Please note, the RLE FDS-Wi is discontinued and replaced by the Wi-MGR. For additional upgrade options, contact your Server Racks Online sales representative at 1-866-722-5776.
RLE's FDS-Wi is a wireless gateway designed for easy integration with facility monitoring and management systems. The convenient wireless design helps reduce installation costs associated with hard-wired sensors and systems.
The FDS-Wi comes equipped with a 418 megahertz radio receiver capable of receiving signals from select transmitters sensing temperature, humidity, motion, power transmitters, dry contact, analog (0-20mA), 0-5VDC, and 0-10VDC signals and a 900 megahertz receiver capable of receiving signals from sensors and point repeaters. The FDS-Wi integrates these signals to facilities monitoring systems in the form of SNMP, Modbus TCP/IP, Modbus RTU, and BACnet/IP.
The FDS-Wi can receive signals within 100 feet (30.48m) in open air space with the 418 MHz frequency and up to a quarter mile (402.34m) of open air space with the 900 MHz frequency. Repeaters are used to add additional distance between the FDS-Wi and the wireless sensors (transmitters).
Mesh Network
The FDS-Wi operates over a wireless distributed system (WDS), a type of wireless mesh network (WMN). The benefits of this system over other wireless networks is that it offers increased coverage and is typically more reliable. A distributed system helps increase performance and scalability and still allows the units to be geographically separate.
Network Repeater
The FDS-Wi can be integrated into larger systems, such as a network management system (NMS) via SNMP protocol, or a building management system (BMS) through BACnet and Modbus protocols and can serve as a network repeater to convey alarm status information to a centralized location.
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