Teltonika RUTX & Unwired Edge Cloud

We are pleased to present to you the latest devices of our continuously expanding Unwired Edge Cloud hardware: The Teltonika RUTX models RUTX11, RUTX12, RUTX14, and RUTX50 can now be seamlessly integrated with the Unwired Edge Cloud OS.

The RUTX devices offer a variety of features, ranging from SIM switching to multi-modem support in the case of the RUTX12, and are ideally suited for the Unwired Edge Cloud due to their excellent price-performance ratio. All devices comply with high EU safety and quality requirements for use in vehicles, thanks to E-Mark certification. This not only ensures compliance with strict regulatory standards but also guarantees reliability and durability under the dynamic conditions of road traffic. Additionally, the RUTX11 is certified for railway use and, due to its compact size, provides a perfect solution for applications such as trams. Leverage Teltonika’s hardware and our advanced connectivity platform to orchestrate your networks more efficiently in the future.

Which benefits does the Unwired Edge Cloud offer?

Unwired Edge Cloud OS introduces a wealth of new features and benefits for your network management. These include:

Centralized Management: Increased security through automatic updates, time-saving creation, and management of smart networks in a user-friendly web interface – with Unwired Edge Cloud OS, you have full control over all your devices.
Comprehensive Connectivity: The Unwired Edge Cloud provides state-of-the-art connectivity, ensuring fast internet access for your vehicles and passengers even in challenging conditions or areas with poor network coverage. Thanks to multiple modems, the RUTX models are suitable for deploying Unwired CloudLink, our modern WAN-Bonding as a Service solution in collaboration with our partner Bondix Intelligence.
Central Telemetry: With Unwired Edge Cloud OS, you have access to comprehensive telemetry data, helping you better monitor and optimize the performance and status of your devices.
API-First & Cloud-based: Our cloud services are entirely API-driven, providing you with high flexibility in managing, capturing metrics and telemetry, and applying configurations across multiple devices. This greatly simplifies integration into existing systems.
Cutting-Edge Public WiFi: Thanks to state-of-the-art network management, you can create, configure and equip all WiFi networks for passengers and service staff with an easy-to-use WiFi portal in no time.

The combination of Teltonika’s RUTX series and our Unwired Edge Cloud is more than the sum of its parts. By integrating the powerful RUTX devices into the Unwired Edge Cloud, you can leverage the full range of device features while benefiting from the advanced management and analytics tools of our platform.

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To learn more about the numerous benefits of Teltonika RUTX routers and their integration with our advanced Unwired Edge Cloud OS, our sales representatives are at your disposal. Contact us using the form below!

Lanner R6S Integration with Unwired Edge Cloud: An Overview

Good news! Our Unwired Edge OS now supports the Lanner R6S Rail Computer (SKU B/C). This development marks the first time we’ve integrated a Lanner device with Unwired Edge Cloud, offering much more than just compatibility.

Getting the most out of the R6S:

Hardware enhancement through software: with our Unwired Edge OS, you fully exploit the potential of the powerful Lanner R6S. Thanks to a simple installation routine, the comprehensive network management features of the Unwired Edge Cloud can be used immediately, and zero-touch configuration lets you integrate your device into your network in no time at all.

These features await you!

CloudLink: Maximum connectivity

In collaboration with Bondix Intelligence we offer state-of-the-art Packet-based WAN Bonding as a service. By seamlessly merging multiple network connections, CloudLink enables speeds of up to 1 Gbps and ensures seamless and uninterrupted data flow. This improvement in connectivity is critical, especially in scenarios where a stable and fast connection is paramount. Placement in Tier 1 data centers ensures security, and bonding setup takes just seconds in our user-friendly interface.

WiFi portal on board: Always available thanks to local installation on the vehicle router.

Imagine a scenario where passengers can seamlessly access important content such as passenger information and entertainment, even when there is no active Internet connection. Our on-board WiFi portal, deployed directly on the vehicle’s router, makes this vision a reality. With this innovative feature, vehicles become information and entertainment centers in their own right, enhancing the overall passenger experience. Content such as passenger information is differentially synchronized to all vehicles in the fleet efficiently and in a data-saving manner thanks to the Unwired Edge Cloud.

Edge computing: support for real-time applications

Turn your vehicle into a mobile data center. Containerized applications allow data processing directly at the source, enabling real-time analytics. Docker/OCI container integration opens up the possibility of installing applications such as Automatic Passenger Counting from our partner Interautomationdirectly on your vehicle router. This leads to a reduction in the need for specialized hardware in your vehicles and at the same time opens up new efficiency potentials.

The perfect combination: Lanner R6S and Unwired Edge Cloud

The Lanner R6S, with its Intel Core™ i7-7600U CPU, 16 GB DDR4 RAM and 2.5-inch removable frame, is ideal for demanding edge computing tasks. With its 10 PoE-enabled LAN ports, the R6S not only simplifies device connections, but also reduces cable clutter and optimizes vehicle setup. In addition, the R6S SKU B/C meets the power supply tolerances required by the standard, ensuring flexibility and compatibility in a wide range of deployment scenarios.

