DISTINCTIVES IN INNOVATION
The IoT enabler
In the SunComm Group the products have been conceived and designed in the spirit of improving and simplifying access to digital resources for people.
The IoT of the SunComm Group, in all its forms both wearable and dedicated to things and goods, tends to improve the environmental conditions for people, enhances their capabilities through VR and AI to expand human possibilities.
The spirit is to change the man- made world to positively affect the social and natural world
Mesh Wi-Fi network integrating Edge Computing and multi radio gateways addressed to a distributed intelligence and connectivity
The proprietary SunComm platform, based on MQTT and SQL database, connects sensors to the Cloud or servers through open API in the most agile way
The use of the SunComm devices and platform - Wi-Fi mesh nodes, gateways, sensors, actuators - ensures fully scalable solutions and the legacy
Edge Computing has the capability to virtualise devices, so that allowing not only full usage of almost all sensors but also the creation of new virtual sensors by combining different sensors data
Mechatronic skills allow to tailor the IoT devices, especially in the wearable applications, in respect to safety and security needs and requirements
GROUP STRUCTURE
GROUP POSITIONING
IoT ENABLING TECHNOLOGY
The original idea was to integrate the nodes of a Wi-Fi Full Mesh network into LED lighting fixtures and to provide Wi-Fi connectivity “seamlessly” with lighting systems, be them industrial, commercial or public service.
Reios did invest in its long experience in designing and building custom lighting systems, for inside and outside use, to develop a complete, robust Mesh Wi-Fi infrastructure that uses custom components to grant unparalleled robustness and exclusive edge computing capabilities.
It means that Reios WiFi&Light® architecture does data processing locally, having a lot of power distributed along the network nodes, speeding up tremendously Application Response Time and effective Data transfer to the Central Enterprise IT systems.
Data transfer is done through MQTT protocols, which is designed to optimize, inter alia, Cloud systems data delivery.
PLATFORM BACKGROUND
A Wireless Mesh Network (WMNs) is a decentralized mesh network made of nodes (router mesh and client mesh), mutually connected by a link, overcoming therefore the relationship client/server, typical of a star type traditional wireless network. The mesh network is instead collaborative, and each node is capable to communicate directly with each other node, near (one-hop) or far (multi-hop).
This type of network is dynamically configuring itself and therefore is very robust: each node is capable to set and keep automatically the connection within the network, finding independently a solution when part of the network is damaged.
Mesh routers with gateway/bridge capabilities make also possible to specialize WMNs in specific type of networks: Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, Hyper-LAN, BLE, sensors or cellular networks. This way it allows to implement a new range of applications like Wide Band Wi-Fi, IoT Services, Smart Cities Services (for universities, shops, transport controls, etc.).
WiFi&Light opens the Wi-Fi WMNs to a large variety of applications.
MESH WI-FI NETWORK: WHAT IT IS
ARCHITECTURE
MESH NODES AND LIGHTING INTEGRATION
MQTT PROTOCOL
The use of the MQTT protocol to monitor, control and drive the network of IoT sensors/actuators
- preserving the legacy - leads to an architectural simplification and makes it
simple and immediate to provide the desired level of data abstraction to the Apps or Cloud.
REVENUE FROM
ENERGY SAVINGS
INFRASTRUCTURE
REVENUE FROM
IoT SERVICES
SERVICES IoT
Maximize Productivity, Innovation and
Minimize Risks and Costs
ADVANTAGE
Scalability
WiFi&Light® mesh networks can scale seamlessly to provide ubiquitous coverage in any corners of the plant, with nodes easily deployed to augment or create infrastructure ad-hoc. In fact, the more nodes you add, the more resilient the network becomes.
Lower TCO
With no cables to run, WiFi&Light® wireless networks can be deployed cost effectively in just days or weeks instead of months. The network’s ongoing maintenance and management costs are also minimized.
Mitigation of Risks
Remote monitoring and control of all valves, sensors, actuators and systems in the plant.
Decrease Downtime
WiFi&Light® fully redundant, self-optimizing infrastructure allows our clients to implement predictive maintenance in order to keep all assets operating at peak efficiency.
FROM SMART LIGHTING TO IoT
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SunComm Srl is an innovative start-up since 2017.
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It controls 100% of the shares of Reios Srl, an Italian
leader in design and marketing of Mesh Wi-Fi networks.
