User's Manual

BWCADAPTER
Rev 3.0.|27-Aug-20 Bradford White - Confidential Page 6 of 23
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 [e-mail]
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
Definition
SoC
System
on
Chip
CPU
Central
Processing
Unit
BLE
Bluetooth
Low
Energy
IoT
Internet
of
things
RST
Reset
UART
Universal
asynchronous
receiver-transmitter
LED
Light
Emitting
Diode
GPIO
General
Purpose
Input/output
TBD
To
Be
Determined
Etc Et Criteria
Table 2: Acronyms & Abbreviations
1.4 References
Sr
No
Reference
Document
Title
Provided
by
Remarks
1
Schematics
design
Bradford
White
Primary
reference
2 Layout design Bradford White N/A
Table 3: References