Power self payment and inquiry terminal application

The power self inquiry-payment system consists of payment platform, payment terminal and F3X25 series industrial 3G/4G router. As a new channel of electricity fee payment and power service, it brings convenience to the clients. F3X25 3G/4G router set up VPN connection with Union Pay system and electric power system by APN/VPDN private network, and report business data and manage data by private network and multiple encryption for ensuring business data and manage data safety. Via APN/VPDN, data center of electric power company can get business data and manage data from all recharge branches and make data storage, processing, application, historical trend analysis, statement print, etc.

Why clients choose Four-Faith?

1. Private network

APN/VPDN can improve reliability and safety of network.

2. VPN

support multiple VPN connection way, including IPSEC,PPTP,L2TP,GRE,OPENVPN. The encryption way ensures safety and veracity of transaction data.

3. Stability

adopt high-powered 32 bits CPU and high-powered industrial cellular module, WTD watchdog, stable system.

4. Convenient networking

operator network, no limited areas

6. Remote control

remote monitoring and real time monitoring on platform

Successful cases

Liaoning power self inquiry and payment system

Ningxia power self inquiry-payment terminal

Beijing community payment inquiry terminal

Shanghai community payment inquiry terminal

Customer's feedback

Ningxia client: power self payment and inquiry system provides 24 hours service for resident’s electric payment. F3X25 is the necessary device of the system. The key factor we choose Four-Faith is the good stability.

Top M2M Trends for 2014

Our world changes at a dramatic speed. In a few years, billions of devices will be connected to the Internet in order to be smarter and more efficient. The Internet of Things and M2M technology are unstoppable: their solutions provide us all with an opportunity to significantly improve the way we do things. In this post, I describe what I consider the top 10 M2M trends that the world will follow in the year 2014.

Consolidation of Smart Metering

The United Kingdom took a huge technological leap forward regarding its energy infrastructure in 2013. The world’s largest machine-to-machine (M2M ethernet wifi router ) contract win to date consists in delivering Smart Metering communications to have over 53 smart meters installed across the country by 2020.

It will not be the only country betting on Smart Metering so decisively. More and more countries will join in during 2014. The leadership shown by the UK Government will lead the country to significant savings for consumers (and therefore, for energy production and distribution), while boosting a cleaner energy.

Popularisation of connected cars

Now that M2M technology is reaching non-professional drivers, it will improve safety and efficiency, and will foster the multimedia experience inside cars. You will receive traffic information, alerts and even the latest reviews of the restaurant you go to in your car’s navigator in real time. If your car suffers a breakdown or an accident, it will automatically send alerts with your position and all the data available to the closest authority.

These technologies are currently available in premium models such as the Tesla-S, but we will see them in many mid-range cars during 2014.

Transport Management extends

Connected vehicles are becoming ever more common for professional segments. M2M technology enables Transport Management thanks to the processing of all the data transmitted by the vehicles (such as acceleration, distance, type of road, braking, impacts, real-time vehicle location, fuel consumption) in order to save time and money, and provide a better service. It is proven that owners who actively manage their fleet save around 15-20% in costs.

Many vehicle companies and those that require asset tracking currently enjoy these solutions. Those that do not apply Transport Management solutions are at a clear disadvantage, so the year 2014 will bring them the opportunity to avoid lagging behind.

Consumer electronics for everybody

Currently, M2M is no longer seen just as a technology targeted mainly at businesses or public organisations, as it was in the past. It is present in Smart Home solutions and all kinds of gadgets for fitness, tracking your own goods and assets, or simply entertainment. However, it is still not very extended for mid-market consumers.

New technologies for consumers will arrive and the M2M ecosystem will evolve. As a result, devices and gadgets (not only tablets, readers, etc., but also watches and all kinds of “wearables”) will be more extended and more affordable for everyone.

Insurance Telematics strikes more

Insurance Telematics enables insurance companies to know how their customers drive and thus offer significantly better insurance premiums to low risk drivers. M2M sensors monitor driving parameters in real time. This way, companies can reduce operating costs, decrease fraud, increase loyalty and differentiate from others in a highly competitive market. On the other side, customers can save money because insurance companies often reward them with special discounts for responsible drivers. But most importantly, they increase their safety by improving their driving style.

