Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC

The Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC is a very reliable, high performance fanless industrial PC. It is designed to operate 24/7 in industrial environments. It can be used as a Programmable Logical Controller (PLC) to do automation, or it can act as a Sensor Gateway, as a Modbus Gateway or as a Data Acquisition Gateway. This system includes Ozeki SMS Gateway Software and other Ozeki tools to help you perform: control and data acquisition tasks efficiently.

To see this device in action, check out the Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC Setup Instructions page.

Brand Name

Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC

Model

Single Sim, Small FF, Wifi, GPS, 5 Antennas, IP SMS, Rev 2.02

Description

This device is built by Ozeki. It is an industrial grade PC. In the default configuration it has an Intel Core i7-8550U CPU, 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD, it runs Windows 11 and Ozeki 10 SMS Gateway 10 MPS. It's mobile broadband card is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.

This industrial PC is very powerfull and reliable. It has no moving parts and is fit for challenging industrial environments. The device offers wireless SMS communication but also connect to the network over Wifi or high speed gigabit ethernet. It can be used to setup IP SMS connections such as SMPP, CIMD2, UCP, HTTP etc. It offers the full Ozeki 10 SMS Gateway functionality as a well built tested appliance.

Benefits

  • No fans / no moving parts
  • Powerful CPU
  • Fast RAM
  • SSD storage
  • Wireless SMS support
  • IP SMS support
  • Ozeki 10 SMS Gateway installed

Video

By looking at the following video you will see, that that cooling system of this PC is based on the large surface area provided by the sturdy aluminium case.

Front side

The front side of the device contains an on/off switch, a power indicator led and a hdd led. It offers two pin holes to reset the computer or to clear the CMOS. It contains a small FF SIM card slot, 4 USB ports, and a microphone and headphone jacsk.

Figure 1 - Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC

Back side

The back side of the device contains 5 SMA antenna connectors: 2 Wifi antenna connectors, 2 4G/LTE mobile broardband antenna connectors, 1 GPS antenna connector. It includes 4 USB 3.0 ports, 2 independent Gigabit ethernet ports, a HDMI and a VGA display port.

To connect industrial equipments there are 4 serial ports available on the back side of this device, 2 of which can be configured to operate according to the RS232, RS422, RS485 standards, The other 2 are fixed as RS232. All ports are accessible through the 22 PIN GPIO connector. The 2 configurable ports can also be accessed through standard 9 pin DB9 female connectors.

The system can be powered through the standard 12V adapter (included in the package).

Figure 2 - Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC back side

Connectors

Figure 3 - Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC connectors

Package contents

Figure 4 - Package contents

Insert the SIM card

Figure 5 - Insert SIM card

Weight

Figure 6 - Weight

Features

Figure 7 - Specs

Dust proof

Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC has no fans, no moving hard drives and no moving parts. It comes in a tightly sealed, strong, robust aluminium case. It's passive cooling system, where the case itself is designed to dissipate heat, makes it fit to operate on vehicles or in challanging industrial environments.

Figure 8 - Dust proof

Supported operating systems

This devices comes with Windows 11 + Ozeki SMS Gateway preinstalled. The device also supports the following operating systems. (If you decide to reinstall the system, Ozeki SMS Gateway 10 will activate itself automatically for the new OS). Reinstallation can be done using any standard Windows 11 USB installation drive.

  • Windows 11
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 2022
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Ubuntu Linux 22.04
  • Ubuntu Linux 23.04

Reliable operation

When it comes to business, downtime is not acceptable. Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC takes this into consideration and both the hardware and software will provide reliable 24/7 operation. By building a redundant system with Ozeki Cluster, you can increase reliability even further.

Figure 9 - No downtime

What is inside

The keep this industrial PC compact, a double-layer circuit board design is applied. This board hosts the various components the PC offers. In the default configuration the PC comes with a PCIE high performance SSD. You can increase storage through the SATA port, where any standard SATA SSD (or HDD) can be connected.

Figure 10 - Inside Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC

Figure 11 - Dual layer design of Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC

Wireless connectivity

When it comes to Internet connectivity, Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC offers 3 methods for communication: It has 2 built in gigabit Ethernet cards, that provide wired gigabit connection. It has a built in high speed Wifi card and a 4G/LTE GSM modem, that offers both: a high speed mobile broadband interface and SMS sending and receiving capability simultaneously.

Figure 12 - Wireless connectivity

Serial ports and sensors

To control actuators and to collect data from sensors, you can use the GPIO port and the serial ports integrated on the motherboard. The system comes with a GPIO connector that give you easy access to the 4 serial ports on the system.

Figure 13 - Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC GPIO port

In the BIOS, you can configure the communication standard for COM port COM1 and COM2. You can set these ports to RS232, RS422 or RS485. This will give you the option to control Modbus and other serial devices with this PC.

Figure 14 - Ozeki SMS Gateway PLC COM ports

Hardware specifications

ozeki programmable logic controller hardware specifications
Figure 15 - Ozeki PLC Hardware specifications

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