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Reios presents the WiFi&Light® platform in 2016 developed
with Smart & Start funding from Invitalia.
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SunComm mainly carried out coordination and control of Reios until
IIIQ 2020. It subsequently started its business.
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SunComm integrates, personalizes and brings to the market advanced solutions
based on W-Fi Mesh networks and IoT devices developed and produced by the subsidiary Reios.
GROUP BACKGROUND
ADVANTAGE
Increase Output
The widespread, numb shaped connectivity enabled with Reios WiFi&Light® helps our clients to better use plant resources and maximizing efficiency. The open standard approach enables unified communications, remote asset monitoring, and data sharing to aid collaborative processes.
Robustness
If one or more nodes, for any reasons, will no longer work properly, the mesh network is designed to replace such nodes with the others still working properly in order to recreate the appropriate path to transfer data.
Extensive coverage of Wi-Fi signal
The circumstance that each lighting fixture is hosting a mesh node means the distance between one node and the nearest one rarely exceeds 15 meters in manufacturing plants. Any device therefore is very close to the nearest node, thereby the signal strength and the average data speed are high in any corners of the plant.
Makes a fully scalable and smart
connectivity infrastructure
available to the customer for IoT,
digitalization & smart applications
Easily interconnects and manages each sensor and actuator at the minimum energy cost (in green economy spirit). Through integrated edge computing it quickly provides the user with the desired information, at the level of aggregation desired. The platform virtualises each interconnected device from the local level to the cloud, making them "future proof".
In the SunComm Group the products have been conceived and designed in the spirit of improving and simplifying access to digital resources for people.
The IoT of the SunComm Group, in all its forms both wearable and dedicated to things and goods, tends to improve the environmental conditions for people, enhances their capabilities through VR and AI to expand human possibilities.
The spirit is to change the man- made world to positively affect the social and natural world
Mesh Wi-Fi network integrating Edge Computing and multi radio gateways addressed to a distributed intelligence and connectivity
The proprietary SunComm platform, based on MQTT and SQL database, connects sensors to the Cloud or servers through open API in the most agile way
The use of the SunComm devices and platform - Wi-Fi mesh nodes, gateways, sensors, actuators - ensures fully scalable solutions and the legacy
Edge Computing has the capability to virtualise devices, so that allowing not only full usage of almost all sensors but also the creation of new virtual sensors by combining different sensors data
Mechatronic skills allow to tailor the IoT devices, especially in the wearable applications, in respect to safety and security needs and requirements
DISTINCTIVES IN INNOVATION
The IoT enabler
RULES AND FUNCTIONS
Infrastructure rules:
• Use open standards to allow as much IoT services as possible to exploit the infrastructure
• Use IP (Internet Protocol) based technologies
• Be scalable for any new device included in the system, both enabler and enabled
• Use Wi-Fi wireless mesh technology
• Use Edge-Computing and Fog Technology concepts and techniques
Connectivity function:
It is crucial for the internal operation of the WiFi&Light (lamp to lamp, lamp to edge micro-server, etc.) and for the external connectivity (IoT, other devices, LANs, Internet). The system implements both, while providing consistent internal connectivity and reliable external connectivity user experience.
Sensors integration function:
Sensor integration is a crucial part of the system and conceptually it can be divided in:
• sensors directly related to lighting functions (i.e. light sensors),
• sensors not directly related to lighting functions (i.e. proximity and passage sensors),
• other sensors dedicated to IoT services.
Actuation function:
This function is related, but not limited, to the Lighting function. The system is designed to be able to integrate and control other electrical devices, both wireless and wired, directly and can be expanded to host other wireless radio technologies as well thanks to its lamp-as-IoT-hub approach (i.e. 802.15.4 and BLE)
Lighting function:
Industrial Indoor/Outdoor LED Lighting is the natural field of application of the system.
It can be summarized as:
• Lighting system Power Efficiency,
• Automatic (Intelligent) Dimming,
• Predictive maintenance,
• Robustness (intrinsic and as fault detection).
Such distinction is just for clarification, since the system
is designed to enable a very wide range of IoT Services
IoT SERVICES & DEVICES
Combining hardware, firmware, software and edge computing architectures, SunComm offers proprietary & complete vertical IoT solutions to allow:
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People and assets tracking,
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People counting, contact tracing in industrial and social environments, gatherings alerts,
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Scheduling, detection and management of attendance in circumscribed areas,
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IoT Smart Lighting with sensors and actuators.
