Dubai, UAE — Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has developed an in-house, versatile gateway that can connect terrestrial sensors to satellites and ground networks.
The gateway was developed by DEWA’s Research and Development (R&D) Centre as part of the Space-D program.
The gateway has various physical, operational technology (OT) connectivity and IoT edge protocol libraries to support the latest IoT communication networks like LoRa, Wi-Fi & BLE. The device is designed to suit various industrial applications such as utilities, infrastructure, asset-tracking, agriculture, smart cities, fleet management and others, an official statement said.
The gateway has a long battery life to support various LoRa protocols and LoRaWAN to communicate directly with several satellites and terrestrial networks. This contributes to a significant reduction in device and operational costs. The device also complies with international IoT device security standards, including OT security, the statement reads.
The gateway was fully designed, fabricated and tested at DEWA’s R&D Centre. Its enclosure was manufactured at the R&D’s labs using 3D printing.
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, said that the gateway will help DEWA to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of its operations and support the digitization of its electricity and water networks.
Waleed Bin Salman, Executive Vice President of Business Development and Excellence at DEWA, highlighted that DEWA leverages the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to provide value from the data received from its IoT terminals via the satellite constellation network. DEWA uses the digital IoT platform hosted by its data center operated by MORO hub, the backbone of digital DEWA, to enable the terrestrial IoT communications of the developed gateways and to visualize the collected data.