Why Charging Piles Need Industrial Grade Routers

Why Charging Piles Need Industrial Grade Routers?
Why charging piles need to use industrial-grade router ZX4224 instead of ordinary home router?

With the popularization of new energy vehicles, charging piles, as their core supporting facilities, are becoming an important part of smart city construction. However, in the practical application of charging piles, the stability, security and efficiency of network connection are key factors. Although common home routers on the market can meet basic network requirements in general scenarios, they face insurmountable technical shortcomings in the charging pile network environment. Therefore, choosing a professional device like industrial-grade router ZX4224 is an inevitable choice to ensure the normal operation of charging piles.

In this article, we will explain why ordinary routers are not suitable for charging pile scenarios and the advantages of industrial-grade router ZX4224 in these scenarios from several aspects.

I. Charging pile network environment specificity

The network application environment of charging pile is significantly different from ordinary home or office scenarios, which is mainly reflected in the following aspects:

Complex deployment environment:

Charging piles are usually deployed in outdoor or semi-open environments, and may face a variety of harsh conditions such as high temperature, low temperature, humidity, dust, electromagnetic interference and so on. In contrast, most ordinary home routers are designed for indoor environments and lack the ability to adapt to extreme weather and physical environments.

Highly concurrent data transmission:

With the increase in the number of new energy vehicles, a charging station may serve multiple charging piles at the same time, which involves simultaneous data access from multiple terminals. Ordinary routers have limited processing power and are difficult to support highly concurrent data transmission, which may lead to network congestion or collapse.

Continuous and stable operation requirements:

Charging piles need to run 24/7, any network interruption may lead to interruption of charging service or data loss, while home routers are not designed to consider long-time high load operation, and are prone to overheating or frequent dropouts.

Network security requirements:

Charging pile involves sensitive information such as user payment and vehicle data transmission. Once the network security is insufficient, it may lead to data leakage or system attack. Ordinary routers have low security protection capabilities and are difficult to deal with complex network threats.

II. Core Advantages of Industrial Grade Router ZX4224

Industrial router ZX4224 is designed for complex industrial environments and can fully meet the network requirements of charging piles, and its core advantages include the following:

1. Powerful environmental adaptability

Wide temperature design: ZX4224 supports wide temperature operation from -40°C to 75°C, and can work stably under extreme high or low temperature conditions, ensuring that charging piles can be networked normally in any climatic environment.

Protection level: Adopting IP level shell design, with dustproof, moistureproof, anti-vibration and other capabilities, suitable for harsh outdoor environments.

Anti-electromagnetic interference: Built-in electromagnetic shielding module, effectively preventing network instability caused by electromagnetic interference.

2. High-performance network processing capability

Support high concurrency: ZX4224 is equipped with a high-performance processor and a special industrial-grade chip, which is capable of handling highly concurrent connections of multiple terminals and ensuring the network stability of each charging pile.

High-speed transmission: Supporting 5G/4G LTE communication and Gigabit Ethernet ensures high-speed and low-latency data transmission, whether it is payment information, vehicle charging data or cloud monitoring, all can be synchronized in real time.

3. Stable and Reliable Operation

Long-term uninterrupted operation: Adopting industrial-grade hardware and heat dissipation design, it can operate under high load for a long time, avoiding downtime due to overheating or hardware aging.

Dual-link redundancy: Supports a variety of network redundancy mechanisms (e.g., dual-card dual backup, master and backup link switching) to ensure that the network can still be maintained when the main link is interrupted.

4. Strong Security

Multi-layer network security protection: ZX4224 supports firewall, VPN (Virtual Private Network), IP filtering, MAC address binding, etc. to prevent malicious attacks and network hijacking and improve the security of data transmission.

Encrypted Communication: Built-in TLS/SSL encryption protocol ensures the privacy of user payment information and vehicle data in transmission.

5. Intelligent Management and Remote Maintenance

Remote Operation and Maintenance: Supporting Web management platform and SNMP protocol, the operator can monitor the status of the router in real time through remote access and quickly troubleshoot problems.

OTA Upgrade: Support online firmware upgrade, equipment can be updated to the latest features at any time, reducing on-site maintenance costs.

III, the limitations of ordinary routers

For further comparison, the following lists the main shortcomings of ordinary home routers in charging pile applications:

Poor environmental adaptability: Ordinary routers cannot work stably for a long time under extreme temperature, high humidity or strong electromagnetic interference.

Insufficient processing power: It is difficult to cope with the high concurrent data traffic in charging pile scenarios, which may lead to network interruption or delay.

Weak security: Home routers have a single security function and lack multiple protection mechanisms for industrial applications.

Poor operational stability: easy to overheat after long hours of operation, and no redundancy mechanism, once the network interruption can not be quickly recovered.

Inconvenient maintenance: the lack of industrial-grade management interface and remote maintenance capabilities, equipment failure requires on-site replacement or restart.

IV. Typical cases of charging pile network deployment

Take a new energy vehicle company as an example, it has deployed thousands of charging piles in several cities. Initially, it tried to use ordinary home routers and had to replace them with industrial-grade router ZX4224 due to the following frequent problems:

Frequent disconnections: In the high temperature environment in summer, the router overheated and caused frequent disconnections, affecting users’ charging experience.

Hacker Attacks: The home router was implanted with a malicious program, resulting in the leakage of some users’ payment information.

High Maintenance Costs: The lack of remote management capability of the home router required frequent visits by operation and maintenance personnel, resulting in a sharp rise in maintenance costs.

After replacing the router with ZX4224, the network stability was significantly improved, the user complaint rate dropped by more than 80%, and the operation and maintenance cost was reduced by 30%.

Summary

Charging piles, as an important infrastructure for the development of new energy vehicles, have network demands that far exceed those of an ordinary home or office environment. With its excellent environmental adaptability, high performance, high stability and security protection, the industrial router ZX4224 is able to perfectly meet the network requirements of charging piles and ensure the stable operation of the charging pile system in various scenarios. In contrast, ordinary home routers are not only incapable of handling complex industrial environments, but may also face high maintenance costs and loss of credibility on the operation side due to frequent failures.

Therefore, in charging pile network deployment, choosing an industrial router like ZX4224 is the best solution to ensure system stability and user satisfaction.