Urban Lifeline Wireless Communication

To enhance the protection of urban lifelines, focusing on risk scenarios such as gas explosions, urban flooding, underground pipeline interaction risks, third-party construction damage, water pipe bursts, bridge collapses, and road collapses, Maxon is dedicated to building two core functions: "comprehensive supervision" and "intelligent monitoring," and developing specialized applications for gas regulation, drainage regulation (drainage and flood control, sewage), comprehensive underground pipeline management, third-party construction control, water supply regulation, bridge regulation, and road regulation.

Wide-Area Distributed Scenarios 

Distributed "nerve endings" such as gas wells, water supply networks, and road sensors have extremely dispersed equipment monitoring points and a large number of devices, making network coverage difficult in some areas.

Maxon uses industrial switches to wiredly aggregate nearby sensors, and then uses industrial wireless APs and industrial-grade wireless bridges to transmit data point-to-point (PtP) or point-to-multipoint (PtMP) to aggregation points with fiber optic resources.

Linear Coverage Scenarios

Urban "skeletons" such as bridges, tunnels, and main roads are distributed along linear structures, requiring long-distance, stable network coverage. 

Maxon lays fiber optic cables along bridges or roads and deploys industrial-grade PoE switches (hyperlink to switches) to power and provide network connectivity for cameras and structural health monitoring sensors along the line. For locations where wiring is inconvenient, industrial-grade APs or bridges are used for wireless connection. For example, poles are erected at both ends of a bridge, and bridges are set up for point-to-point communication to provide network connectivity for equipment in the middle of the bridge.

Complex Underground/Dense Area Scenarios

Underground pipe networks, drainage networks, and construction areas have complex environments, weak GPS signals, high electromagnetic interference, and high humidity.

Explosion-proof APs and bridges with IIB/IIC explosion-proof obtained CCC mark, and complies with ATEX and IECEx certification standards, ratings and high protection levels such as IP68 are used to adapt to humid and corrosive environments.

In large underground pipe corridors or complex construction areas, a wireless Mesh network is deployed. Even if a node fails, the data can automatically find an alternative path, ensuring extremely high reliability.

For critical main links (such as the main channel of a pipe corridor), fiber optic cables + industrial optical switches are preferred to provide high bandwidth and high anti-interference capabilities. For isolated construction areas or temporary monitoring points, industrial-grade CPE (such as the MX6522A) can be used for access via a 5G network, or as a client to wirelessly bridge to the nearest Mesh node.

Maxon's explosion-proof industrial-grade equipment meets stringent environmental requirements with its explosion-proof rating (Exd IIB/IIC T6), protection rating (IP68), and wide operating temperature range (-40 to +80℃).  It also supports dual-band and MIMO 2x2/4x4 technology, offering excellent performance and perfectly matching the construction needs of urban lifeline systems.