There are currently solutions deployed by TEF in Germany and Spain, and open possibilities in other countries like the UK and Brazil. Next year, new companies and drivers will join in and will benefit from this revolution in the insurance world, as insurance companies need to look for differentiation by segmenting customers according to real risk instead of demographics.

Ecosystems evolve

Ecosystem economies have given decisive competitive advantages in digital revolutions such as those of smartphones. Companies learn to use ecosystem principles to open entire new markets, like Apple and Google have done with Apps.

M2M markets are at a tipping point similar to smartphones in 2008. By empowering third-party developers to experiment, more value will be created and new users will be attracted. Although the exact successful ecosystem model for M2M is still unclear, we will see companies trying to position themselves in this sense and start applying ecosystem principles.

Big Data, big benefits

We live in the information age - the age where the information produced in one year is larger than the information previously produced throughout the history of mankind.  Big Data is trying to obtain trends and patterns in order to exploit information and M2M technology, and is becoming a key source in many sectors.

Companies are realising that the combination of M2M technology and Big Data delivers extraordinary benefits. We will see more companies sharing this effective approach.

Urban Labs spread

At Telefónica, we have described urban labs as real spaces where innovative projects can be tested in urban environments. They can bring real benefits to the citizens of a certain town by enhancing their lives in areas such as urban development, mobility, tourism or education. They help smart cities projects by facilitating and speeding them up.

As the global economy is recovering, there will be a renewed interest of city governments and other institutions to invest in these technological initiatives, such as the city of Santander [Spain] is doing right now: Santander already has more than 12,000 sensors that are improving the lives of its citizens and the efficiency of city processes. The benefits are clearer every day, considering that smart cities help save time and money in many areas, becoming cost-effective initiatives.

Certifications and standards

As new M2M technologies are born and implemented, new devices require being able to interoperate and understand the “language” of others. Technology needs standards. Institutions like the PTCRB –the wireless device certification forum by North American Mobile Network Operators– and the Global Certification Forum (GCF) work to guarantee technology performance.

Certification programmes also imply a great effort in this regard. Customers will find that any reliable M2M solution requires the proper certifications to work adequately. Companies should always meet this need in order to keep their trust.

At Telefónica, we are part of the M2M World Alliance, which aims to simplify and promote the adoption of M2M communications worldwide by giving our customers the ability to operate connected devices globally at a reduced cost.

M2M will open with hardware

We are accustomed to hearing the term “Open Software” and its implications. The open source-hardware concept is not so extended, but it is becoming popular in M2M. It applies a similar Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) approach to components. These platforms seek to make the use of electronics in multidisciplinary projects more accessible. Some can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect their surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators.

2014 is set to be an exciting year full of surprises for M2M as we progressively see an effective transformation of value chains. As M2M continues to push the envelope, we will be able to do things more efficiently and see our world in a different way. We are looking forward to seeing the next step in its evolution.

Four-Faith was invited to participate in the 1st International Hydrological Monitoring Equipment Promotion

December 1, Bureau of Hydrology and Technology Promotion Center of Water Resources jointly organized the 1st International Hydrological Monitoring Equipment Promotion, opened in Beijing. The conference invited representatives of well-known enterprises at home and abroad in the field of water quality monitoring technology to introduce related products, these products represent today’s most advanced technological achievements in water quality monitoring. Four-Faith will bringthe latest water monitoring solution and RTU to show in the promotion.

Today Hydrology caused more and more national attention, accuracy, efficiency, timeliness is a new requirement proposed by the hydrological system itself, which means the usage of new technological equipment and production methods can meet the requirements of the development of hydrology.

Four-Faith carrying water conservancy wireless monitoring solutions, including wireless soil moisture monitoring system, small river real-time monitoring system, pumping remote monitoring system, flood disasters monitoring system, reservoirs remote monitoring system, water wells remote monitoring system, hydrology wireless monitoring application, and 4G/3G/2.5G industrial telemetry terminals, industrial wireless RTU, industrial wireless router, industrial M2M wireless data transmission terminal, etc. attended the meeting.

In this promotion Four-Faith launched networking wireless communication technology, products and solutions catched the attention of water industry experts, scholars, suppliers.

F8225 ZigBee+CDMA router

    F8225 ZigBee+CDMA ROUTER is a kind of cellular terminal device that provides data transfer function by public CDMA network and ZigBee function.

