2013年7月17日星期三

To feel the wisdom and embark on a new journey Four-Faith 5th anniversary celebration held in Xiamen

To feel the wisdom and embark on a new journey
    Four-Faith 5th anniversary celebration held in Xiamen


    
    June 22, Four-Faith 5th anniversary celebration ceremony is held in Xiamen headquarters. Employees and their family, customers from afar, dealers, suppliers and all friends gather together to witness our growth, share our joy.
  
    5 years sedimentation, blooms like flowers
    5th anniversary, looking back, it is short and long, pure and wonderful. 5 years, it is the brilliant portrayal of Four-Faith people adhere to the value of “Honest, Trust, Confidence, Belief”, seizing the opportunities of IOT development, working hard and achieving success.
    As a creative mission of enterprise, knowledge innovation, technology innovation, management innovation are the driving force of Four-Faith 5 years development, from the first industrial wireless router born in Four-Faith, Four-Faith product line from industrial wireless communication terminal extending to LED wireless release, remote elevator monitoring, disaster warning and other fields; cooperated customers cover water, finance, electric power and other industries. Gradually sets up Xiamen as the center, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan and other key regional office as branches of domestic sales network; overseas market, Four-Faith has begun to sale in Austria, Spain, Malaysia and other 25 countries.
  Four-Faith creatively puts forward the service concept of “three fast, three no”, to provide qualified product and professional services. Our company has passed ISO9001, CE, FCC, SGS and other quality system certifications, production license, won the national invention patent, was named Fujian high-tech enterprise, software enterprise, advanced enterprise trade union organization, happy enterprise, M2M networking partner of three big operators.
  
  In additional to the global vision, hard working, innovation, from the value orientation, the biggest difference of Four-Faith is emphasizes on the win-win cooperation with customers, suppliers, humanistic care to the employees and partners, and grows together. It’s these values strengthen Four-Faith R&D capability, layout sales network, establish supply chain and intimate cooperation relationship, to be the leader of IOT wireless communication field.
  
    To feel the wisdom and unlimited growth    
    March 18 to June 22, we held a period of 3months, the theme of “ stay with us side by side here, instead of looking up elsewhere” series of 5th anniversary activities, focused on enterprise culture construction, occupation ability improvement, team and personal growth, entertainments etc., recorded our growth and wished the bright future.
  
    Calligraphy and painting, photography, writing competition
  
  5 years, for Four-Faith people, it is very important time point, It connects with the past achievements and opens the door for hopeful future, review the past and look into the future, we have a lot of thinking, all of us put our writing, photography, experience, memories, feelings and thinking turn into pictures and articles.

  the winners
    “Four-Faith star” sales pacesetter competition
    The competition is the important content of learning-type organization construction of the company, to launch team wisdom, mutual learning, mutual promotion.
  
                                        “Four-Faith star” sales pacesetter
    
  Quality improved, Four-Faith QCC improvement activity concluded happily  
  Through this inter-department joint OCC activity, makes the mechanism of Four-Faith QCC activity more perfect; at the same time, further strengthens the quality awareness of employees, through full participation, the quality and production of Four-Faith product will reach a higher level.

    

    Four-Faith OCC daily seminar
  
  entertainments
 

    The eagle catches chicken,  Team leader of fun sports champion, runner-up throw the ball, push and pull and second runner-up
    basketball game
    Like professional players in the amateur team

 

                                    basketball players     representatives of basketball champion
                      
    thanksgiving customers activities     
    Friendship never fade, thanks for the customers always support and trust, walked side by side in the past 5 years, to witness the growth of Four-Faith.

    social public welfare activities  
    Participate in socially useful activities makes Four-Faith more beautiful. Four-Faith Communication Technology Co. Ltd. involved in promoting "The Second Peitian Spring Ploughing Festival ", Four-Faith expect more people to concern about the rural areas by holding the rural public service activities and using a large number of media propaganda resources; through subsequent helping activities,so that more resources rush to come in and new thinking, new ways to integrate; let the young people to see hometown hope, retrieve and love his hometown.


  
    Four-Faith carnival celebration    
    “ stay with us side by side here, instead of looking up elsewhere ”. We use trust to express our reverence for life; use confidence to pursue our dreams. Four-Faith 5th anniversary celebration party held in the cheers.

