Mobile robots (including AGVs, drones, etc.) are widely used in factory automation, construction, mining, emergency rescue, military, service, agriculture, etc. iMAX-8000AI is a dedicated mobile high-capacity mobile wireless communication system for robots, which builds a reliable wireless communication through specialized design.
Aiming at the communication networking requirements of mobile robots, such as small size, light weight, low power consumption, fast movement, and high-speed roaming, iMAX-8000AI has well solved the common problems in mobile scenario applications, such as high bandwidth, high system capacity, high-speed movement, and smooth roaming between multiple base stations. In particular, technical features such as ultra-long communication distance, high speed, high bandwidth, high reliability, and high-performance image processing make it an outstanding product in the wireless industry.
The maximum air interface bandwidth of a single device of the iMAX-8000AI system is 600Mbps, and it can achieve roaming, hot standby, or bandwidth superposition, with higher performance and reliability. In the application of mobile networks, the iMAX-8000AI system is flexible and mobile, supporting technologies such as dedicated wireless metropolitan area network, centerless mesh network (MESH), wireless signal threshold roaming, and virtual hot standby routing. It can meet the networking solutions of dedicated wireless metropolitan area networks, as well as the requirements of single-frequency MESH and multi-frequency MESH mesh networks, making it the best communication solution in the application field of mobile robots.
Product Technical Features and Advantages:
- Robot-Specific Design: Various user-side CPEs all meet the requirements of small size and low power consumption, and are equipped with a complete set of antennas. They are suitable for use in mobile machinery such as robots, AGVs, and drones.
- High Bandwidth: The transmission rate of each sector of the base station can reach up to 600Mbps. The bandwidth of a single base station is 600Mbps×N (multi-base station superposition). Both the base station and the user side can be customized with single-mode or dual-mode options.
- Transmission Distance: Under line-of-sight conditions, the coverage radius of point-to-multipoint networking can reach up to 10 kilometers at the farthest (even if the user-side CPE device is equipped with a small suction cup antenna, it can also meet the communication needs within 1-2 kilometers).
- Operating Frequency: It supports the ultra-wide frequency band of the entire 5GHz frequency band (4.9-6.0GHz) and is adjustable via software. The typical operating frequencies are 5.8GHz and 5.2GHz.
- Advanced Wireless Technology: An advanced wireless interface based on MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output), antenna diversity, and OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technologies truly supports NLOS (Non-Line-of-Sight) transmission.
- Duplex Technology: TDD (Time Division Duplexing), 2×2 MIMO-OFDM (BPSK/QPSK/16QAM/64QAM).
- Single-Mode or Dual-Mode: Both the base station and the user side are divided into single-mode or dual-mode. The single-mode has 2 radio frequency ports, and the dual-mode has 4 radio frequency ports, which can be connected to multiple antennas to meet the communication needs of different scenarios.
- Bandwidth Allocation: Asymmetric throughput is adaptive and dynamically allocated between the uplink and downlink.
- Wireless Power: High transmission power, reaching 27dBm.
- Channel Bandwidth: Supports 10/20/40/80MHz channel bandwidths, which are dynamically adjustable.
- Wireless Intelligence: Automatic Distance Learning (ADI), Adaptive Rate (AAR), and Automatic Channel Selection (ACS).
- Networking Modes: Supports various metropolitan area network networking modes such as point-to-multipoint, point-to-point, MESH, hot standby, and ring network. Moreover, the user side can act as a relay in PTP mode, making the system design and deployment very convenient.
- Multiple User-Side Options: User-side CPEs with different rates of 150/300/600Mbps are available. Both integrated antennas and external antennas, as well as single-mode/dual-mode wireless user-side CPEs, can be customized.
- Non-Line-of-Sight: Adopts excellent OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) technology and truly supports non-line-of-sight transmission.
- Hot Standby and Roaming: The system supports multiple hot standby and roaming modes such as RSTP, MESH, and VRRP. Through VRRP technology, multiple functions such as redundant hot standby, smooth roaming, and link bandwidth superposition can be achieved.
- Antenna Selection: For the base station unit BS, a 120-degree dual-polarized sector antenna or a 360-degree omnidirectional antenna is recommended. For the user unit CPE, an integrated antenna (a conventional 18dBi dual-polarized antenna, and a 23dBi dual-polarized antenna needs to be customized by placing an order) is recommended. Or, according to needs, external antennas such as omnidirectional antennas, parabolic antennas, and flat-panel antennas can all be customized.