    It adopts high-powered industrial 32-bits CPU and embedded real time operating system. It supports RS232 (or RS485/RS422) and Ethernet port that can conveniently and transparently connect one device to a cellular network, allowing you to connect to your existing serial and Ethernet devices with only basic configuration. Also, it supports ZigBee function.

    It has been widely used on M2M fields, such as intelligent transportation, smart grid, industrial automation, telemetry, finance, POS, water supply, environment protection, post, weather, and so on.

Design for Industrial Application

1. High-powered industrial cellular module

2. High-powered industrial 32bits CPU

3. High-powered industrial ZigBee module

4. Support low-consumption mode, including sleep mode, scheduled online/offline mode, scheduled power-on/power-off mode(optional)

5. Housing: iron, providing IP30 protection.

6. Power range: DC 5~35V

Stability and Reliability 

1. Support hardware and software WDT

2. Support auto recovery mechanism, including online detect, auto redial when offline to make router always online 

3. Ethernet port: 1.5KV magnetic isolation protection

4. RS232/RS485/RS422 port: 15KV ESD protection

5. SIM/UIM port: 15KV ESD protection

6. Power port: reverse-voltage and overvoltage protection

7. Antenna port: lightning protection(optional)

Standard and Convenience

1. Support standard RS232(or RS485/RS422) and Ethernet port that can connect to serial and Ethernet devices directly

2. Support intellectual mode, enter into communication state automatically when powered

3. Provide management software for remote management

4. Support several work modes

5. Convenient configuration and maintenance interface（WEB or CLI）

High-performance

1. Support 3G/HSPA/4G WAN access methods

2. Support ZigBee function

3. Support VPN client(PPTP, L2TP, OPENVPN, IPSEC and GRE)(only for VPN version)

4. Support VPN server(PPTP, L2TP, OPENVPN, IPSEC and GRE)(only for VPN version)

5. Support local and remote firmware upgrade,import and export configure file.

6. Support NTP, RTC embedded.

7. Support mulitiple DDNS provider service.

8. Support MAC Address clone, PPPoE Server 

9. Support multi online trigger ways, including SMS, ring and data. Support link disconnection when timeout

10. Support APN/VPDN

11. Support DHCP server and client, firewall, NAT, DMZ host , URL block, QoS, ttraff,statistics, real time link speed statistics etc.

12. Full protocol support , such as TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, SMTP, HTTP, POP3, OICQ, TELNET, FTP, SNMP, SSHD, etc.

13. Schedule Reboot, Schedule Online and Offline,etc.

The smart way to improve the quality of life: a perspective from Latin America

The increasing tendency towards urbanization, derived from rural migration to the cities, is undoubtedly one of the most relevant processes of the twentieth century. In developing countries, this migratory process has been reinforced due to high birth rates which have resulted in an important increase in urban population growth.

Three of every four Latin Americans, which are more than 400 million people, live in cities. Some of the biggest cities in the world, such as Mexico City and Sao Paulo, are in Latin America. We live in what can truly be considered as mutant, chaotic and complex organisms. We also live in a part of the world which fights to emerge from a situation of underdevelopment and which has achieved great progress in the past decades. However, it still faces significant problems of marginalization and poverty.

Latin Americans yearn to live better. We understand progress as an increasing demand in standards of quality of life and the configuration of an environment of guaranteed essential securities.

What could have appeared to be a “perfect storm” (demographic changes in an environment of subjacent poverty which made living conditions in the city for a significant part of the Latin American population unviable), is today a reality which is only just beginning to change.

A fundamental part of this change is associated with information technologies. The implementation of these solutions based on the intelligent management of information has resulted in many improvements in our urban habitats: the security in our cities has increased, public transport is more pleasant and efficient, health benefits have a higher quality and coverage, education is facing new challenges, and democracy itself is gaining legitimacy thanks to greater transparency and the involvement of citizens in a deliberative process.

However, there’s no doubt that the challenges are greater than the advancements that have been made.

The realities are heterogeneous and not every city advances in the same way. But the hundreds of success cases of objective progression in our region indicate that the answer to that shared longing for a better living is building increasingly smarter cities.

