LoRaWAN™ GWFcoder® MP Radio Module
RCM®-H200 915MHz
Product categories
Water,
Gas
Water
Drinking Water
Gas
System technology
Wired
Wireless
wM-Bus,
LoRaWAN
Smart City
Smart Building
Your benefits
- Backwards compatible:
No meter change required when migrating water and gas meters with GWFcoder® MP interface into a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) - Performance driven design:
Range up to 40 km (line of sight) - Plug & Play:
Easy and fast on-site installation and activation in LoRaWAN (no programming required) - LoRa Alliance Certified:
Interoperable with different LoRaWAN network providers - Integrated monitoring of connectivity and reconnecting mechanisms:
Robust operation with automatic repair options, e.g. with gateway failures - Custom-tailored RF Mode:
Up to 15 years battery lifetime
Applications
- Simple readout of water and gas meters with GWFcoder® MP registers without necessity to access buildings
- Migration of installed meters with GWFcoder® MP registers to a smart metering system via LoRaWAN
- Energy monitoring, energy reporting and consumption accounting with any cloud solution
- Integration of water and gas meters with GWFcoder® MP registers in smart city projects
Options
- LoRaWAN Transmission interval: 15 minutes (depends on the to be used LoRaWAN data rate), 60 minutes or daily
- Warnings (continuous flow / leak, backflow, pipe burst, no usage over a period) enabled or disabled
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Properties
- Battery powered, LoRaWAN radio module
- Radio transmission in license free 915 MHz frequency band
- Split execution: Water proof design for pit installations (protection class IP68)
- Compact execution: IP67
- Transmission of latest register value and further information
- For all meter types with GWFcoder® MP register with ECO interface (gas / water, domestic and industrial meters)
- Split-connection (cable) to the meter – remote installation
- Data transmission in accordance with LoRaWAN 1.0.4 specification
- Data security via AES-128-bit end-to-end encryption over 2 independent security layers
- ADR (adaptive data rate) support gives higher transmission intervals with consistent battery life
- Real-time clock synchronization with the LoRaWAN-Network –DeviceTimeReq
- Contactless NFC configuration and commissioning interface
- Approvals: FCC, IC and ACMA
Product information
Dimension Diagram
Radio-Start behaviour
- Split execution: 3 minutes after the connection of the GWFcoder® MP meter
- Compact execution: 3 minutes after the flow of 5 liters
Technical data
| Specifications | Radio module RCM®-H200 |
|---|---|
| Meter interface | Meter with GWFcoder® MP register with ECO interface |
| Regional Parameters (Frequency band) | US902-928 MHz ISM Band (902 – 928 MHz) AU915-928 MHz Band (915 – 928 MHz) |
| Transfer protocol (payload) | GWF specific |
| Radiated power | max. 20 dBm (100 mW) |
| LoRaWAN class | A |
| ADR | Yes |
| Activation type | OTAA |
| Approval | FCC, IC and ACMA |
| Protection class | Split execution: IP68, Compact execution: IP67 |
| Cable length | Split execution: 1 m Compact execution: no cable |
| Cable extension (only split) | max. 20 m |
| Power supply | |
|---|---|
| Battery | 1 x Lithium 3,0 V (not replaceable) |
| Typical battery lifetime | Up to 15 years (depending on environment and configuration conditions) |
| Ambient conditions | |
|---|---|
| Operational temperature | -15 to +55 °C |
| Storage temperature | -15 to +65 °C |
| Information data package | Data (example) MTKcoder® MP |
|---|---|
| DevEUI RCM®-H200 | 70B3D538700000AB |
| Meter manufacturer1) | GWF |
| Medium1) | Water |
| Meter number1) | 18215678 |
| Absolute meter reading1) (up to 15 min. values) | 359,768 m3 |
| Remaining battery life | Semester |
| Warnings | Battery, LoRaWANTM link error, continuous flow / leak, backflow, pipe burst, no usage |
| Status1) | Manipulation |
1) This data is read directly from the GWFcoder® MP register