Four-Faith 3G Industrial router for self-service terminal application

    The population is densely in the cities of China, some of the necessities of financial payment behavior for life - such as water, electricity, gas, phone charges, traffic travel, bus card recharge, transfer payment, some people are going to a variety of units to pay, some bank or postal savings as a payment window. Banking hours are limited and cumbersome authorization process workload, payment and other problems caused make large number of people pay hard. With 3G wireless business mature, communication equipment networking demand is gradually enhanced, self-service terminal industry from the initial ATM industry expand into convenient payment, self-ticketing, advertising and other various applications. The emergence of self-service terminal solve the problem of the public to pay for all the cost. In the terminal site, with a personal assistance operation, to provide consumers with a fast, convenient and safe service.

    Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd. started to work with Shanghai self-service terminal operating manufacturers in 2011, Four-Faith provide 3G router for 3G networking of self-service terminal over Shanghai subway, Hongqiao hub, business circle, commercial buildings, district government offices, railway stations and other cities nationwide.

     The system is consisted of self-service terminal, Four-Faith 3G router F3X25 and service center. Among them, self-service terminal is including controller, player terminal and display terminal, user operation terminal.

     Topology is as following:

Four-Faith 3G router for self-service terminal application

Self-service terminal connect to Four-Faith F3x25 router via Ethernet interface, and operation management service center use dedicated circuit as a network access.

     Industrial router F3X25 access to Internet via wireless network, and there are two kinds of networking can be achieved to establish a connection with the service center system: first, the use of special network VPDN Or ANP private network; secondly, through the VPN. Self-service terminal establish communication link to directly exchange data with center management service. Business data of self-service terminal exchange directly with the center via Four-Faith F3x25 router.

The tide in the mobile Internet, self-service terminal system is becoming an import medium for many businesses marketing via Four-Faith 3G router. Four-Faith F3X25 router achieve data transfer steady and rapid, reduce the cost of operation and maintenance of equipment, resolve their worries, allow them to focus on their core business better.

     Shanghai partner locate self-service terminal mainly in Shanghai subway with the average daily passenger flow reached 500 million, of which the peak passenger flow over 6 million people, the media value is immeasurable. Its convenience, timeliness, low cost and network marketing are better than traditional television, newspapers and other media, outdoor self-service equipment location-based service is more accurately achieve marketing for merchants to bring more customers, but also more businesses customers to the manufacturers.

Four-Faith router successfully applied in automatically pollution monitoring project in Hunan Provin

     According to SEPA on accelerating “three systems” work arrangements of the pollution reduction targets, monitoring and evaluation, an environmental protection factory make the construction of the "automatic monitoring system for key pollution sources" to monitor waste water, waste gas and urban sewage treatment plant of hundreds of key polluting enterprises in Hunan province. By installing state-controlled pollution automatic online monitoring devices in the enterprises, the device will collect the pollution data and transfer the data to the environmental monitoring center, monitoring center then alarm for excessive data.

     Since most of these pollution resources companies are in the suburb area, away from the telecommunications access points, the companies will need to pay a lot for line cost of 20,000 yuan per kilometer if laying cable access. Take the case of urban living garbage disposal site for example, the place is about 5km from telecommunications access room, to have fiber access, they need to pay 10 million one-time line construction costs. But as much traffic pollution data acquisition, Telecom 3G signal coverage in the region, and allows off network after resuming, they can use Telecom's CDMA EVDO/1X for transmission, adopt the solution of 3G wireless VPDN access.

     First to install and configure a L2TP network server(L2TP Network Server, hereinafter referred to as LNS) in the environmental monitoring center, and access to the internal network. Measured in the telecommunications L2TP access concentrator configuration (L2TP Access Concentrator, hereinafter referred to as LAC). Users using Four-Faith 4G/3G wireless router F3X34 for L2TP protocol dialing, establish a VPN tunnel between the user and the environmental monitoring center to data transmission. Their network topology as shown below.

On-site data acquisition equipment

Monitor center

Router

Concentrator

Network

Base station

Tunnel

F3x34 router

On-site data acquisition equipment

      This 3G wireless VPDN access can be widely used in somewhere need remote access to the enterprises, such as enterprise remote offices, mobile acceptance business, remote data acquisition, etc., can greatly improve the efficiency of enterprises and level of information. In this case the user using Four-Faith 4G/3G wireless router F3X34 as wireless VPDN access, not only for the enterprise to save a huge amount of network costs, convenient, flexible, rapid deployment approach also praised by the Environmental Protection Agency, the next step is to provide a technical basis to improve monitoring range of the Environmental Protection Agency.

