Introduction; Purpose; Scope; Acronyms & Abbreviations - Bradford White BWCADAPTER User Manual

1 I
NTRODUCTION

1.1 Purpose

This document describes the Bradford White' BWCADAPTER commercial and residential IoT Gateway.
Targeted for controlling water heaters and boilers placed in Buildings and Industries. Core features are
its Hardware Design with Radio Connectivity such as Wi-Fi and BLE. Apart from the radio connectivity
options, the BWCADAPTER is also capable of standard industrial interfaces like micro SATA, RS-485, and
MODBUS.
This document mainly describes BWCADAPTER from a Hardware point of view, there are separate
software development manuals that can be also consulted.
For any further support contact Bradford White support services at

1.2 Scope

The scope of this document is to detail out aspects of BWCADAPTER design, specifications, Features, etc.
This document, henceforth, is to be used as a direct reference by end customers that use this product.
Bradford White's team will also use this document to review, approve, and accept the product design
for showcase purposes.
1.3 Acronyms & Abbreviations
Terms
SoC
CPU
BLE
IoT
RST
UART
LED
GPIO
TBD
Etc

1.4 References

Sr No Reference Document Title
1 Schematics design
2 Layout design
Rev 3.0.|27-Aug-20
System on Chip
Central Processing Unit
Bluetooth Low Energy
Internet of things
Reset
Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter
Light Emitting Diode
General Purpose Input/output
To Be Determined
Et Criteria
Table 2: Acronyms & Abbreviations
Table 3: References
Bradford White - Confidential
iot.app@bradfordwhite.com
Definition
Provided by
Bradford White
Bradford White
BWCADAPTER
Remarks
Primary reference
N/A
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