4G Communication Module for Smart Meter Celluar Data Collection System

Company Profile
Willfar Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Established in 2004;
- Listed on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in December 2019;
- Leading supplier of meter reading (AMI) equipment and operation service;
- The first company to develop "One DCU Reading Multi-meter" solution in China;
- The first company to have large-scale application of technologies and systems like "CPU smart-card Charge and Control", "One DCU Reading Multi-meter", LoRa-based RF Communication and "District Metering Area (DMA)”

Introduction

- The 4G Cellular module is GSM-based wireless packet switched technology used to provide end-to-end wide area wireless IP connections, which can transfers data to users in “Packet” mode at a high-speed. The Cellular module has prominent advantages in many aspects such as the transfer rate, wireless resource management and billing.


Technical Parameters

4G Module

UART Interface
Various interfaces in 4G Module to connect Meter

Certificate

CE

Features

1. GSM/GPRS (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)/ UMTS (B1/B8 )/ FDD
LTE (B1/B3/ B8)
TDD LTE (B38/B39/B40/B41)
2. Over the Air Update
3. Supports TCP/UDP/FTP/DNS protocol
4. Remote SMS configuration
5. Control Via AT Commands
6. Supports USB2.0 slave mode
7. Update via USB Port
8. Data transfer
•FDD LTE
- Max.100Mbps (DL), Max.50Mbps (UL)
•TDD LTE
- Max.61Mbps (DL), Max.18Mbps (UL)
•HSPA+
- Max. 14.4Mbps (DL), Max.5.76Mbps (UL)
•WCDMA
- Max.384Kbps(DL), Max.384Kbps(UL)
•EDGE Class:
- Max. 236.8Kbps(DL),Max. 236.8Kbps(UL)
•GPRS
- Max. 85.6Kbps(DL), Max. 85.6Kbps(UL)

Reading Instruction

1. Power LED with green always on
2. Network LED with red always blink
3. RXD LED with red will be blink when it send data
4. TXD LED with green will be blink when it receive data
5. SIM card pedestal for installing SIM card
6. Main chip(on the bottom side) is a dual frequency for GSM/GPRS/UMTS/LTE chip
7. Antenna pedestal with SMA type
8. Super capacitor for pushing last gasp

Function

A 4G Module is composed of several elements, including:

1. CPU is a dual frequency for GSM/GPRS and UMTS chip
2. Watch Dog chip to control power supply
3. Antenna pedestal with SMA type
4. SIM card pedestal for installing SIM card
5. LED display to indicate network status
6. DC/DC power supply to adjust voltage for GPRS CPU

Situation

For smart meter required communication function. Pluggable.

Dimension

Introduction

As the first company in Hunan Province to be listed on SSE STAR Market, Willfar is the pioneer manufacturer in China that can simultaneously provide related industries with all kinds of advanced electricity, water, gas and heat metering products and meters for power distribution, power quality monitoring equipment, a full range of energy data concentrators, relay protection equipment, switchgear products and equipment related to metering automation system and all kinds of application systems as well as services which cover the demand of the whole process of energy production, distribution, transmission and consumption.

Willfar Information Technology Co., Ltd always focuses on customers and takes full control of products’ delivery and deployment, including the process of designing, testing and experimenting as well as the manufacturing process of raw material. We attach great importance to production control plan, potential failure mode and product reliability design which require us to implement the production approval procedure and control the production process strictly so as to ensure the products’ quality.

On November 4, 2013, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, visited Wasion in Changsha. He visited the product showroom and production workshops, where he talked with workers and labor models. Xi spoke highly of Wasion's achievements in product development and market expansion and encouraged the company to step up innovation in technology, management, product, marketing and branding.

So far, Willfar has 396 valid patents, of which 26 are invention patents, 240 pieces for utility model, 130 pieces for design and 442 software copyrights; it has also received 10 technical awards of provincial or ministerial level or above. Willfar has participated in the setting of 15 national industry standards, 10 of which have been published.

Willfar Information Technology Co., Ltd takes "smart manufacturing capability" as one of its core competing powers by realizing the whole process data tracing and full-lifecycle management of product design, processing, procurement, production, logistics and service via SCM, CRM and APS on the basis of ERP, PDM, PLM and MES.

So far, Willfar has 396 valid patents, of which 26 are invention patents, 240 pieces for utility model, 130 pieces for design and 442 software copyrights; it has also received 10 technical awards of provincial or ministerial level or above. Willfar has participated in the setting of 15 national industry standards, 10 of which have been published.

The smart manufacturing technology research project of Willfar is the upgrading and reconstruction of the production facility which is about 100,000 square meters. It will become a leading digital factory with full coverage of information system, high level of production technology and automation.