Fully Mobile M2M Communications Tailored for Warehouse Automation
Rajant has changed the infrastructure of the manufacturing, warehouse, military, agriculture, energy, and oil and gas markets forever. How? With the development of a credit card-size dual-radio breadcrumb module. You get fully mobile M2M communications tailored to your industry, especially warehouse automation.
Rajant Release’s The Cardinal BreadCrumb
According to the Rajant Corporation press release, the pioneer of Kinetic Mesh® wireless networks unveiled its new Cardinal BreadCrumb® module during ProMat at Chicago’s McCormick Place on March 20th, 2023. The Cardinal is powerful, lightweight, and notably the smallest within Rajant’s portfolio of industrial wireless nodes. Rajant is now taking orders for this first-ever BreadCrumb module specifically tailored to the needs of robotic automation in the warehouse market and Industry 4.0. But what does this little credit card-sized breadcrumb do?
On-The-Go Connectivity for Your Moving Industry
The Cardinal was developed for collaborative robots, automated storage/retrieval systems, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), unmanned guided vehicles (UGVs, and more. The Rajant Cardinal can enhance your on-the-go connectivity in the most challenging environments because the Cardinal extends the range of traditional Wi-Fi past the limitations of fixed infrastructure with no line-of-sight requirements using two transceivers having a combined data rate of 1.73 Gbps. In addition to robotics and infrastructure in warehouse automation, this wireless node offers applications as part of irrigation in agriculture, reclosers in energy, PLC controls in oil and gas, drone and UAV in the military and light show markets, and process automation in the manufacturing industry.
What Does This Mean for Global Warehouse AUTOMATION & Manufacturing Infrastructures?
According to Rajant channel partner Gray Solutions’ Ale Walker, Director of Business Development, “Rajant’s latest release, the Cardinal, will transform how organizations think about lights-out operations. The Rajant Cardinal will provide connectivity between systems within a facility and will be a critical infrastructure in manufacturing and warehousing across the globe. The benefits of having the Cardinal in facilities will enhance operations productivity and throughput within a plant and ensure connectivity between systems. The Cardinal gives the customer the confidence that its plant will stay connected regardless of the technology (robotics, AGVs, ASRs) deployed. Installing the Cardinal also provides the customer with the modularity and flexibility to scale up by deploying more systems without fear of lost connectivity in the plant and the ability to better respond to market trends, scale-up periods, and lights-out operations. Interrupted connectivity causes production disruptions, which leads to fewer products out the door, which means less profit and unhappy end users. Staying connected is one of the foundational pillars of manufacturing and warehousing worldwide.” Want more tech news and all things incredible component releases? Stay up-to-date with current events and Pacific Component Xchange by joining our newsletter.