Advantech Increases the Number of I/O Ports and Enhances the GbE Ports of the BEMG-4221 and 4222

The latest BEMG-4221 and 4222 models, designed with power management in mind, have an increased number of I/O ports, and a new low power Intel® Atom™ N450/D510 1.67GHz processor, making it ideal for connecting to a wide number of electricity, gas and water meters and thereby allowing their data to be monitored remotely using Advantech WebAccess.

The BEMG-4221 and 4222 can be connected to many different devices without the need to buy additional modules, thereby saving maintenance issues and additional costs. IO functionality of the BEMG’s is provided by4 serial ports, 2 enhanced GbE LAN ports, 6 USB ports and an audio port. To differentiate it from the BEMG-4221, the BEMG-4222 includes an extra 4 serial ports and 8 RS-485 COM ports.

Designed to work in extreme environments, the BEMG-4221 and 4222 are IP40 certified and will work in temperatures as low as -10°C and as high as 70°C, making it ideal for monitoring the power in the remotest of buildings.

To monitor and manage the power meters and variety of automation equipment and devices, it is not necessary to be in the same building since the data, can be remotely access over a LAN or the Internet using SCADA WebAccess. BEMG devices are bundled with WebAccess to leverage existing Modbus and BACnet devices without any changes, thereby reducing the cost and complexity of connection. The software acquires, displays, monitors and stores real-time data and allows supervisor to change set-points, equipment status and other parameters in the end-device. In the event of a LAN failure, the BEMG can store the data from the power modules for up to a week, thereby giving network administrators plenty of time to restore the connection. Once the connection is restored the saved data is automatically sent to WebAccess.

Managing the power usage of multiple types of power (through the Advantech PME or other energy meters), water and gas meters throughout multiple buildings is essential for building managers to determine where energy savings can be made. The BEMG-4221 and 4222 have been built to be the best devices to connect these meters too, so that the data can then be sent to Advantech SCADA WebAccess software, where it can be monitored from a central control room. With Advantech energy monitoring and saving solutions that collected energy consumption data from BEMG devices also can be easily integrated with Advantech BEMS 2.0 powerful energy analysis tool, to generate flexible reports and charts from various perspectives letting users manage a wide range of energy analysis and maintenance information efficiently.

Another use for the BEMG-4221 and 4222 is that they can be used as data convertors to take data from an RS-485 or RS-4222 and convert it to Gigabit Ethernet, therefore enabling system administrators to get the data from multiple sources.

The multiple uses of the BEMG-4221 and 4222 make them the ideal media gateways for collecting all energy usage from between 64 to 128 meters in such environments and applications as university campuses, industrial sites, facility energy management system, and power energy management system.