Technical description
Ruggedized for industrial use providing industry popular interfaces including serial RS232/RS485, numerous binary I/O´s or GNSS routers ICR-2834 offer detailed LED indication and powerful CPU, long lifecycle (software updates) and broad software customization possibilities for users. On project-based agreement, we can optionally add a TPM 2.0 chip (Trusted Platform Module) onboard verifying router integrity to provide a trusted solution as a response to increasing cybersecurity demands. Cybersecurity resilience would be also increased by producing this router under specific PN as IEC 62443-4-2 SL2 Certified Router.
The cellular router is equipped with 2 × Ethernet 10/100 ports with two independent LANs/IP addresses, 1 × USB 2.0 host port, 2 × serial ports RS232/RS485 independently selectable by DIP switch, 2 × plate covered SIM card holders for automatic failover to an alternate service provider, 4 × binary inputs (I/O), 2 × binary outputs (I/O) and onboard GNSS receiver for device positioning and time synchronization. Optional built-in WiFi 802.11 ac,a,b,g,n with AP, Client, and Multirole modes are available.
The router is powered by Linux-based Advantech´s operating system ICR-OS. A secure web interface allows users to configure ICR-2834 from remote locations. ICR-2834 supports real-time data encryption and VPN tunneling using IPsec, WireGuard, OpenVPN, GRE, etc. It supports standard and advanced networking features like DHCP, NAT, NAT-T, DynDNS, NTP, VRRP, control by SMS, and other features.
The 1.3 GB eMMC available storage for customers with an open Linux platform and the wide possibility of programming customer SW applications in Python and C/C++ ICR-2834 offers a real open development platform for Industrial IoT applications. Advantech existing Router App library (User modules) includes industrial protocol conversions, dynamic protocols, and support of IoT platforms such as MS Azure, Cumulocity, and others.
ICR-2834 is easy to install individually and in mass deployments too by using a full-featured management, provisioning and monitoring software tool WebAccess/DMP.
Popular use cases include PLC connection and various industrial automation and industry 4.0 applications, camera connection (streets/highways/parking, etc.), mobile signs and warning systems, wind turbines and solar power stations connection, measuring and monitoring systems in transportation, remote access for maintenance staff or electricity, gas or petrol distribution. ICR-2834 to be designed to provide a high compatibility alternative for most of the previous v2 router platform users and with extended memory and TPM chip brings advantages also to newly developed sectors in public, industrial or IoT environment.