It is becoming clearer that technological development is what spurs transformation in today’s tech era. However, technology alone does not guarantee a higher quality of life. Technology is and has always been a powerful tool to build realities, to speed up and improve productive, scientific, educational and social processes; but above all it is an instrument which requires a long-term strategic vision to be used to its full advantage.

We are seeing the decisive impact that technology is having in everyday life. In the day to day of a city as the densely populated urban areas that they are, the digitalization of daily life is transforming cities from the past into digital cities.

Building digital cities is a citizens’ process carried out by them for themselves. Digital cities aren’t a software which can be installed or a solution which an authority decides to implement. A digital city is a continuous learning process, where technologies, abilities, leaderships, volition, and above all, the dreams of every citizen are combined. In the same way that human beings never stop learning, cities can only become more or less intelligent. “The” intelligent city doesn’t exist.

A digital city can only be built when variables such as political will, long-term vision, public-private partnerships, investment in telecommunication infrastructures, technological innovation, applications which deliver digital services of the city to its inhabitants, training in digital skills and a lot of citizen involvement converge together. 

This is why a digital city is only possible when there is a digital ecosystem which supports it. This digital ecosystem’s first building block is telecommunications. Without a telecommunications network it is impossible to advance in a digital city project. As time passes, the effective, inclusive and innovative use we give these networks at the service of the citizens will be just as important.

The construction of interoperable and ideally open information systems based on sensors, data transport networks and aggregation mechanisms, information analysis, citizen service platforms, among other technological components are an essential and fundamental part of the construction of an intelligent city. Although technology is a necessary condition, relying only on that is not enough. The citizens are the ones who give life to this ecosystem, and they are the ones who should take technology into their own hands, by using it, valuing it and enjoying it.

Building the future in the present means turning into reality the ethics of networks, sharing and learning from others experiences. We are driving the formation of an alliance between South American smart cities, so that the cooperation and sharing of good practices is a permanent experience. In this same context, other telecommunication companies and digital services alongside Telefónica are supporting the creation of intelligent cities by advising local governments in the construction of their digital agendas and demonstrating the social and economic value they offer a city which systematically incorporates advanced technological systems.

We strongly believe in public-private partnerships as an important development axis. We have the vocation and compromise, as the telecommunications industry, to drive the development of content, applications and services for the digital ecosystem and to support with great emphasis the municipalities who have the idea of improving the lives of their citizens through the intense, efficient and sustainable use of information and communication technologies.

Our challenge is to improve the quality of life of 400 million Latin Americans who live in cities. We will only be able to rise to the challenge as soon as we’re capable of creating a partnership between national and local governments, telecommunication and digital services companies, in an environment which favors innovation, entrepreneurship and investment and stimulates the active involvement of citizens in building a better standard of life for us all. 

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M2M For Cities,M2M Industrial router for live

When you hear the phrase M2M (Machine to Machine), what do you think of? If you’re like me, the first time you hear it you might picture a complex futuristic-like factory with machines interacting and connecting with one another. And although M2M is about the communication between machines, it’s so much more than the name suggests. With the name M2M, you have to read between the lines (or in this case, the machines): the power behind M2M is the data that enables insightful, actionable information. And, perhaps the most life-changing M2M （M2M company --Industrial router supplier ） impact is that of our cities speaking to us.

Most people would agree that good communication is key to any relationship. And yet, we’ve lived in cities for years without being able to communicate with them. Do we still adore them? Yes. Do we still feel bonded to them? Yes. Do we still identify with them and feel pride for them? Yes. Do we know what’s really happening in them? Not even close – or at least, not in real time until a citizen, commuter, visitor reports an issue, or in the worst case, not until it’s too late (think infrastructure.)

I’ll admit that having a city talk may sound strange in theory (What would it say? What would it sound like? Why does it matter?). In reality, it is going to drastically improve our quality of life. And when you compare it to other living and non-living things you try to talk to – your pets (‘Come over here, Fluffy.’ or ‘Why are you barking?’) to your car (‘Why are you making that noise?’ or ‘Turn on the radio, please’), it’s actually really not that far- fetched at all to recognize how neat it would be if we could communicate with our cities. If we could talk, they could talk, we could listen to each other, and we could fix a problem – or find a solution to an inefficiency that we didn’t know previously existed.