This is how you get your R6S with the Unwired Edge Cloud:

Given this feature set and its tremendous processing power, the Lanner is the perfect choice for your next project. To learn more about the benefits of the Lanner R6S and its synergy with our Unwired Edge OS, please contact our helpful sales team via the contact form below.

Even Offline feels like Online

With the Unwired On-board WiFi Portal

Psst… In our industry, we don’t like to talk about it, but trains can also be offline sometimes. Tunnels, mountainous regions, limited network capacities, crossing country borders and the associated network switch – as much as we would like it, a 100% internet coverage is simply not guaranteed with the current network infrastructure.

For passengers, this situation understandably leads to frustration: the WiFi connection is established, only to be greeted by a continuously spinning loading icon when trying to access the WiFi portal? Not exactly building trust. A passenger would like to place a food order while in a tunnel, only to be greeted by a “Page Not Reachable” message? Plenty of time to reconsider purchasing from the onboard restaurant.

With the On-board WiFi Portal from Unwired, these problems will become a thing of the past.

On-board vs. Cloud WiFi Portal

From a passenger’s perspective, there is no difference between an On-board or Cloud WiFi Portal – however, for the operator, the difference is significant. After selecting the respective Wi-Fi network, in both cases, passengers are greeted by the Unwired WiFi Portal, which provides travelers with essential route information, connection details, news, entertainment offerings, and many other contents. But while with the Cloud WiFi Portal the provided content, as well as the portal itself, initially need to be retrieved over the internet, the On-board WiFi Portal is served directly from the vehicle’s router and thus loads independently of the internet connection.

There are several significant advantages for our customers as a result:

Content such as passenger information is differentially synchronized across all vehicles in the fleet thanks to the Unwired Edge Cloud. This process is fast, saves valuable data volume, and reduces ongoing costs.
The enhanced user-friendliness contributes to increased customer satisfaction – thanks to seamless roaming combined with the On-board WiFi Portal, customers always feel well-connected.
Our captive portal, whether on-board or cloud-based, is easy to use even for users without HTML knowledge, allowing them to populate it with editorial content in just a few clicks. This reduces administrative costs and enhances the company’s appearance.
Standardized yet flexible: Our WiFi portal is designed as a standard product that is compatible with future generations of devices, while still being customizable to meet your individual requirements.

The Unwired WiFi Portal is run as a Docker/OCI Container or as a virtual machine. On Unwired Edge OS-enabled devices, it is ready to use within minutes.

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The Unwired On-board WiFi Portal

Our On-board WiFi Portal is an absolute lightweight and runs extremely reliably even on very compact routers like the Netmodule NB3800, and can even provide a media portal for license-free content on devices of this price range. And the best part is: The Unwired Captive Portal can also be virtualized to run on existing routers and servers, such as those from Icomera, in the vehicle, to provide Unwired Edge WiFi. Setting up the portal is extremely simple. With just a few clicks, the portal can be created and filled with initial content. With the help of Edge Cloud device management, it can be assigned to device groups or individual devices in no time. The intuitive and user-friendly interface of the Edge Cloud allows even less technically savvy users to customize the portal in no time. On the other hand, technically savvy users will especially appreciate the functionality of the on-board portal.

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Technical functionality

Technically speaking, the Unwired On-board WiFi Portal is an integrated passenger WLAN solution that includes all necessary components such as a Captive and Media Portal, DNS and DHCP servers, software-based router, bandwidth management, monitoring, and DNS-based content filter. The Unwired On-board WiFi Portal can be combined with internet access services (VPN, Bonding, etc.) from Unwired or other Internet Service Providers and operates completely autonomously, even in the event of an internet uplink failure.

All content managed through the Unwired Edge WiFi Content Management System or sourced from external providers is differentially synchronized to the integrated storage of the routers. Ongoing content changes are updated with low latency using a push mechanism, ensuring timely updates. In contrast, all Unwired portals that are delivered directly from the Cloud Service over VPN are referred to as Cloud WiFi Portals.

The On-board WiFi Portal enables WLAN users to seamlessly roam between other On-board and Cloud WiFi Portals (e.g. at stations). Roaming between independent routers within the same train is also seamlessly possible with the offline portal. The allocation of IP addresses is secured through fleet-wide automatically allocated subnets, enabling seamless roaming of clients even on the IP level.

In terms of the WLAN feature set, both the Cloud and the On-board WiFi Portal support the Captive Portal API (RFC 8908) to signal the presence of the Captive Portal to modern WLAN clients. Furthermore, all connections are TLS-encrypted, ensuring secure communication.

