Designed for both indoor and outdoor deployments, RAKwireless’ WisGate Soho Pro RAK7267 is an 8-channel LoRaWAN gateway with LTE Cat 1 and WiFi 4 connectivity and support for 9V-36V DC input compatible with the company for solar battery kits.
The LoRaWAN gateway is based on the MediaTek MT7628 MIPS processor with 256MB RAM and 32MB flash, runs a fork of OpenWrt with a dashboard for configuration, and integrates with WisDM cloud-based IoT management platform.
WisGate Soho Pro RAK7267 specifications:
- SoC – MediaTek MT7628 MIPS processor at 580MHz
- System Memory – 256MB RAM
- Storage – 32MB NOR flash, microSD card socket
- LoRaWAN connectivity to sensors
- Semtech SX1303 LoRa Concentrator for up to 8 channels
- Frequencies
- 868 MHz – EU868/ IN865/ RU864
- 9150 MHz – US915/ AU915/ KR920/ AS923
- Rx Sensitivity – At least -139 dBm
- Tx Power – Up to 27 dBm
- LoRaWAN v1.0.3
- LoRa Frame filtering (node whitelisting)
- Buffering of LoRa frames in Packet Forwarder mode in case of NS outage (no data loss)
- Listen Before Talk (optional)
- Fine timestamping (optional)
- Backhaul connectivity
- 4G LTE via Quectel EG915U with variants for North America, EMEA/Brazil/Australia/New Zealand, and Latin America
- 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi 4 (802.11b/g/n) 2×2 MIMO
- MQTT v3.1 bridging with TLS encryption
- GNSS – GPS support
- Antennas – Internal antennas for LoRa, LTE, Wi-Fi, and GPS
- Debugging – USB-C port for debugging
- Power Supply – 9V to 36V DC or solar power supply with electricity monitoring (Solar Kit optional)
- Dimensions – 180 x 130 x 60 mm
- Enclosure – IP65 Unify Enclosure made of ABS plastic
- Temperature Range – -30°C to +55°C
- Humidity – 0~95 % RH non-condensing
The gateway ships with pole mounting brackets, a vertical mounting kit, and either a 1.5-meter DC cable or a 1.5-meter cable for the “Battery Plus” kit. The gateway runs the company’s WisGateOS 2 operating system based on the latest OpenWrt kernel with additional security, customizable extensions, and remote management capabilities via WisDM.
The gateway supports a range of LoRa Network Servers such as AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, The Things Network (TTN), Chirpstack, and ThingPark by Actility. You’ll find more details about the hardware and everything to get started on the documentation website.
RAKwireless says the RAK7267 WisGate Soho Pro Gateway is ideal for Smart Agriculture (e.g. greenhouse monitoring), Smart Cities (e.g. lighting), industrial IoT, and remote monitoring solutions. The gateway can be purchased on the RAKwireles store for $199 until July 16, after which the price will be $239. The RAK Battery Plus solar battery kit with a 50Ah battery and solar panel sells for $817. It happens to be RAKwireless’ 10th anniversary, and the company has a sale for a few items including the WisBlock Meshtastic Starter Kit for off-grid messaging.
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