Wireless Technology Selection Guide For Sub-Metering!
Wired solutions have been the norm for indoor building applications such as sub-metering and building automation, however, wireless technologies are starting to gain major traction, offering numerous benefits for such applications. These benefits include easier maintenance, installation flexibility, and effortless commissioning for quick rollouts, therefore, reducing the manpower required to maintain the network and creating significant cost savings.
As wireless technologies gain traction in Sub-Metering, choosing the right wireless solution is of utmost importance to ensure project longevity and reliable performance under all operating conditions. The larger the installation the more the reliability and scalability challenges grow as well.
Radiocrafts is world renowned for our embedded wireless expertise, especially in Smart Metering applications where we have worked with top tier players in the industry with an installation base of over 4 million RF modules. Radiocrafts is also supporting leading companies in the new and growing Sub-Metering market. From this gathered knowledge and our expertise of wireless technologies available in the market today, we have written a complete selection guide on choosing the optimal wireless technology for Sub-Metering installations.
In this selection guide we focus on 8 important topics to help you make the best technology decision including:
- Why wireless and not wired?
- Wireless challenges in Sub-Metering
- RIIM vs ZigBee vs Wi-SUN vs LoRa (Comparison of technologies)
- RIIM for Sub-Metering
- Why choose RIIM? (Radiocrafts’ leading Sub-GHz mesh solution optimised for Sub-Metering installations)
- What do our customers have to say?
- Summary: Why Sub-GHz Mesh?
- Take the next step with RIIM
Section 1: Why Wireless and Not Wired?
We start-off the guide by describing the drawbacks of wired solutions versus the advantages of wireless solutions. We go into detail on the higher costs, complexity, maintenance, and damage risks of wired solutions while also sharing the ease of installation, scalability, and adaptability of wireless solutions.
Section 2: Wireless Challenges In Sub-Metering
We share our expert insights in wireless challenges for the Sub-Metering market including the challenges of retrofitting into an existing older building complex. In addition, we describe the interference and range issues wireless technologies typically face to efficiently run a large installation in difficult radio environments such as buildings with thick concrete walls or underground parking lot.
Section 3: RIIM vs ZigBee vs Wi-SUN vs LoRa (Comparison of Technologies)
In this section we share the features, challenges, and strengths each technology possesses and how they perform in a Sub-Metering installation. We compare features such as MHz versus GHz frequencies, data rate, max outdoor and indoor range, network topology, reliability, scalability, among other features and how these differences pose a strength or challenge for Sub-Metering networks.
Section 4 and 5: RIIM For Sub-Metering & Why Choose RIIM
Next, we take a deep dive into Radiocrafts’ Industrial IP Mesh solution, RIIM, and the various features, strengths, and challenges it offers for Sub-Metering.
These benefits RIIM offer for Sub-Metering includes:
- Granular monitoring for frequent polling of sub-meters (several times a second)
- Easy customisation capabilities to tweak the network solution to the installers exact requirements
- Efficient scalability to have a network with up to 1000 sub-meters
- Pre-certified modules for a fast to market experience
- Symmetric uplink and downlink communication for efficient command controls and data acquisition
- Time synchronized network for unmatched reliability with 99.99% data transmission success rates
- High data throughput for the high data requirements needed from a Sub-Metering installation
- Easy commissioning and maintenance with the mesh topology
- Long range to cover a campus wide installation or massive skyscraper with just a single gateway
These benefits and how they can optimise your wireless Sub-Metering installation are explained in detail within the guide.
Section 6: What Our Customers Have To Say
Radiocrafts high quality, high performance and cost effective RIIM modules have helped our customers get fast to market in a wide variety of wireless long range applications including Sub-Metering.
In this section we share some quotes from customers who have successful RIIM projects active in the field today.
Section 7: Summary: Why Sub-GHz Mesh?
Here we reiterate the importance of picking the best wireless solution for your Sub-Metering installation to minimize reliability and coverage issues. With the wrong technology these challenges only worsen as projects scale in size, driving up maintenance complexity and costs.
RIIM Sub-GHz mesh offers 99.99% data transmission reliability, long range to cover a campus wide or large building installation, scalability to reliably connect up to 1000 sub-meters, and has a future proof build to support your projects for decades to come.
Section 8: Take The Next Step With RIIM
In this final section we share the fact that you can get started with RIIM today by buying a Development Kit for real-world testing in Sub-Metering applications. You can also book a live demo with us at your installation site.
Download the Wireless Technology Selection Guide For Sub-Metering from our website to learn more about how you can optimize your Sub-Metering installations with Sub-GHz Mesh radio!