  

    5th anniversary party, new and old friends to celebrate the Four-Faith 5th anniversary birthday

     
    Recite the poem:the happy life i can imagine, everyone is full of love and kindness, and will eventually realize the birthright dreams.

  Sing a song: waves of Gulangyu, the melodies represent Xiamen’s temperament and Four-Faith people’s enthusiasm.
    
      
   The piano solo: my homeland and I, let us experience eternal relationship between the homeland and us.
   
   
    Play guitar: little romance, to feel the classical and elegant feelings

  
  
    Dance: rejoice, to spread the joy and gratitude.
  
  
    Sketch: a journey west--Bajie forces a marry
 
 
    Four-Faith partner, general manager, Sui, sang a song Beijing, Beijing, to express pursuing dreams, Four-Faith would like to work together with our partners to dream, share and grow up.


  Dance: the 8th set of broadcast gymnastics, very humorous
  
  
    your, my and his life, occupation and career, starting today, each one will have a unlimited window to the bright future.

 
    Adhere to Four-Faith value and embark on a new journey  
    5 years is a long time, hard climbing pushed Four-Faith rapid growth in IOT wireless communication. 5 years is a short time, the dream of intelligent IOT is just beginning. “China dream” has win the support among the people, the activities of achieving “dream” is rising in the land. In the future, Four-Faith will always adhere to  the value of “Honest, Trust, Confidence, Belief”, join hands with you to face the challenges, casting the ecological industry chain, to improve the development of the industry and achieve win-win.
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The American customer visited Four-Faith, to discuss industrial 4G router cooperation issues

Recently, the American customer visited Four-Faith, colleagues of Foreign Trade Department warmly welcomed the guest from afar, and accompanied the guest to visit M2M IOT wireless communication equipment workshop,testing room, R&D room etc..

It was reported, the American customer wasthe powerful system integrator in local market, that was the excellentpartnership of United States a few big operators, through early dayscommunication with sales person and sample testing, he gave great affirmationon the excellent performance and market potential of Four-Faith industrialwireless 4G router,and decided to come to our company personally to negotiate future strategiccooperation plan of American market.

In the products showroom, Four-Faith engineer introduced in detail the development process of Four-Faith communication, FCC/CE/SGS and other complete product quality certificates, new products of wireless data transmission and new technologies. Specially showed Four-Faith F3X34 4G industrial router and Zigbee equipment, and did in-depth exchanges on the customer’s questions of all kinds of technologies and applications.

Through Four-Faith engineer detailed operation, demonstration and explanation, the customer praised Four-Faith complete product lines, excellent product quality, thoughtful after-sale technical service and Four-Faith staffs’ serious working attitude, he said have confidence about the future cooperation, and confirmed the cooperation detail son the spot.
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2013年7月16日星期二

Gas Station Data Communication Based on GPRS

1.      Preface

With the fast-growing of Chinese economy and transportation infrastructure, more and more people have their own auto, at the same time, more and more logistics company has been set up to focus on the transportation of cargos, which contribute too much to economy and people’s life. As we all know, oil is the essential materials of auto, truck, etc., in this case, gas station has played an important role on the vehicle. With the popularity of gas station national wide, how to monitor and manage the gas stations anywhere has become a tough topic to the oil companies in China.

Traditional gas station information system is hard to meet current need of security of data transmission and data storage, which real time, fast and wide range data transmission among all gas station is needed. Thus, a solution based on GPRS network has been found to solve this problem.

2.      System analysis
System requirements
1.       Gas station data acquisition terminals
The role of data acquisition terminal is as below
A.      Gas station oilcan real time data monitoring: it can monitor the input and output of oilcan, pipeline leak condition and environment of oil storage in real time.
B.      Oil dealing data: it can collect all dealing data which is helpful for sales and marketing analysis for oil companies.
C.      IC card system data: automatically collect the data of oil dealing and e-payment

2.       Wireless data transmission device
Four-Faith F2103 GPRS IP Modem designed with TCP/IP stack, supports transparent data transmission and RS232/485, etc.(For more info, please log onto www.fourfaith.com/En )

3.       Data center
The main role of data center is, gas station business management(collecting and managing the business data from all gas station), security management(remote monitoring the gas station), data management(database backup and recovery, etc.)

3.      Brief Introduction
Gas station data acquisition terminals are connected with Four-Faith GPRS IP Modem F2103 via RS232 or RS485, and public IP, APN and ADSL can be used for accessing internet for data center.

