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  • Page 1 ® Industrial 5G/4G IoT Gateway TG463 Series User Guide Note: interfaces of hardware for different model will be different. 1 / 55...

  • Page 2: Copyright

    Product specifications and information in this document are subject to change without any notice, and BIVOCOM reserves the right to improve and change this user guide at any time. Users should take full responsibility for their application of products, and Xiamen Bivocom Technologies Co., Ltd.

  • Page 3: About This Guide

    TG463-LF Industrial 4G LTE IoT Gateway Note: please contact Bivocom team to choose the version of hardware you need for your IoT application, as different interfaces on hardware will have different part number, such as, dual sim, with/without GPS, etc.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Copyright ..........................2 Trademark ..........................2 Disclaimer ..........................2 About This Guide ........................3 Table of Contents........................4 1. Introduction ..........................6 1.1 Overview ........................... 6 1.2 Applications ........................6 1.3 Dimensions: ........................7 1.4 Physical Characteristics ....................7 2.
  • Page 5 3.4.3 IPSec ........................36 3.4.3 OpenVPN ......................38 3.5 Advanced ........................39 3.5.1 Static Routing ...................... 39 3.5.2 Net Flow ....................... 39 3.5.3 GPS Location(Option) ..................40 3.5.4 DHCP and DNS ....................41 3.6 Data Collect ........................41 3.6.1 Basic Setting ....................... 41 3.6.2 Interface Setting ....................

  • Page 6: Introduction

    5G/4G LTE cellular network. The TG463 series IoT gateway can be used for a wide variety of applications, such as smart pole, smart cities, smart office, smart buildings, smart traffic light, digital signage advertising, vending machines, ATM, etc.

  • Page 7: Dimensions

    2. Getting Started 2.1 Package Checklist The following components are included in your standard TG463 package. Check the list before installation. If you find anything missing, Please feel free to contact Bivocom. 1. TG463 Gateway 1PCS 2. Power Adapter 1PCS (DC 12V/1.5A, EU/US/UK/AU plug optional)

  • Page 8: Installation

    3. Cellular Antenna 5G version: 4PCS 4G version: 2PCS 4. WIFI Antenna 2PCS 5. RS232 Cable 1PCS (DB9 Female, 1 meter) 6. Ethernet Cable(1 meter): 1PCS 7. 10-Pin Terminal Block: 1PCS 8. 6-Pin Terminal Block: 2PCS 9. 2-Pin Terminal Block: 1PCS 10.

  • Page 9: Interfaces Connection

    Note: standard package only supports single SIM, dual SIM is an optional feature. 2.2.2 Interfaces connection Hardware Interfaces Instruction (TG463-NR, 5G Version as an example) Before we start to install and configure the TG463, let’s have a quick view of the interfaces of it.
  • Page 10 3) Definition for I/O 3 Item Description Digital input(0-30V Input) Status “0”: 0-3V, status “1”: 5-30V ADC1 Analog input 1 3 x 16-bit ADC, supports 4-20mA current signal input, or 0-5V voltage signal input(configurable) ADC2 Analog input 2 3 x 16-bit ADC, supports 4-20mA current signal input, or 0-5V voltage signal input(configurable) ADC3 Analog input 3...

  • Page 11: Power Supply

    4~20mA Current input, or 0-5V Voltage input. 2.2.3 Power Supply We suggest you use Bivocom standard power adapter (1.5A/12VDC) comes with the standard package. If you have to use your own DC power supply, make sure the power range is 5-35VDC and it is stable enough(Ripple shall be less than 300mV, and Instantaneous voltage shall not larger than 35V), meanwhile, power shall over 4W.

  • Page 12: Configuration And Management

    Use an Ethernet cable to connect the LAN port of TG463 to your laptop, or use your laptop or mobile phone to connect to WIFI hotspot ‘Bivocom’ of TG463, login with password: admin123, normally your laptop will get an IP address from TG463 DHCP as 192.168.1.xx, otherwise please manually configure your laptop IP to 192.168.1.100.

