Beirui Sunflower recently launched a new smart plug-in board product P4, different from the use of wifi networking smart sockets, sunflower smart plug-in board P4 adopts the way of 4G network access, no longer rely on WiFi to achieve remote management and control.
In the face of this change, many friends may wonder: why under the condition that WiFi access to the network has been very mature, the plug row of the new product should adopt the 4G network access method?In what specific scenarios can the 4G socket be used?Here is a brief introduction.
Classic use case: Outdoor devices without network access
Obviously, the most direct response to the use of 4G network access is the places that cannot be covered by the wifi network, such as many outdoor equipment, including vending machines, outdoor advertising machines, various automatic feeding equipment in agriculture, etc.
If you want to carry out the most basic remote management of this kind of equipment, then remote control of its power supply to achieve remote switching is the lowest cost and the most feasible solution, Sunflower intelligent plug P4 can just meet the remote management and control of these devices.
Sunflower Smart Socket P4 comes with 5 years of traffic**, no need to purchase additional traffic, and supports 3-hole independent sub-control, which meets the needs of remote switching of multiple devices, and is more suitable for remote management of multiple devices.
Blind spot in remote management of outdoor devices: power management of the router itself
Another important reason why we need to choose 4G intelligent power strips for power supply management is that target devices with a higher and higher degree of intelligence are often a "blind spot", which is very easy for us to ignore and cause business problems - that is, the importance of different network access paths for sockets and devices.
To put it simply, with the improvement of the intelligent level of the industry, many outdoor devices themselves need to be networked, and the supporting 4G router equipment will be deployed simultaneously when the equipment is deployed, which is used to supply the entire outdoor equipment unit.
In this case, is it possible to use an ordinary wifi socket again?The answer is actually no.
If our socket is also connected to the same wifi, then if this router is "hanged", the socket will actually be "lost" and can no longer be remotely controlled;In the same logic, the smart socket of wifi access to the network is actually not able to be used to manage network supply equipment such as routers, which is the "blind spot" mentioned above.
However, the use of 4G smart socket can well circumvent this problem: 4G socket has an independent network connection, even if there is a problem with the network supply equipment such as routers, we can still achieve restart and other operations through remote control switches, in fact, it greatly improves the ability of remote management of outdoor equipment and reduces the overall operation and maintenance management cost.
A little stretch
In fact, continuing to extend this idea, it is not difficult to find that there are many other practical ways for Sunflower 4G smart socket row: although the official positioning of this product is a hardware designed for outdoor scenes, it can also play a certain role in the home environment.
For example, if we want to remotely manage the power supply of the router & cat lamp at home, then the 4G smart plug is very necessary, the three independent holes of the Sunflower smart plug P4 can be assigned to the router and the cat lamp each, and the extra one can also supply power to home database devices such as NAS.
All in all, as long as we pursue higher stability of remote management, then the use of 4G intelligent plug to separate the network access mode of remote power control from the network of the main equipment is a very simple and practical strategy, and interested friends can also combine their own situation to explore other ways to play.
About the Sunflower P4 itself: still high-quality hardware function configuration
Finally,Let's introduce the Sunflower smart plug strip as usualP4Functional configuration,This smart plug-in board device continues the excellent functional configuration of other Berry Sunflower socket devices,And it has not shrunk in other aspects because of the increase of 4G,The specific functional configuration includes:
Porous independent sub-control.
It supports three-pin independent sub-control, and one power strip is equivalent to three smart sockets, which can be used for the power supply of multiple smart devices at the same time.
Real-time monitoring of electricity consumption.
We can check the power consumption of the plug-in board at any time through the Sunflower app, including the current power, voltage, current, today's electricity consumption and other power consumption information.
Smart timer switch.
You can set the automatic switching time according to the established time or operation and maintenance plan through the Sunflower APP, and manage the unattended equipment more scientifically.
High-spec hardware.
The shell is made of 750 high-temperature flame retardant materials, and the internal battery cell adopts an integrated copper belt process, which is solid and durable, and will not be loose after 1000 times of unplugging and unplugging.
At present, the Sunflower smart plug-in board P4 has been launched on the official website of Berry and the official major e-commerce channels, friends in need can go to learn more or buy directly!