Installation Manual

PE Smart Mini Gateway
Document No. [DOC-INS-0115-05] Date of last revision [31.05.2021]
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4. Product Description
The PE Smart Mini Gateway is a key hardware element of Paradox Engineering’s PE Smart Urban Network
platform for urban environments.
The PE Smart Mini Gateway natively manages Wireless and Wireless Highspeed integrated network
technologies. It allows city managers to set up smart urban infrastructures supporting both wireless
sensor-based applications (such as smart street lighting, smart parking, smart metering, smart
environmental sensing, etc.) as well as data hungry applications such as traffic video surveillance,
emergency-response systems, and various other use cases.
The PE Smart Mini Gateway operates as border router, connecting each physical object of PE Smart Urban
Network to the Internet or Local Area Network with an addressing system to uniquely identify single
devices and to adapt different communication layers. The PE Smart Mini Gateway is depicted in Figure 1,
below.
Figure 1: The PE Smart Mini Gateway
The PE Smart Mini Gateway also acts as coordinator and data concentrator of the PE Smart Urban
Network. It serves as central collecting point for data generated by PE Smart Nodes, leveraging 6LoWPAN
protocol (with IPv6 addressing) for radio communications. It coordinates all PE Smart Nodes within the
narrowband network, synchronizing them and routing data coming from field devices to PE Smart CMS
(Central Management System). Furthermore, it forwards any commands generated by the PE Smart CMS to
any and all PE Smart Nodes.
An example of network scheme is pictured in Figure 2.