  • Page 13: View

    Open browser, enter 192.168.1.1 to enter into to login page, enter username: admin, and password: admin, to go to configuration page. After enter into the web config page, you’ll see a list of menu on left side, as below. 3.1 View To check the following system information.

  • Page 14: Network

    3.1.2 Network Display WAN, LAN, WiFi, DHCP network information. 14 / 55...

  • Page 15: Routing Tables

    3.1.3 Routing Tables Display routing tables. 15 / 55...

  • Page 16: System Log

    Display system log. 3.1.5 VPN Status Display VPN status. Bivocom TG463 supports IPsec, PPTP, L2TP, OpenVPN, GRE protocols, after it’s successfully connected to your VPN server, it’ll display some info as below, such as, Type, Connect Status, Uptime, Subnet Mask, etc.

  • Page 17: Setup

    3.2 Setup Main menu of this page includes, WAN, LAN, Wireless, Online Detection, Diagnostics. 3.2.1 WAN 1) Connection Type WAN supports DHCP/Static IP/PPPoE/3G/4G/5G connection type. Choose the mode you need to configure the related parameters, then you can connect to the internet.
  • Page 18 2) Network Type Type of network, the default value is AUTO, you can keep it or choose your own preference, including 5G only, LTE only, 3G only, etc. 3) APN For standard SIM card, just keep it as blank, while If you’re using SIM card with APN required, then you have to input the APN from your Telco, and different Telco might have different APN, please ask your Telco if you have no idea of what your APN is.

  • Page 19: Lan

    blank. 7) Authentication Type If there have username and password, you need to choose authentication type. Normally, just keep it as default. ⚫ PAP, Plaintext Authentication ⚫ CHAP, Handshake authentication You need to choose the authentication type according to Telco’s network, or you may fail to dial up.
  • Page 20 2) IPv4 Netmask The netmask of LAN port IP address. 3) DHCP Server ⚫ Disable DHCP Click to disable DHCP server. ⚫ Start Assign the IP address of DHCP server. For example, 100 means IP address starts from 192.168.1.100. ⚫ Limit Assignable number of IP address, to ensure numbers of IP address of start and limit not exceed 250.

  • Page 21: Wireless

    Menu of wireless are mainly for configuring parameters of WIFI hotspot, such as, SSID, work mode, password, etc. Note: standard package of TG463 only supports 2.4G WIFI, if you need dual band WIFI, please ask Bivocom representative for more info when place the order. WIFI 2.4G Click ‘Enable’, to enable the WIFI function.
  • Page 22 4) Encryption You can choose different encryption type as below. 5) Key Password of WIFI hotspot, user needs to input it to access the internet shared by WIFI. The minimum length of password is 8 bytes. 6) Hide SSID When Hide SSID enabled, SSID is invisible, and user need to enter the SSID to access the WIFI hotspot.
  • Page 23 1) Mode Support 802.11a, 802.11an, 802.11ac and 802.11anc, and default value is 802.11anc. 2) Channel Support 149, 153, 157, 161, 165 channels, default value is auto, channel can be changed automatically. 3) Network Name（SSID） WIFI hotspot name. 4) Encryption You can choose different encryption type as below. 5) Key Password of WIFI hotspot, user needs to input it to access the internet shared by WIFI.

  • Page 24: Online Detection

    3.2.4 Online Detection Online detection will auto check the internet connection status of the router, if there has issue of connection, router will auto reconnect. If it fails to reconnect after times of trial, router will reboot, to ensure getting online. The meaning of the parameters are as follows.

  • Page 25: Diagnostics

    2) Primary Detection Server It can be an IP address or a Domain Name configured by youself. 3) Second Detection Server If primary detection server fails, then router will auto switch to second detection server. 4) Retry Times You can set up retry time in case detection fails. 5) Retry Interval The interval time between 2 detections.
  • Page 26 2) Traceroute Click traceroute, then you can see similar reponse as below. 3) Nslookup Click nslookup, then you can see similar reponse as below. 26 / 55...