When F2103 is connected with server of data center based on GPRS, a TCP/IP connectivity tunnel will be established for transparent data transmission. So once F2103 get the data from data acquisition terminals, data will be transferred to server of data center, also, the data acquisition terminals can communicate with the server via F2103.

4.      Diagram

GPRS IP Modem
GPRS IP Modem

The Internet of Things style, even Facebook "good" can be materialized

Facebook mobile is not cool, you know what’s cool? The Facebook page "good" counter moved to the merchants’ window of reality. Frankly speaking, there is nothing essentially contact between these two things, but from the French startup Smiirl product Fliike not only looks cool, but is like a bridge to the merchant's virtual identity and entities linked together.

Facebook mobile
Facebook mobile
Long term, Smiirl intends to use this concept for merchants to create a "reinventing virtual link between social and physical identity" ecosystem. Smiirl has its own funds and Le Camping nonprofit incubator support from France, although the company purely from equipment sales to profit, but Nadaud also hinted the company is building an ecosystem in the future to bring the company additional profits.
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2013年7月15日星期一

Street lights real-time monitoring system based on GPRS network

1.Background
With the swift development of urban construction, road lighting quality continues to improve, the Government and people are becoming more concerned about the street lighting and the city image.
2.The drawbacks of the traditional timing control
1.1 Not real-time control
1.2 Not been able to switch lights
1.3 Feedback information can not be
1.4 Serious waste of electricity
1.5 Failure is not found in time
1.6 Frequent adjustment cycle lights
3.System analysis
  3.1.1 Streetlight Control Terminals
   Streetlight Control Terminals are consist of Industrial computer, electric power measurement SCM, multi-channel control board, monitoring board; including power carrier module (EPCW) and input/output interface board. Streetlight Control Terminals can control every light on/off, electric power load conditions, the lamp pole damage, leakage alarm alarm functions.

Streetlight Control Terminals
Streetlight Control Terminals
3.1.2 Wireless transmission equipment
   F2103 connected to PLC built-in Streetlight control terminals via R232/RS485,then connected to data server via GPRS network. F2103 can exchange info with the data server. Four-Faith F2103 GPRS IP Modem designed with TCP/IP stack, supports transparent data transmission and RS232/485, etc.(For more info, please log onto www.fourfaith.com/En )
F2103 GPRS IP Modem
F2103 GPRS IP Modem

   3.1.3 Server
       All data come from weather data loggers of remote sites will be processed and stored, analyzed, etc., then displayed via B/S or C/S.

4.      Diagram
 
5System Benefits
Economic
 Reducing the time to turn on the lights , extend the life of electrical light source, reduce management operating costs to improve the economic efficiency.
Social
 Street lights maintenance in time greatly reduce the lighting management of complaints    and reduce road traffic accidents is good to the city's security. To be a tremendous social benefits and further improving the city's image.
Management
Significantly reducing maintenance response time, improve maintenance efficiency, and ensure street lighting rate,so resulting in great economic and management efficiency.





A new generation of Ethernet transmission standard will promote the development of industrial automation

The role of network in automated production is irreplaceable, whether wired or wireless, absolutely now the trend is wireless network, industrial Ethernet applications in production accompanied by the rapid expansion of automated transformation.
With the increasing levels of industrial automation, the relative overall effective operation structure has become even more complex, will be filled with all kinds of electronic equipment throughout the plant, how to manage production, which is related to the feedback and processing of various types of data.

Thus, the requirements for Industrial Ethernet also began to gradually improve. Fast data transfer will be one of the current Ethernet development themes. Recently, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) announced, start to set up the working group of 802.3StandardforEthernet, to explore a new generation 400Gbps bandwidth of Ethernet transmission standards.

The new dawn of the formation of the Ethernet protocol, will directly stimulate the development of Ethernet in industry. Meanwhile, high-speed Ethernet protocol deepening study, for the realization of industrial automation, promoted very obvious.