Typical deployments of the On-board WiFi Portal can serve between 100 and 1000 simultaneous users. For example, a Netmodule NB3800, in combination with the On-board WiFi Portal and Unwired CloudLink as a WAN-Bonding solution, can easily serve 100 or more users, while larger multicore Intel devices like the Lanner R6S can even handle up to 1000 users.

Maximum availability and customer satisfaction with the Unwired On-board WiFi Portal.

The Unwired On-board WiFi Portal provides both travelers and companies with a reliable, always available solution for sections of the route with poor network coverage. It enables seamless roaming, reduces ongoing costs, and provides a user-friendly interface that is suitable for both technically savvy and less experienced users. In short: With the Unwired On-board WiFi Portal, even being offline feels like being online.

If you too want to benefit from the advantages of the Unwired On-board WiFi Portal for your business, do not hesitate to contact our technical experts. We are happy to support you in setting up your individual portal and tailoring it to your specific needs.

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WiFi connection for ÖBB Postbus

The starting point: desire for connectivity

With 135 million passengers per year, ÖBB Postbus GmbH is the largest bus company in the Austrian market. With such a high number of annual passengers and routes located primarily in rural areas, the desire for reliable connectivity for the entire fleet was a major challenge for the bus company. Especially the fact that the majority of passengers consists of schoolchildren, who attach great importance to a stable Internet connection during their ride, highlighted the need for the move towards a digital and connected fleet in order to remain competitive.

The solution: Unwired software and Teltonika hardware

In this context, Postbus identified its need for a universal solution which, on the one hand, guarantees reliable connectivity regardless of location and, on the other hand, entails uncomplicated installation and management. In the course of a public tender, Unwired Networks finally succeeded in convincing the client with the Unwired Edge Cloud as well as the Teltonika high-performance router RUT955 compatible with it. Equipped with LTE Cat 4 Internet, Dual SIM and Auto-Failover, the router meets all the requirements for stable connectivity.

As the project continued, the Unwired Cloud OS firmware was installed on all devices, allowing setup to take place in minutes after installation on each bus, without complicated on-site configuration. Maintenance also presents no problems with the Unwired Edge Cloud, which manages and monitors all device and network settings. Since Unwired Networks, as an Internet service provider, also assumes liability for data traffic and enables the blocking of unwanted content via content filters, the company is additionally protected from abuse by users.

By the end of the project, thanks to the combination of user-friendly software, feature-rich firmware, and compatible hardware, each ÖBB vehicle had the desired passenger Wi-Fi solution in place. Learn more about the entire project here.

The advantages of Unwired Edge WiFi

Unwired Edge WiFi guarantees a stable Internet connection for both stationary and mobile applications and under changing signal conditions. Integration is quick and easy for all vehicles or other environments. In addition to real-time route information, your passengers also benefit from a WiFi entertainment program with content such as video, audio or e-books. With Unwired Edge WiFi you can count on:

smart device management,
reliable connectivity,
easy installation
and legal security.

Learn more about Unwired Edge WiFi here!

The advantages of Teltonika RUT995

The Teltonika 4G router RUT955 can be used for industrial as well as automotive applications. Its compatibility with Unwired Cloud OS as an operating system provides it with functions such as passenger WiFi or remote management. This remote access ensures that faults can be fixed quickly and software updates are performed automatically from a distance. The powerful router is equipped with:

Ethernet,
GNSS (GPS),
microSD and USB.

Learn more about the RUT955 here!

In our partner Teltonika’s perspective case study, the network concept used at ÖBB Postbus is illustrated through a detailed graphic – learn more about Teltonika’s solutions here!

This was InnoTrans 2022!

Unwired Networks attended InnoTrans 2022 from September 20th-23rd, presenting the capabilities of Edge Networking, Edge Compute and Edge WiFi. In a total of 42 halls, over 3000 exhibiting companies welcomed around 150,000 visitors.

Edge Networking & Edge Compute

The focus of our new booth concept was on Edge Networking and Edge Compute. In the context of this, both state-of-the-art hardware exhibits were presented and numerous consultations on software solutions were held. During a small refreshment in the form of fresh lemonades, coffee and popcorn, our visitors informed themselves about:

reliable data connections,
the central vehicle router,
fast set-up of the Edge WiFi,
cloud-based management of vehicle networks and
resource-saving application virtualization.

Hardware

Compatible hardware innovations were presented to match these solutions. Among them, on the one hand, the high-performance WiFi 6 Access Point AP 3400 from Netmodule, which can be used in the railroad sector or in other areas with similarly high requirements. The NB3800-UW railroad router and the Teltonika RUT955 for automotive and bus applications also attracted the attention of the visitors. All technical specifications and devices from Unwired Networks can be found here: Go to Unwired Edge Hardware.

We are happy to have been part of this year’s InnoTrans 2022, and would like to thank you for the many interesting conversations with new as well as existing contacts and can’t wait to be exhibitors again in 2 years and actively shape the future of mobility.

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