On-site application

 

On-site application

Four-Faith’s vision of a smart city

There is no one universally accepted definition of a smart city, but all of them have something in common: they are cities that make the most out of technology. Four-Faith’s concept is quite flexible and our aim is to provide solutions which suit the needs of every urban environment.

Four-Faith(Wireless Industrial Router) is trying to boost a change in the way that citizens interact with their cities thanks to more efficient services. This is a factor which fits in with the current economic crisis and which coincides with the moment where technology for smart cities is reaching a certain level of maturity.

We offer a service model rather than a model based on investment. So much more can be done with the money that cities currently spend on services. Four-Faith doesn’t just look to implement technology, but to improve services thanks to it.

Following our vision, we have seen that services in cities are isolated. Rather than working together, they are independent from each other. The way to manage these services used to be through dedicated resources: a number of people, of trucks, etc. Four-Faith supports a more transversal approach. We offer a platform that enables the City Council to have a complete vision of all the services that it provides which is focused on results which is what matters, not on resources. If the city is clean, who really cares about the number of trucks that pick up litter? Our city platform makes the exchange of information possible for optimal decision-making.

There are many examples which illustrate integration. One of them is the integration between weather stations and irrigation systems. It allows parks and gardens to be irrigated only when it is necessary. This can save up to 20% in water.

Since we are one of the few players which are able to offer end-to-end solutions, we also provide the City Council with vertical systems, such as smart parkings, waste management, public lighting, building efficiency (that gets energy costs savings around 30% for our customers)... Everything depends on the particular needs of each city. A smart city doesn’t happen overnight. The City Council decides the starting point of what is in reality a never-ending process.

Four-Faith’s vision of a smart city

There is no one universally accepted definition of a smart city, but all of them have something in common: they are cities that make the most out of technology. Four-Faith’s concept is quite flexible and our aim is to provide solutions which suit the needs of every urban environment.

Four-Faith(Wireless Industrial Router) is trying to boost a change in the way that citizens interact with their cities thanks to more efficient services. This is a factor which fits in with the current economic crisis and which coincides with the moment where technology for smart cities is reaching a certain level of maturity.

We offer a service model rather than a model based on investment. So much more can be done with the money that cities currently spend on services. Four-Faith doesn’t just look to implement technology, but to improve services thanks to it.

Following our vision, we have seen that services in cities are isolated. Rather than working together, they are independent from each other. The way to manage these services used to be through dedicated resources: a number of people, of trucks, etc. Four-Faith supports a more transversal approach. We offer a platform that enables the City Council to have a complete vision of all the services that it provides which is focused on results which is what matters, not on resources. If the city is clean, who really cares about the number of trucks that pick up litter? Our city platform makes the exchange of information possible for optimal decision-making.

There are many examples which illustrate integration. One of them is the integration between weather stations and irrigation systems. It allows parks and gardens to be irrigated only when it is necessary. This can save up to 20% in water.

Since we are one of the few players which are able to offer end-to-end solutions, we also provide the City Council with vertical systems, such as smart parkings, waste management, public lighting, building efficiency (that gets energy costs savings around 30% for our customers)... Everything depends on the particular needs of each city. A smart city doesn’t happen overnight. The City Council decides the starting point of what is in reality a never-ending process.

Four-Faith will attend Shanghai International Exhibition on Electric Power Equipment and Technology

In recent years,with the support of national policy,the Internet of thing grows more and more hot and promotes the fast development of the smart grid application in China.China’s smart grid emphasizes on the six steps of power generation, power transmission,power transformation,power distribution.power utilization and power dispatch in the power system.It is based on the communication platform and possesses with the features of informatization,digitization,automation and interaction.

   As a specialist of the internet of thing M2M wireless communication,Four-Faith’s industrial wireless communication products and software platforms have widely used in the power supply of solar energy and wind energy monitoring,distribution line monitoring,feeder monitoring,reactive compensation,switches on pillars,electrombile charging spots monitoring,intelligent meter reading and so on.Four-Faith wireless communication devices effectively supply the important technical support for every link of the grid,realization in stable information safety,reliable transmission,coordination handling,uniformed services and application integration.Four-Faith have gained good reputation from the partners in the smart grid field.

