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CradlePoint Enables
Administrators to Remotely
Access Industrial Scales
CBA250 Cellular Broadband Adapter Is a Fool Proof Way
to Administer Industrial Scales Over Long Distances
SITUATION
C.T.P.Z. Application Innovations provides custom software solutions for large industrial
scales. These industrial scales are used to weigh railroad cars, trucks, grain, coal,
materials moving on conveyors, etc. The founder of C.T.P.Z. Application Innovations,
Stephan Horlak, often partners with distributors like Dean Smith of D&G Scale to
cooperatively develop custom solutions that allow industrial scale owners to extract
custom data and reports, based on that owner's individual needs and requirements.
Typically, these custom solutions are deployed on different models of Mettler-Toledo
industrial scales. Mettler-Toledo scales have Ethernet ports that allow access to
the scale's software system. Using a laptop, Stephan, can upload his custom
applications (which use an API provided by Mettler-Toledo), deliver patches/fixes and
add functionality as a customer's needs evolve.
CHALLENGE
Industrial scales are deployed all over the country, far from the company's main Ohio
location. Traveling to a site each time it needs an update or upgrade is expensive and
The CradlePoint CBA250 Cellular Broadband Adapter
connects to the scale's management console to enable
remote diagnostics and maintenance. The CBA250
provides IP Pass-Through capabilities for a LAN device
requiring wireless broadband access, converting Ethernet
to cellular and cellular to Ethernet. The CBA250 handles
the connection without configuration and supports
multiple and concurrent application streams. The size of a
handheld PDA, it's truly a "drop-in" solution.
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