  • Page 27: Secure

    3.3 Secure Menu of Secure are for configuring the firewall, to ensure the security of accessing to internet, and implement the port forwarding, access control, data packet filtering, and other functions. 3.3.1 DMZ Host DMZ can forward the port of WAN to a host of LAN; all packet from WAN will be forwarded to specified host of LAN.

  • Page 28: Port Forwarding

    3.2.2 Port Forwarding Comparing with DMZ, Port Forwarding is for more precise control, user can forward the data packet of a port to a host of LAN, to forward different port to different host. 1) Name You can name the rule you created. 2) Protocol You can choose TCP, UDP, or TCP/UDP.
  • Page 29 1) Name You can name the rule yourself. 2) Protocol Choose the protocol of you want to forward can be TCP, UDP, or TCP/UDP. 3) External Port Choose the port you want to open. In addition, traffic rule can be used for creating some access control rules, it can be from LAN to WAN, or WAN to LAN.
  • Page 30 1) Restrict to Address Family You can choose IPv4, IPv6, or Pv4/IPv6. 2) Protocol To choose the protocol you want for access control, it can TCP, UDP, ICMP or TCP/UDP. 3) Source MAC Address To choose the source MAC address of data packet. 4) Source Address To choose the source IP address of data packet.

  • Page 31: Custom

    ⚫ Drop Drop data packet ⚫ Reject Drop data packet, and return an unachievable data packet. ⚫ Don’t Track No action. 3.3.4 Custom Custom rules allow you to execute arbritary iptables commands which are not otherwise covered by the firewall framework. The commands are executed after each firewall restart, right after the default ruleset has been loaded.
  • Page 32 1) PPTP Client 1. PPTP Client You can enable or disable PPTP client. 2. Server Address To enter the IP address or Domain Name of PPTP server. 3. User Name and Password To enter the user name and password provided by server. 4.
  • Page 33 2) PPTP Server 1. PPTP Server You can enable or disable PPTP server. 2. Server Local IP To enter the server local IP address. 3. IP Address Range Type the range of assigned IP address. 4. Enable MPPE Encryption. You can enable MPPE encryption here. 5.

  • Page 34: L2Tp

    Please ask for Bivocom support if you need an example of how to set up the PPTP client and server work mode. 3.4.2 L2TP You can also configure either L2TP client or L2TP server, but not both of them at the same time, as that may also cause uncertain issues.
  • Page 35 3. User Name and Password To enter the user name and password provided by server. 4. Remote Subnet To enter the remote subnet, for example, if LAN of L2TP server is 192.168.2.1, then you can enter remote subnet 192.168.2.0. 5. Remote Subnet Mark To enter the remote subnet mask, normally it is 255.255.255.0.

  • Page 36: Ipsec

    For example, if you want to create a username: test, password: test, it is as below, Test * test * Please ask for Bivocom support if you need an example of how to set up the L2TP client and server work mode.
  • Page 37 Peer identifier of channel, can be an IP address or domain name. 10) ESP Encryption Algorithm The encryption method of ESP. For more info about how to set up IPsec, please contact Bivocom support to get quick guide. 37 / 55...

  • Page 38: Openvpn

    3.4.3 OpenVPN 1) OpenVPN You can enable or disable OpenVPN. 2) Topology Choose the topology, it can be point to point or subnet Note: For point to point, a tunnel will be established between 2 devices. While for subnet, multi devices will be connected to one server. 3) Role When topology is subnet, you need to choose you want it be a server or client.

  • Page 39: Advanced

    When topology is point to point, and authentication type is certification, you need to choose if it is server or client. For more info, please contact Bivocom support to get quick guide. 3.5 Advanced You can set up some advanced functions here.

  • Page 40: Gps Location(Option)

    will be saved, and when you power on the router, the traffic will be counted based on your last time traffic. 3.5.3 GPS Location(Option) GPS location will report GPRMV information regularly, saying longitude and latitude information. And this function is used for accurate location of outdoor open area. Server Address: The IP address of server that you want the router to report the location, which is based on TCP connection.