- Network Interface: The base station BS is standardly equipped with a Fiber DC-IDU optical port indoor unit, which can provide a 2-core SC optical fiber standard interface. The optical transmission distance when connecting to single-mode optical fiber is ≥20 kilometers, and it can provide 3 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet interfaces externally.
- IPv6 Support: Supports IPv6 address allocation, and both bridging mode and routing mode are available.
- Routing and Hot Standby: Supports multiple routing modes such as static routing, RIPv2, OSPFv2, and BGP, and can construct highly reliable ring networks and plan complex metropolitan area networks; supports the VRRP virtual hot standby routing protocol, which is suitable for constructing highly reliable networks such as ring networks and hot standby networks and for rapid business roaming; supports the OSPFv3 routing technology and can plan routes based on IPv6.
- Other Network Technologies: Supports network technologies such as DHCP, DNS, and NAT; supports multiple tunnel communication protocols such as PPTP, L2TP, Open VPN, SSTP, IPSec, EoIP, and GRE.
- Multi-Service Hybrid Networking: Supports various QoS (Quality of Service) and bandwidth allocation mechanisms, and has good stability in audio and video transmission.
- Security: The air interface adopts the proprietary iMAX wireless network communication technology. The wireless link supports wireless packetization, MAC address filtering, and AES 128-bit dynamic advanced encryption for data transmission. The network technology supports multiple security technologies such as VLAN (Virtual Local Area Network), VPN (Virtual Private Network), DoS attack prevention, and Firewall software firewall, and supports multiple tunnel communication protocols.
- Reliability: Supports MESH architecture networking; supports RSTP link backup; supports ring network routing mode networking; supports VRRP virtual hot standby routing high-reliability technology; supports the data mirroring technology to send data simultaneously on multiple channels, which can ensure the reliable transmission of sensitive information.
- Low Latency & Packet Loss Rate: Millisecond-level delay. By adopting the data mirroring technology, the packet loss rate can be equal to 0%.
- Clock Synchronization: Supports the NTP protocol and can achieve the clock synchronization function.
- Power Supply: DC48V/AC220V options are available. It has ultra-low power consumption. The average power consumption of BS (single-mode) is ≤18W, and the average power consumption of CPE is ≤12W.
- Excellent Environmental Adaptability: Complies with the industrial design outdoor IP68 standard and can work stably and reliably in harsh environments (wind, frost, rain, and snow), extreme temperatures, or high-corrosion conditions along the coast. The temperature and humidity indicators of ODU are: -50℃ to +85℃, humidity 100%, with condensation; Fiber DC-IDU complies with the industrial wide-temperature indicator of -40℃ to +85℃, and rail installation is simpler.
- Convenience of Installation and Maintenance: The equipment is small in size and light in weight. It is connected by using a low-cost baseband cable (Category 5e outdoor shielded twisted pair), and the installation is convenient and simple with a short construction period; it has built-in practical tools such as a spectrum scanner viewer and ping, and has an LED signal strength indicator, which is convenient for aligning the antenna.
- Network Management Features: Provides free WEB management or network management software, which is easy to operate and maintain; supports remote management and wireless-side upgrades; supports centralized management and can be integrated into a network management system that supports third-party SNMP for unified management.
Product Model:
Base Station AI-BS: Mobile Terminal AI-CS:
iMAX-8000AI-BS100/300/600 iMAX-8000AI-CS100/300/600
iMAX-8000AI-BS100/300/600M2 iMAX-8000AI-CS150/300/600M2
iMAX-8000AI-BS100/300/600ID
Explanation: In the model designation, BS indicates the base station, CS indicates the robot mobile terminal. The numbers represent the system air interface bandwidth. ID indicates the indoor base station unit; the wireless module is represented by M. For single-mode, there is no additional identifier, and for dual-mode, it is marked as M2, and so on.
Typical Applications：
The iMAX-8000AI system is a dedicated IP wireless network system for various industrial mobile robots provided to robot manufacturing enterprises and scientific research institutions. It meets the communication networking requirements during the rapid movement of emergency rescue robots, military robots, mining robots, power robots, utility tunnel robots, etc. (especially for ultra-long distances, high-speed smooth roaming, ad hoc networking, etc.), and provides a high-end networking solution for the outdoor high-speed mobile communication mode of robots.
In the application scenarios of vehicle-mounted private networks, the iMAX-8000AI system also has broad application prospects, including but not limited to the following scenarios:
In summary, the system’s high mobility, reliability, security, and performance make it the ideal dedicated network solution for stable real-time robotics and in-vehicle applications.
