The 280C-5 concentrator is part of Spire Metering Technology's AMI system, providing a data rich communications platform between the end point meters, repeaters and a utility’s communication server. Data flow is structured around three principal areas: Data Source (end point meters), Data Acquisition (the components responsible for collecting and communicating), and Data Control.
The concentrator is capable of 2-way real time communication between the concentrator and the utility communication server. Remote network diagnostics is enabled between the utility communication server and the concentrator. The
280C-5 has a 360° area wireless coverage. The GPRS programmable gateway Cellular Modem offers quad-band GPRS connectivity and links the 280C-5 to the fixed system management network.
The 280C-5 is a powerful M-Bus master which communicates with its slaves through an RF wireless port. It is able to discover slave meters, assign an M-Bus address to each meter.