Main SunComm devices in vertical IoT solutions:
The Wi-Fi Mesh integrates:
• Mesh Networking 802.11s & Easy Mesh
• Embedded SF-EC programmable module (Lua, Pyton, etc.) for Edge-Computing / Fog-Computing in Industrial and Building Automation applications
• SF-IoT module for connectivity and IoT devices management ( through SF-EC)
The SunFlower MAD device is the Mesh node. It creates the full Mesh network thanks to its interaction with the other closest Mesh nodes (MeshAntennaDevice).
The Mesh node allows the connection of the network to the external environment and to the internet. The device transmits the rules managed by the ED server to the Mesh network.
The heart of Reios WiFi&Light® network is the SunFlower, a full Mesh node for Edge Computing, designed by Reios: a full fledge mini-computer, compact, addressable, programmable
DEVICES
The ED – Enabling Device – is an Edge micro-server and allows configuration, management and monitoring of the nodes of the Wifi&Light Full Mesh System. Through a LAN connection, can configure and control Wi-Fi LED luminaires and upload the Apps dedicated to IoT services.
Family of sensors that detect the light level of the environment, the presence and the passage of people and things within the area. The Wi-Fi-connection is obtained through WAD. It can also be extended to the use of all the foreseen environmental sensors.
The device sGate is a type of Mesh network node. It works as BLE-Observer and Wi-Fi-Gateway with MQTT messages. It is equipped with an omnidirectional WiFi and BLE Antenna at 2,4 gHz.
The WAD Wi-Fi Node is a standard client device that can be used both for the dimming of the LED luminaires and for the connection of IoT sensors and actuators via the Full Mesh Network to which it is connected.
The IAD Router Node is a Mesh node used, through wired connection to a switch, to connect WiFi&Light infrastructure to the Cloud. It also has the same function and characteristics of a MAD. It can be placed on board lighting or ‘stand-alone’.
The MAD – Mesh Antenna Device – is the Mesh node. It is integrated in the lighting fixtures or it can be ‘stand-alone’. It creates the Wi-Fi Full Mesh Network thanks to its interaction with the other closest MADs. The MADs allows the connection of the Clients, be they sensors, actuators or IP devices, to the network in all the wireless standards (BLE, ZigBee, Lora, Sub-Giga, etc.) The Wi-Fi Mesh is compliant with 802.11ac standard.
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
World Strong Co. Ltd
World Strong Co. Ltd is a Hong Kong trading company having a reprocessing factory in Dongguan for molds and moldingsmfg. World Strong deals with European market since more that 20 years.
World Strong and SunComm cooperation comes from the long experience of the staff of SunComm in molds and moldings mfg. The partner, operating in the trading and mfg sector, assures the compliance of the imported goods to requirements and certifications through supervision of the operations and quality control activities.
Prasino Energy
Prasino Energy is an Egyptian company dedicated to the energy management and saving. Prasino provides Smart Lighting solutions in industry and commercial areas as well as Smart solutions for cities. Prasino Energy, located in Cairo, is the distributor for SunComm Group in North Africa and Middle East for solutions especially in Smart Lighting. Several installations industrial and public infrastructure have cemented the partnership that is enlarging to Smart City dedicated solutions that SunComm can provide through its know-how in IoT and W-Fi Mesh systems.
Rajant Corporation
Rajant Corporation, located in Malvern, PA, U.S.A., is a technological and commercial partner of SunComm Group since 2016.
The sharing of strategic address in the technologic evolution of the Wi-Fi Mesh platform, continuous updates in the trends of AI, cybersecurity, immunity to failure, let SunComm aware of the evolution of IoT and in the USA market and worldwide. Rajant Corporation provides highly adaptable and scalable network, mission-critical connectivity to leverage the power of real-time data, delivering business intelligence from the field without fail.
ARCHITECTURE
CONTACT
SunComm Srl - Holding
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28100 Novara
E-mail: info@suncomm.it
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Reios Srl
Sede: Via O.F. Mossotti, 7
28100 Novara
E-mail: info@reios.it
Tel.: +39 0321 613914
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