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Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 User Manual...
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Product specifications and information in this document are subject to change without any notice, and ELASTEL 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 Elastel Technologies Co., Ltd.
It comes with 4 x RS485/232 serial ports and dual 10/100 Mbps Ethernet ports, as well as a Mini PCIe socket to support 4G LTE/3G/2G/NB-IoT/Cat M1 cellular modules. These versatile capabilities let users efficiently adapt the EG324 to a variety of complex communications solutions.
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2G GSM@ B3/B8; AU model: 4G LTE FDD@ B1/B2/B3/B4/B5/B7/B8/B28; 4G LTE TDD@ B40; 3G WCDMA@ B1/B2/B5/B8; 2G GSM@ B2/B3/B5/B8; Other options please contact Elastel representative. USB Host USB 2.0 1 x USB 2.0, type-A connector Power output 5V@500mA Output Over Load protection Protection ESD ±8kV IEC61000-4-2 Air Discharge...
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-40 to 85°C (-40 to 185°F) Storage Temperature (package included) -40 to 85°C (-40 to 185°F) Package Contents Device 1 x EG324 IoT Gateway with Terminal Block preinstalled Mag-mount Cellular Antenna (SMA Antenna Male, 1 meter, 12dBi) Installation Kit 1 x DIN-rail kit Power Adapter DC 12V/1.5A (optional)
Note, you are also allowed to access to EG324 CLI (Command Line Interface for batch scripting) immediately via SSH or Telnet once connected your PC to EG324 LAN, rely a putty or Xshell tool to ssh 192.168.1.1 with “admin” for both username and password. Check the Section 4 for more details.
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 3.1 Dashboard The Dashboard page shows the overview of current network status, it contains the current actived network type (Wired or LTE), network interface, IP address, MAC address and so on. And the current Connected Devices list, indicating host name, IP address, MAC address.
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 3.3 LAN The LAN menu provide settings for EG324 LAN, including DHCP server settings like assigned IP address range, with EG324 gateway IP address which default as 192.168.1.1. Advanced label provide Upstream DNS server ELASTEL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
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Static Leases provide an option for user allocate LAN IP address with particular hardware MAC address. This is useful for making your slave device use solid LAN IP address connected with EG324 Gateway. Client List provide the overview of actived clients connected on EG324 gateway currently. ELASTEL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. WWW.ELASTEL.COM...
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 3.4 WiFi EG324 support WiFi optional by external USB WiFi dongle. The OS preinstalled the drivers of USB WiFi dongle which powered by RTL8188EU, RTL8192EU, MT7601U, RTL8811CU and RTL8812BU chipset. The webUI powered by Hostapd provides the setting items related WiFi like SSID, Wireless Mode (2.4G/5G depends on your WiFi dongle mode), and Security settings for type, encryption,...
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Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 1) Data Collect: Enable or Disable data collect feature. 2) Collect Period: Set the period of data acquire from slave devices. 3) Report Period: Set the Period of data report to server/ data center. 4) Enable Cache: Enable or Disable history data cache feature.
Serial ports (COM1 ~ COM4 on EG324 accordingly), Modbus TCP base on Ethernet Ports. 3.5.3 Modbus Rule Setting Modbus Rules Setting is for EG324 as a Modbus master to acquire data from slave devices based on Modbus protocol. You can configure multiple Modbus rules on it base on different Device ID.
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 Click ADD or EDIT button to add or edit a modbus rule, it provide visible Modbus related setting items. 3.5.4 S7 Rules Setting This menu provide the Siemens S7 protocol settings for your Siemens PLC data acquisiton.
3.5.5 Server Setting Server setting menu allows user set the data center address up to 5 servers with individual protocols. The EG324 support TCP, TCP Server, UDP, HTTP, MQTT, and Modbus TCP protocols for communication. For the data format, it supports different encapsulation type, include “Transparent”, “Json”, and “HJ212”...
(the minimum interval is 5 minutes). Note, 1. You will need configure the hostname domain on noip.com platform cloud. 2. DDNS request you be assigned a public IP address on EG324 from Wired network or cellular LTE network. ELASTEL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 3.7 Authentication Authentication menu provide you set your passowrd of username. The default password of admin username is “admin”. 3.8 System The system menu provide the system running status overview indicating current Memory Used, CPU Locad, CPU Temperature. Also provide menu “Reboot” and “Shutdowm” operation.
CLI. The console port are at the right of power input port on top panel . Connect the EG324 USB- C console port with your PC, open a serial communication tool (like putty). Set the baudrate as 115200, databit 8N1.
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 4.3 Userful Commands Examples 4.3.1 Check OS Version “$ uname -a” or “$ lsb_release -a” to check the Linux OS details. 4.3.2 Check Flash Usage “$ df –h” to Check Flash usage 4.3.3 Check CPU information “$ cat /proc/cpuinfo”...
Industrial IoT Gateway EG324 4.3.4 Check Installed program list “$ dpkg -l |grep docker” to fliter if “Docker” was installed ELASTEL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. WWW.ELASTEL.COM...
USB power control /dev/usbpwr Buzzer /dev/buzzer Hardware Watchdog /dev/watchdog WAN port eth0 LAN port eth1 Technical Support Send Email to Elastel Support center (support@elastel.com) for firmware upgrade, product documents, FAQ, technical support and more. -END- ELASTEL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. WWW.ELASTEL.COM...
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