Moxa AWK Series industrial Wi-Fi devices

Moxa has introduced a range of industrial wireless networking solutions, featuring the AWK-3252A, AWK-4252A, and AWK-1151C Series AP/bridge/clients. The updated AWK range offers 802.11ac performance, IEC 62443-4-2 SL2 certified security, and dual-band Turbo Roaming for wireless reliability and availability. The company says these features meet the current and future demands of mobile automation and IP surveillance in mining, manufacturing and many other industries.

Moxa’s latest AWK Series is designed to simplify wireless operations and the integration of mobile systems outfitted with complex sensors and cameras, while offering high performance to address the requirements for reliable and futureproof systems. With speeds of up to 400 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band and 867 Mbps on the 5 GHz band, the AWK Series enables a high-bandwidth, dynamic mobile environment to accommodate a large number of devices and support high-volume data communication. In addition, support for one-to-many network address translation (1-to-n NAT) optimises the machine integration flow by simplifying IP address assignment while avoiding IP conflicts between existing devices connecting to the OT network wirelessly.

Based on the principle of secure-by-design, the AWK-3252A, AWK-4252A, and AWK-1151C Series industrial Wi-Fi devices are certified for IEC 62443-4-2 by the IECEE. Compliance with this standard not only supports device-level security for industrial automation and control systems (IACS), but also verifies that these AWK devices are suitable for building an IEC 62443-3-3 compliant security environment. The range also supports the latest WPA3 encryption for an additional layer of WLAN security.