT nodes.
  • A built-in MQTT broker. ThingPark Enterprise All-in-One comes pre-configured with default MQTT flows for both uplink and downlink.
  • ModBus & BACNet nodes.
  • Use Node-RED editor to define specific routing/parsing functions and configure other protocol types.
  • Exchange decoded payloads between ThingPark and your application servers, thanks to the built-in catalog of payload drivers (450+), delivering ready-to-use decoded payloads to your applications.
  • Enriched reporting towards Application Servers:
    • Uplink Frame Report: uplink payload with rich set of metadata and decoded payloads.
    • Downlink Frame Sent Report: notify Application Servers about the transmission status of each DL message, including failure cause (radio congestion, duty cycle constraint…).
    • Device Notification events: in case of “Join” event, reporting of device’s battery status.
    • Multicast Summary Reports.
  • Zero-touch bootstrapping and maintenance through ThingPark Infrastructure Commissioning Service, offering plug & play user experience.
  • Ready-to-use Device Profile Catalog, including generic profiles andvendor-specific models from over 120 LoRaWAN device manufacturers.
  • Ready-to-use RF Region catalog, supporting all the LoRaWAN regional profiles; including optimized RF channel plans and radio configuration parameters.
  • Intuitive User Interface to simplify your configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting tasks.

 

  • System backup and restore through the graphical user interface. A backup may be restored on any gateway hardware: a very valuable feature in disaster recovery situations.
  • System supervision through graphical representation of CPU/RAM/disk load over time:
  • Easy mass provisioning of devices, by importing a csv files.
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