   2013 Shanghai International Exhibition on Electric Power Equipment and Technology(2013 International Exhibition on Electric Automation Equipment and Technology) which is hosted by China Electricity Council will be held in the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition& Convention Center(Hall 1,Hall 2) from Oct.30 to Nov.1.It is a old-line,largest and most powerful power show in the domestic electric power industry,with the area of 35,000 square meters and 1000 exhibitors at home and abroad.Four-Faith will attend this distinguished exhibition with 4G/3G wireless communication routers,IP modem(DTU),ZigBee embedded module and the application solution of the internet of thing in smart gird.,display completely the newest wireless communication technology and application solution.We sincerely invite the new and old customers,integration businessman,project businessman and professionals to visit our booth and guide,for promoting  the update and development of some  related intelligent application and realizing the huge economic and social benefits together.

Date:Oct.30 ---Nov. 1

Add:No.1099 Guo Zhan Road,Pudong New Area,Shanghai World Expo Exhibition& Convention Center(Opposite China Pavilion)

Booth:2H32(Hall 2)

M2M technology gives us the chance of doing things better

The smart meter is the foundation of a smarter life. They will enable innovation in the smart and connected home creating new opportunities with remote and automatic climate control, enhanced security and intelligent purchasing.

It is the promise of the smart home that is getting consumers excited. A huge 87% want additional connected services with a smart meter and this demand will see connected devices in the home rise from four today to 16 in 2015 (via industrial HSPA router). It will also vault the global smart home market skywards with it jumping to $51 billion by 2020 (via Markets and Markets).

M2M is a great opportunity to play a major role in this transformation by becoming global leaders of this thriving, fascinating and dynamic industry. We feel privileged to have the opportunity to work on it.

So, besides providing flexible, global solutions to M2M necessities, we also have created this space for sharing. We want to bring this new reality of a connected world to our millions of clients around the world. It is our vocation and the main purpose of Four-Faith to improve the life or the people we care the most. And so, as part of this task, we believe it is of utmost importance to have a place to get the feedback from our customers.

In this blog, we hope to share our knowledge and experiences with clients, partners, suppliers and specialists, as well as this spirit of building the better world we want.

We trust this common knowledge will allow us to continue developing solutions and systems that improve the living quality of our cities, our life, our work and our spare time in them.

M2M technology gives us the chance of doing things better. Would you like to join us in our journey?

We know about wireless communication, more know about self-service terminal network

　　Vending machine is a sign of the level of city development, a common equipment of commercial automation. In developed country, vending machines cover all streets, with an average of 20 people have a vending machine, it becomes a kind of consumption habit. In China, rising rent has become the biggest cost of retailers, and the human cost is also more expensive, the characteristics of unattended, 24 hours of operation allow rapid development in China.

　　In the just-concluded  the 10th China Self-service & Vending Show exhibition, many domestic and foreign self-service terminal manufacturers show the newest self-service products, such as a self-lottery machine, self-vending machine, self-service coffee machine, self canteen vending machine, even for crab sales, gold sales, show the vitality and high popularity.

self-vending machine for gold sales

self-vending machine for lobster sales

　　Different from the traditional vending machine, these advanced automatic vending machines is a network terminal, operator can real-time monitor the operation, online payment, adjusting supply chain timely and promotional advertising in the touchscreen of each vending machine.

　　　Four-Faith is the first company to explore wireless communication technology applications in the field of financial and self-service by investing technology and resources. Provide powerful equipments and technical supports for independent research and development of IOT wireless communication router, M2M data transmission terminal for wireless network construction, security encryption, remote maintenance, supply chain management, advertising management.

　　　Four-Faith self-service wireless router, M2M data transmission terminal

　　　In this exhibition, Four-Faith displayed wireless router, DTU and so on, one-stop solution to all kinds of product demands and technical problems of self-service terminal wireless networking, widely accepted by many self-help terminal manufacturers and operators. During the 3 days of exhibition, Four-Faith booth is one of the most popular booth, communication products and self-service terminal networking solutions sold out within a day which are planed to spare 3 days.

　　New and old customers come to Four-Faith booth

Speed up informatization of chain of tea enterprise, Four-Faith WIFI shows strength

　　September 26th, Chain of Tea Enterprise Informatization Forum held in held in Fuzhou. The general assembly invited leading industry experts and Fujian tea industry elite, business executives to discuss the chain of tea enterprise informatization marketing. Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd as the designated technical support to participate in the general assembly, and provided industrial WIFI router for it.

　　The congress focused on how to popularize the chain of tea enterprise informatization solution, raising the level of informatization of tea enterprises, through information technology to achieve enterprise informatization management, expand new media marketing means, open up e-commerce new sales channels and other aspects, bring new ideas for the enterprises in the aspects of management, cost saving, sales promotion.