  • Page 41: Dhcp And Dns

    3.5.4 DHCP and DNS General DHCP and DNS settings base on Dnsmasq tool on TG463. Please refer to Dnsmasq for more information. 3.6 Data Collect Data Collect settings is for TG463 acquiring data from slave devices in serial ports, Ethernet ports, IO ports, with Modbus protocol and other customized protocols. Also support customize data display on LCD (only for TG462S).

  • Page 42: Modbus Rules Setting

    Besides, TG463 can connect up to 5 TCP server, which means you can receive the data from remote sites in different server, it’s also backup solution for data storage at server. 3.6.3 Modbus Rules Setting Modbus Rules Setting is for TG463 as a Modbus master to acquire data from slave devices base on Modbus protocol.

  • Page 43: Io Setting

    3.6.4 IO Setting IO Setting menu is for setting ADC ports, DI ports, and Relay ports. 43 / 55...
  • Page 44 1) ADC ports setting 2) DI ports setting 44 / 55...
  • Page 45 3) Relay Setting 45 / 55...

  • Page 46: Server Setting

    3.6.5 Server Setting Server setting menu allows user set the data center address with multiple protocols, the standard TG463 support TCP, UDP, HTTP, MQTT, and Modbus TCP. For the data format, TG463 support different Encapsulation type, include “Transparent”, “Json”, and “HJ212” (special for some Environment SCADA in China).

  • Page 47: Administrate

    3.7 Administrate In this menu, you can set up time zone, language(English and Chinese only now), time setting, firmware upgrade, etc. 3.7.1 System 47 / 55...

  • Page 48: Password

    1) Host Name The host name of router, default name is router. 2) Time Zone Set up the time zone of system, default time zone is GMT8. 3) Language Change the language of configuration interface, default language is English. 4) \Enable Telnet Access To enable the telnet server, the default function is enable.

  • Page 49: Time Setting

    If the new password and confirmation password you type is different, then it fails to revise the password. After password revised, router will return to login page, then you can enter your username and password. 3.7.3 Time Setting System time type includes RTC (Real Time Clock) and NTP (Network Time Protocol). RTC will save time even router is powered off, while for NTP, router will connect to NTP server which requires internet connection, time won’t be saved once powered off.

  • Page 50: Log Settings

    ⚫ NTP Time Server You can select the NTP time server through drop-down menu, or you can customize it yourself. Port NTP time server port, default port is 123. Update Interval How long to sync the time with NTP server, default time is 600 seconds. 3.7.4 Log Settings Log settings is for configuring the output parameters of system log.

  • Page 51: Backup And Restore

    3) Log Server Set up the IP address of log server. 4) Log Server Port Set up the port of log server, default value is 514 5) Output Level There are several levels supported, including ‘Debug’, ’Info’, ‘Notice’, ‘Warning’, ‘Error’, and level increased in sequence, the higher level, the less output log.

  • Page 52: Router Upgrade

    recover the previous configuration. Click ‘upload archive’, select and upload the backup configuration file, and a pop-up confirmation box with ‘Really Restore’ will display, then click ‘OK’, to recover the configuration. 3.7.6 Router Upgrade Before you upgrade the firmware for router, make sure the firmware you’re planning to upload is correct.

  • Page 53: Remote Configured

    3.7.7 Remote Configured Remote Configured feature allows TG463 work with Bivocom Device Management Platform(Option service) for remote management, like firmware upgrade, configuration change, etc. You can configure the IP address and port of remote DMP server, device number and phone number of router, etc., as below.
  • Page 54 5) Device Number Device ID of router. 6) Device Phone Number The phone number of SIM card insert in router. 7) Device Type Type of the device, default is router. You can also remote upgrade the firmware for router, as below. 8) Remote Upgrade Click ‘Enable’...

  • Page 55: Manual Reboot

    ‘OK’ to reboot the router. 3.7.9 Schedule Reboot Schedule Reboot allows user configure the period or dedicate time for device reboot. Note: if you have any other questions about Bivocom products, please contact Bivocom support@bivocom.com. 3.8 Logout Click the Logout menu to logout the web UI of TG463.

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