2013年7月12日星期五

Hydrology Water Monitoring System

Preface
With the development of the society, the impact of human activities, flood disasters is becoming more and more frequent accidents. It has heavily damaged people’s life and property.
Adhere to “prevention in advance, combining prevention with control", we must establish a mountain water conservancy project which can prevent flood disasters system including forecasting, early warning capability and emergency command
ability .So that we can protect people’s lives and property after getting the early warning information.
Second, the project analysis 
2.1 System components 
Hydrology and watershed management, flood control and monitoring system by the center, sub-centers (county and city) stations, field units constitute a set of three hydrological telemetry network. The completion of the system will improve the hydrological information collection, transmission and processing methods, data collection and reduce the time required to forecast operations, improve the reliability of information collection and transmission, information processing capabilities to improve flood control basin. 
Watershed management center through the LAN or WAN computer network and sub-centers all over the data transmission between stations, and mainly to provide data for various applications, such as flood control and information collection and processing system , flood monitoring system, flood control consultation display system, information retrieval system, meteorological service system, flood control system, damage assessment system. 
Hydrological information collection terminal station 2.1.1 
Hydrological information collection station can be divided into water stations, rainfall stations, and installation by the composition of the corresponding sensors, and accurately capture relevant real-time water level and rainfall data. 

2.1.2 Wireless communication terminal 
Wireless communication terminal installed in the collection station, the station responsible for collecting and monitoring the hydrological collector bi-directional data communication between the centers. In view of the acquisition of the communication interface and other factors to consider, we choose FourFaith F2103 IP MODEM,
which with RS-232/485 interfaces, metal design, it has a small, low power consumption, configured using simple, plug and play . Support the standby data path, parallel data channels to support a variety of real-time online and on-demand online work, such as off the assembly line and equipment on a regular wake-up and support APN network access and other functions not only safe, reliable data protection also allows customers to savings rates to be transmitted.

2.1.3 Monitoring Center 
Monitoring center mainly by the central server and system software group,which is responsible for the acquisition of the hydrological stations upload up data analysis, storage, various control instructions issued by the monitoring stations and publish a variety of early warning information.
2.2 The overall system architecture 
 The overall system architecture

Data acquisition equipment acquisition station RS232/485 communication interface via a serial connection with the F2103, the monitoring center server can use an ordinary ADSL line or other APN as a network access. 
Communications equipment F2103 Internet access through the wireless network to connect to the monitoring center server host, create a transparent data channel.As long as the resulting data collection terminal to the serial port, F2103 will send the data to the server host center. Uploaded onto the server host receives the terminal data of the primordial comprehensive analysis of the data and the various judgments
issued to the terminal control command, control instructions issued by the host server through the channel after the transfer to the F2103, F2103 sent through the serial port to a collection terminal, in order to achieve transparent bi-directional transmission of data. 

2.3 System Function 
1) data reception, processing: real-time telemetry stations received rainfall, water and other information; automatically checks the data frame format, and make reasonable judgments; filling time scale, auto storage. 
2) response, the query: Query time or under the site of artificial rainfall, water and work status. 
3) Database management: Includes the original, historical, forecast, or the formation of the results database, search, query and so on. 
4) Data output: can display (including large-screen display), printers, plotters and other output histogram of rainfall, water level, flow process lines, such as rainfall charts and so on. 
5) Flood Forecasting and Scheduling: initialization parameters, including flood forecasting, the parameter set / change, time off-line assessment report forecast, reservoir optimal scheduling, results storage, output. 
6) Network Communications: LAN or WAN can access data sharing, enabling multiple computers serial communication, via the telephone line data transmission can be realized. 
7) Status Alarm: Set the alarm according to rainfall, the water level value, automatic sound and light alarm, and through telephone lines to achieve the alarm telephone language 

Third, the project implementation plan framework 
3.1 The collection terminal and communication device 
F2103 IP MODEM supports RS232/485 communication interface, RS232/485
collection terminal can be connected with the IP MODEM, interface definition as shown below:

The collection terminal and communication device
The collection terminal and communication device
3.2 DataCenter network access

3.2.1 Dedicated Access 
Center line with APN, all points within the network using fixed IP 
Client Center access via a dedicated mobile companies 2M APN GPRS networks, Internet routers between the two sides fixed IP address using a private WAN connection, the GGSN and the Mobile Internet routers using GRE tunnels. 
Assigned a dedicated customer APN, ordinary users may not apply for the APN. For GPRS Network in special network SIM card to enter the APN, to prevent other unauthorized users from entering. Users in-house RADIUS server for internal users to access the remote authentication server (or APN router, the router is enabled local authentication). Only by authorized users are allowed access to ensure the internal security of the user. 
DHCP server in-house users (or APN within the router, enable DHCP function), as assigned by the user authentication of users within the address. 
Between mobile terminals and server platforms with end to end encryption to prevent information in the transmission process possible leaks. 
Use a firewall to isolate the two sides and the firewall on the IP address and port filtering. 
Such programs, whether real-time, security and stability of a solution than before has greatly improved the safety requirements for higher data points are more demanding real-time applications. The case of funds, the best networking.