      With the business development of tea enterprises, rapid expansion of chain stores, a major problem is derived: how to efficiently manage these stores? How to timely control the important data of sales, stock, in transit, distribution, payment collection? 

      Four-Faith 3G/4G wireless router F3X34 provide network access, can establish a connection of IPSEC between chain stores and headquarters, chain stores submit financial information, sales information to headquarters data server through IPSEC encryption, the headquarters use these data to do statistics, analysis, management, decision to realize effective remote management.

      In the meeting, the experts discuss about micro-marketing, one hundred audience participate in the interaction of micro-blog and micro-message by intelligent mobile phones, through Four-Faith industrial WIFI router can quickly receive stable signal, playing micro-blog and micro-message let the consumer process more easier and have more fun.

      With the maturity of 3G technology, communication requirements of the large chain stores also gradually improve, Four-Faith 3G/4G industrial wireless router has been successfully applied in many large tea chain stores network system, provide technical support for tea enterprise informatization promotion.

Speed up informatization of chain of tea enterprise, Four-Faith WIFI shows strength

　　September 26th, Chain of Tea Enterprise Informatization Forum held in held in Fuzhou. The general assembly invited leading industry experts and Fujian tea industry elite, business executives to discuss the chain of tea enterprise informatization marketing. Xiamen Four-Faith Communication Technology Co., Ltd as the designated technical support to participate in the general assembly, and provided industrial WIFI router for it.

　　The congress focused on how to popularize the chain of tea enterprise informatization solution, raising the level of informatization of tea enterprises, through information technology to achieve enterprise informatization management, expand new media marketing means, open up e-commerce new sales channels and other aspects, bring new ideas for the enterprises in the aspects of management, cost saving, sales promotion.

      With the business development of tea enterprises, rapid expansion of chain stores, a major problem is derived: how to efficiently manage these stores? How to timely control the important data of sales, stock, in transit, distribution, payment collection? 

      Four-Faith 3G/4G wireless router F3X34 provide network access, can establish a connection of IPSEC between chain stores and headquarters, chain stores submit financial information, sales information to headquarters data server through IPSEC encryption, the headquarters use these data to do statistics, analysis, management, decision to realize effective remote management.

      In the meeting, the experts discuss about micro-marketing, one hundred audience participate in the interaction of micro-blog and micro-message by intelligent mobile phones, through Four-Faith industrial WIFI router can quickly receive stable signal, playing micro-blog and micro-message let the consumer process more easier and have more fun.

      With the maturity of 3G technology, communication requirements of the large chain stores also gradually improve, Four-Faith 3G/4G industrial wireless router has been successfully applied in many large tea chain stores network system, provide technical support for tea enterprise informatization promotion.

What is a smart building with M2M industrial wireless router?

Smart buildings are much about energy saving. This is probably the main approach to the concept, but there are also other features that differentiate a ‘normal’ building from a smart one, such as security controls, the remote control of elevators and disaster prevention systems.

Energy saving is a fundamental issue because buildings consume more energy than transportation or industry sectors, accounting for nearly 40 percent of the total U.S. energy use, according to the U.S. Departament of Energy. This means that just a little effort in saving energy in each one would derive in a huge amount of resources. Also, there is an enormous room for improvement, up to 30 or 40 percent, depending of the kind of building.

There are many ways to achieve this. In Four-Faith’s main building in Santiago de Chile, for instance, we are developing a network of sensors that measure the consumption of air conditioning, central heating, light and energy in elevators to calculate the electrical performance of the building, and to be alerted when some device or system is wasting more than the usual amount of energy in order to take care of it. We estimate that the system is able to save up to 30% of energy.

There’s no point in having the air conditioning on if no one is in the room. This can be solved automatically without any human intervention thanks to M2M industrial wireless router . It is capable of monitoring each room and detecting whenever someone is there to act accordingly. 

Although many of the efforts to smarten buildings up is through ways to reduce energy consumption, there is a great variety of technologies that contribute to making a building more comfortable for anyone living or working there. Another pillar of a smart building lies in its  safety. A network of connected fire sensors monitored from a smart platform is one example. Surveillance cameras and connected elevators and escalators that can be managed remotely are others features of a smart building.

