Design and implementation of smart integrated access gateway for Internet of Things

Abstract

With the development of the Internet of Things, the world is entering an era of interconnection. Some typical application scenarios, such as environmental monitoring, energy management, space equipment operation and maintenance, require gateways to integrate multiple heterogeneous networks, such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRa and other wireless LAN and wired LAN. However, the interfaces of existing gateways are different and incompatible with each other, which makes difficult to achieve the requirements of heterogeneous interconnection. Therefore, this paper presents a smart integrated access gateway with modular architecture, which consists of a motherboard and multi-type user cards with pluggable functions. Different user cards can provide different communication interfaces and adapt corresponding communication protocols, by which different network customizations can be achieved in combination. Compared with other research work, the gateway is more configurable customizable and flexible.