What is the difference between industrial intelligent gateways and industrial routers

The relationship between gateways and routes is expressed as follows: gateways are the basis of network connections, and routes are the bridges of network connections.

The same: both of them are common hardware device owners, connecting hosts of different subnets in the network, and forwarding data packets;

The difference: the industrial gateway is connected to different networks, the hosts on both sides can communicate through the gateway, and the industrial gateway works in the application layer. For example: the switch is used as the next IP of the VLAN interface, and this IP is also a gateway, called an industrial gateway, mainly a single IP; an industrial router is carried out by sending data packets, and the router works as a device in the network layer to divide the wide area IP The role of the address. When doing switch VLAN, a three-tier routing is done. This routing configuration setting IP address is the gateway, that is, the industrial gateway, the most common gateway in the Ethernet, after degeneration, we also call it a router, mainly to distribute and set the IP address.

Gateways are divided into transmission gateways and application gateways. The main function is to act as a conversion task. It is essentially an IP address from a network to other networks.

The main functions of routers are: connecting different networks and transmitting information. According to the use, it can be divided into: access, enterprise level, backbone level, terabit, multi-WAN and 3G wireless, etc.

The gateway can be a router, a switch or a PC. Communication within the same network segment does not require the gateway to intervene. Only when the host communicates with a device other than the network segment, it is necessary to send all the data packets to the gateway device, and then forward or pass through the gateway device. There is routing handling etc. 

Routers are a network layer system. Routers are generally divided into two categories in the market today, one is single-protocol routers, and the other is multi-protocol routers. A router can convert data formats and become a necessary device for network interconnection between different protocols.

Industrial Intelligent Gateway JG100

● Support wireless and wired backup (support 4G network and wired access), connect to the IoT platform through MQTT+SSL/TLS, Https, WebScoket 

● Built-in various communication protocols (Modbus RTU/Modbus TCP, Siemens series, Omron series, Mitsubishi series, AB series, electric power 101, 104 and electric meter DLT645 protocol private protocol, etc.), adapt to a variety of field devices 

● Abundant communication interface types (RS232/RS485/RJ45/DI/D0, etc.) 

● High-performance hardware solutions that can be connected to third-party cloud platforms, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure-iot cloud, Gizwits Cloud, Alibaba Cloud (LinkWan platform, edge computing platform, intelligent gateway platform), Baidu Tiangong and other cloud platforms

 ● Convenient and easy-to-use PC Client software, which can remotely configure, monitor data, and establish maintenance channels for smart devices such as PLCs 

● Equipped with a Python development environment, it can implement customized functional applications according to its own business. At the same time, provide a secondary development kit (SDK), easily call various interfaces and resources of the system, and reflect the core value of customer solutions 

● Provides safe and reliable access, supports DES, 3DES and other encryption methods, can have VRRP hot backup function, and adopts distributed server deployment in the cloud, which can access a large number of gateways and terminal devices