Putting customers at the heart of M2M industrial router

As I’m sure everyone is aware, we are in the middle of a Digital Revolution.  Yet as an industry we have this strange tendency of taking amazing, life changing & truly transformational innovations & trends and giving them strange names and odd descriptions!  We talk about the connecting things and regularly use terms like machine to machine or M2M (Industrial Router).  Yet the value for us as a business and for our customers isn’t around the connection but the benefits that it brings to help people in the everyday lives.

In life as human beings we are constantly searching for Meaning and Value. And it’s through this customer lens that I want to look at some of the most exciting developments in this digital revolution. Namely, “Big Data” and the “Internet of Things” or through my chosen lens, “Big Value” and the “Internet of Meaning.”

Why is this important? It isn’t just about changing the words but it’s about adopting a customer centric approach rather than one that is technology focused.  It enables us to look at the real customer benefits that we can bring to life to help customers in this new digital world and not to talk about the technology or number of connections.

The traditional way of looking at the industry is by reference the 50billion potential connections, a possible $1.2trillion opportunity and the 25% year on year growth. Now these are big, impressive numbers without a doubt but let’s approach this in a different way and view it through our customer lens. What really inspires me and stirs my imagination is how all this maximises some very different statistics. Think about what this means for you and me – the number of seconds each and every one of us has available each and every year – 31 ½ million give or take!  That’s an impressive stat in itself but now times it by 7 billion people and counting. Think about how much data we are capable of creating and what we could enable.  Now that’s truly a big number which means every second really does count.

So the issue becomes not how much data we produce - how” big” the data is if you like - but how we use it. How can we use the potential of an increasingly connected world and the rich data that it provides us with to ultimately add value and meaning to people’s lives?

To create the “Internet of Meaning”, we need firstly need to make it simple for customers so that it becomes a catalyst for adoption and enjoyment. It’s about building relationships, NOT enabling transactions. To do this we need to deliver benefits that the customer values. And they need to be accessible by everyone. So that it benefits the daily lives – at work and at home.

Big data sounds complicated. It sounds vast. It’s conceptually challenging to envision how this new world will add meaning and value. We need to provide a personal touch, the reassuring feeling that the system and the sensors are serving and understanding the way we work and interact as people in an intelligent way. And we need to broaden accessibility so that it really does achieve its potential.  Accessibility will be a significant factor in both adding value to the network - the greater the crowd, the greater the wisdom - and for guiding the sustainability and healthy development of the “Internet of Meaning”. 

In Conclusion... It’s a truly exciting time and we are in the middle of a digital revolution.  Everyone agrees that the scale will be huge. What's coming is a perfect storm where the systems, software and capability come together to build a connected and more social world.  More and more people and devices are getting connected every day. Devices are getting smarter, costs are going down and availability is going up. Applying a customer lens, success for us all will be measured by how much we enrich people’s lives by delivering Meaning and Value.

All around M2M data

M2M generates a big amount of data. On the one hand, all connected devices provide us with a lot of information. On the other hand, we are constantly seeing predictions and estimations about how many millions of things are connected, how many will eventually be connected and how much money this business generates. Here’s an overview of what’s happening in the machine-to-machine industry.

Data regarding the industry varies according to different studies. Four-Faith (M2M industrial wireless router ) states that 80 things per second are being connected to the internet. By 2020, more than 250 things will be connected every second. This makes a total of more than 50 billion things which will be connected to the internet by this year. This is a huge number, but lower than the one that IDATE gives. They assure that 15 billion objects were connected to the Internet in 2012. In 2020, there will be 80 billion, according to IDATE.

If we center ourselves on vehicles, Strategy Analytics estimates that by 2017 there will be 140 million connected cars on the road globally. This seems like realistic data taking into account that there are currently around 3 million vehicles that are directly connected to the data centers of only one manufacturer: BMW.

Taking a brief look at the industry of POS terminals, Berg Insight forecasts that the base of cellular terminals that will be installed will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 21.4 percent between 2011 and 2017. They will reach 29.4 million units worldwide by 2017. This is just another example of the huge amounts of connections per sector that exist.

At home, data is not so impressive, but if we add all the homes of a given country, we realise that  the predicted 50 internet-connected devices there will be in each one by 2022 is also an important number.

And, what about money? Operators are already generating strong revenue in this sector, amounting to $10 billion worldwide in 2013, and increasing to $88 billion by 2023, according to Analysys Mason. If we look at the big picture, which doesn’t strictly include connected devices, the amount grows: an analysis from Frost & Sullivan reveals a $3.3 trillion market potential in smart cities by 2025, including infrastructure development, technology integration, and energy and security services.