The City: Claiming Its Independence, and Freeing Us From a Lack of Information

There are so many inefficiencies, significant amounts of money wasted, quality of life impacts, and even strong safety concerns from a lack of the two-way communication and action with our cities. M2M lets our cities become connected so that they talk to us, we talk to them, and city systems talk to each other. It releases our cities from dependence on other people so it can tell its own story all on its own. The connected M2M city is a city that is proactive rather than reactive and takes care of problems either on its own – or by alerting us immediately.

What does this look like, exactly? It means that transportation systems – from buses, to parking spaces, to trains, to cars – all talk to each other to make the most efficient schedule to move people through the city as quickly and safely as possible. It means that if a streetlight turns off or carbon monoxide in a home is detected, city personnel are instantly dispatched. It means citizens and visitors feel safer walking alone at night. It means that garbage trucks know which cans actually need to be emptied. It means that air quality can be monitored continuously. It means we know when a building isn’t structurally sound.

We’re just beginning to start the new revolution of our cities and our lives. It is a revolution that shifts the city from being speechless its entire existence – one that must wait for others to report actions, or for people to discover issues by the time it is too late – to an intelligent system that predicts issues before they occur and responds immediately.

Today, sensors are becoming cheaper, people are more aware, and there are real M2M solutions happening right now that are making our cities talk. You could almost make the claim that cities are moving from their dependent childhood state into their independent adulthood. But, how do we get there?

M2M is the Door, But City Leaders Hold the Key

The technology is here. But we are not there. Why? So much of the possibilities available via M2M lie within the power of our city leaders.

Local is key for impact. Grass roots action and improving issues at a local level are often the biggest ways to impact positive change. And the biggest way to do that is to know what is happening, in real time, and make locally based decisions instantly.

City leaders have always had a direct role to improve people’s lives. However, with a lack of information flowing to and from the city, the city itself was preventing leaders from reaching their full impact.

Now that M2M is here, we can expect a better quality of life and more economic growth. But we need local leaders and citizens to embrace, believe in, and pursue what is just starting to unfold in front of us. We’re in the process of seeing whom the early adopters are when it comes to M2M. My advice to city leaders is this: welcome M2M technology. It can be your and your citizens’ best friend. But you need to start. It’s not where you start, but that you start.

Four-Faith ZigBee Products for Agriculture Green House Monitoring System Application

　　In traditional agriculture, the methods that people gain the farmland information is limited,mainly by  manual measuring.It costs lots of human labor.With the great innovation of the agriculture technology, Protected Agriculture has became the important parts of the modern agriculture.The environment monitoring system based on sensor and communication network plays an important role in Protected Agriculture.Especially the environment monitoring network based on wireless communication technology is developing fast.　

    The present wireless environment monitoring network is mainly based on trunked communication system.There are some disadvantages such as high cost of network construction, high difficulty of maintenance and low public network access rate.They all have effect on the promotion of the protected agriculture.Based on the ZigBee technology,Four-Faith come up with the agriculture green house monitoring system based on Zigbee Technology. The system will collect the temperature data,CO2 data,humidity data in real time,and then set on or set off the certain device. It will deal with the data     according to the request of user,The Zigbee Module will collect the single from the sensors,and transfer the data through wireless transceiver module to realize the green house remote monitoring.

    The system consists of there layers, node layer, network layer and application layer.Node layer is the inspection and control unit, cover all the wireless sensors nodesNetwork layer is the part of communication and transmission part,including the internal communication parts based on zigbee, external network communication parts based on GPRS and the gateway. Network layer can realize the networking, and set up the communication mechanism to be the exchange media of the upper application and sub-layer device.Application layer including the data base and remote control manage component, is the convergence analysis of the data, realize the human-computer interaction.

　　Four-Faith product is mainly used in the network layer, use Zigbee Terminal F8914 as the  center node, and Zigbee module F8913-E as communication equinoctial.Every node of Zigbee will trasnfer all the information from every node to the central node F8914. The central node F8914 will transfer the collected data via GPRS to the monitoring managing center.The center will deal with the data.

    The system can collect the data of soil humidity ,nitrogen concentration,precipitation,temperature and air pressure,and send the data to the remote managing center via Gprs. The manager will sent out the control command according to the collected information to make the related department to take the corresponding measures. By this system, the manager only need to stay in the office, he then can take the command of the statue of the temperature,humidity and CO2,sunlight and reduce the cost, improve the output of crops.