3G-Enabled Field Gateway for Collecting Industrial BLE Sensor Data

Abstract

Sensory data from industrial and agricultural facilities represents a valuable source of information about the system state and operation. In order to collect and store this data, some of the already existing local networking IoT technologies can be used. However, industrial IoT solutions are often deployed in areas with limited Internet connectivity, and delivering this data to the cloud represents a challenge. In this paper, we propose the design of a field gateway device, deployed in the industrial IoT solution with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) sensors. The gateway stores BLE sensory data locally and periodically delivers it to the cloud using 3G cellular network connection.