Radiocrafts’ RC232 and RIIM product lines offer a simple-to-use and high-performance wireless extension of RS232 and RS485 industrial fieldbuses.

You can read more about this in our newest application note, ANO53: Wireless Extension of Industrial Fieldbuses.

Benefits of Wireless Extensions of Fieldbuses:

Key benefits of switching to wireless systems include but are not limited to:

• Avoid high costs of buying, installing, and maintaining cables.
• Avoid cables forming an obstacle for your factory workers, machinery, and robots.
• Wireless systems are more mobile and can be mounted anywhere.
• Going wireless can also offer added features to the system which were previously unavailable, for example, increasing the range of the system with a multi-hop mesh network such as RIIM.

Benefits of Using RS232 & RS485 Over Radiocrafts’ RC232 Solution:

Key benefits of switching to a Wireless RC232 network include but are not limited to:

• Simple, easy-to-use, and high-performance cable replacement and networking protocol embedded in a module.
• Proven technology with over 17 years of experience in the field.
• Point to point, point to multi-point, peer to peer networks, and a multi-hop option.
• Controlled with an easy UART interface.
• Native support for RS232 and RS485, no additional code or connection adjustments required.
• Data rates ranging from 1.2 kbps to 100 kbps on the RF side.
• Frequency ranges from 169 MHz – 2.4 GHz for global support.
• Bi-directional, transparent data communication.

Benefits of Using RS232 & RS485 Over Radiocrafts’ RIIM Solution:

Key benefits of switching to a Wireless RIIM network include but are not limited to:

• RIIM operates in the 868 MHz or 915 MHz frequency band. (Contact sales@radiocrafts.com for 433 MHz inquiries)
• Link Layer Security & DTLS/TLS
• Multicast
• Time-synchronized events
• High throughput in Europe by implementing Polite Spectrum Access schemes
• Supports both CoAP and UDP protocols
• Supports up to a thousand nodes organized in a mesh network-topology.
• Line of Sight (LoS) range of up to 5 km in normal power module and more than 20 km in the high-power module.
• 2-way symmetrical communication with OTA (Over the air) updates.
• Very short network delays for near real time applications.
• Cloud application compatible via IP packets to each mesh router.

Interested in testing RIIM and RC232 for your own cable replacement project? Buy a development kit at Digi-Key or from a distribution partner near you!