3.2.2 ADSL dial-up connection (dynamic public network IP address) 
Center for the public network using ADSL connection, etc. INTELNET, the use of public network dynamic IP + DNS resolution service. Customer first with the opening of the dynamic DNS service provider to contact domain name, IP MODEM connected first address by domain name DNS server, and then find the center of the public network DNS server dynamic IP, the connection is established. In this way the public
network can greatly reduce the cost of a fixed IP, but the stability of the DNS server, the stability of the subject, so to find a reliable DNS service providers. Such programs suitable for small-scale applications.

3.2.3 IP connection through the fixed public network
Center for the public network using ADSL connection, etc. INTELNET, using a fixed IP public network services. Such programs first INT ERNET operators and other broadband ADSL application, the center has a fixed IP in public network. IP MODEM launched directly connected to the center. Reliable and stable, recommended such a program.

3.2.4Data Center Software Platform 
The Construction Centre client software has a variety of ways, for the incoming data in different ways, we offer different software to help customers quickly realize the center side of the data reception and management of field devices. We offer three ways the center of the interface: 
Data Center Software Platform
Data Center Software Platform

 The first thing is about the configuration software, the current configuration software manufacturers have integrated many of our drivers, and can be directly configured to use; followed by reading the serial port for the program was originally to provide a virtual serial port software (TCP2COM); Finally, for those who want to develop their own unique data center software to customers, we will provide a dynamic link library, and our company's data center software, open source not only for themselves but also assist clients throughout the data center software and functional development. Through dynamic link library customers may quickly develop a flexible, stable, fully functional interactive device management and data center software.

 Fourth, the program features 
1, low power consumption, high accuracy, stability, reliability, strong anti-lightning and interference, each measuring unit can be connected to several different types of sensors.    
2, System security, high reliability, timely and accurate analysis of the data. 
3, Through the wireless network access, can be completed in a short period of time within the jurisdiction of the scanning station, monitoring the working status of hydrological telemetry system, and can judge the equipment is working properly, and to achieve status collection and remote output. 
4, The terminal can display real-time data center status information, historical information, detailed location information, and other datas. Terminal 
Parameters of transmission module supports remote configuration changes, control, devices do not have to work for a few changes to the site, the operation of the system, save a lot of manpower and resources.
5, Terminal transmission module supports a variety of wake-up methods, such as voice, messaging, data, and reliable network connectivity, smart anti-dropped calls, supports online monitoring, online maintenance, dropping features such as automatic re-drawing to ensure that equipment is always online. The moment when the terminal equipment failure can send SMS alerts notify maintenance personnel. 
6, Terminal transmission module supports a variety of wake-up methods, such as voice, messaging, data, and reliable network connectivity, smart anti-dropped calls, supports online monitoring, online maintenance, dropping features such as automatic re-drawing to ensure that equipment is always online. The moment when the terminal equipment failure can send SMS alerts notify maintenance personnel. 
7, The transmission module is the primary backup center and the main center features automatic reply, while support for simultaneous multi-center function (up to 5); data centers to support multiple access methods, such as APN, fixed IP, dynamic IP, dynamic domain name and so on. 
8, the equipment used industrial design, metal case, external power supply DC 12V/500mA; Communication current: <250mA 
(12V); Operating temperature -25 ~ +65 º C; Storage temperature -40 ~ +85 º C; 95% relative humidity (no condensation); multiple hardware and software watchdog. 
9,We can provide secondary development kits and multi-language version of the data center server software to customer needs for secondary development; the same time for the customer's needs, providing a variety of technical support, including networking products, network design, technology personnel training, software development technology with full equipment on-site commissioning technical support services. 

V. Summary of the solution 
The system established on the basis of the wireless communication network for data transmission, the central system in real time, accurate access to the terminal data, quickly to make judgments after data analysis.
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