Robustel Smart Roaming v3: Advanced Cellular Connectivity Resilience

Introduction

Robustel's Smart Roaming v3 is an advanced software feature designed to ensure ultimate cellular connectivity resilience for your IoT deployments. Building upon Robustel's expertise in industrial cellular communication, v3 elevates network selection and failover capabilities to new heights. It intelligently monitors network conditions and proactively switches between available cellular networks to maintain the most stable and performant connection possible.

Smart Roaming v3 is engineered for mission-critical applications where uninterrupted connectivity is paramount. It provides a sophisticated suite of tools for automated network health checks, manual network control, and comprehensive diagnostics, including support for 5G NSA networks. With enhanced cloud and SMS control, plus automated site survey capabilities, Smart Roaming v3 simplifies the management of dynamic cellular environments, reduces downtime, and optimizes network performance for your routers.

Features & Benefits

Core Features:

• Full network scan for available networks: Provides a live scan for available networks on startup, ensuring the router has a complete picture of the local cellular environment.
• Automatically change to a 'working' network: Acts as the primary resilience feature of Smart Roaming, automatically switching to a functional network if issues arise.
• Timestamped Network change log: Offers a very useful history of network changes, crucial for diagnostics and understanding connectivity patterns.
• Healthcheck by ping target: Monitors mobile data connectivity and changes the network if a predefined ping target fails.
• Healthcheck by signal strength: Proactively changes the network if the current signal strength drops below a configured threshold.
• Healthcheck by Ping round trip time: Switches networks if ping round trip times become too high, indicating poor network performance.
• Select any network manually: Allows for manual intervention to select a specific network in particular scenarios or for testing purposes.
• Failsafe when manually selecting Networks: If a manually selected network fails to register, the system automatically reverts to "Automatic" mode to ensure connectivity.
• Live network status view: Provides at-a-glance diagnostics of the current network status.
• Run a Speedtest on current network: Enables users to ascertain the 'instantaneous' performance of the currently connected network.
• 5G NSA Supported: Includes support for 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) networks, making it compatible with 5G routers.
• Control Smart Roaming fully from Cloud platform: Allows for powerful, lightweight remote control and configuration of Smart Roaming features via RCMS.
• Perform a fully automated site survey at boot time: Conducts a zero-effort site survey upon router startup, with results automatically uploaded for analysis.
• Perform scheduled, automated site survey: Enables zero-effort site surveys to be conducted according to a predefined time schedule.
• Perform a fully automated manual site survey: Allows for on-demand, zero-effort site surveys to be triggered manually as needed.

Optional Features:

• Forget last known good network: Prevents the router from "sticking" to a previously good network that may no longer be optimal.
• Force a rescan of visible networks manually: Allows users to get the latest RF status of surrounding networks on demand.
• Delete forbidden networks: Provides the ability to delete Forbidden PLMNs (FPLMN) stored on the SIM card.
• Nominate 'preferred' networks: Enables users to tell the router which networks to prioritize when in Automatic mode.
• Control Smart Roaming fully by SMS: Offers extensive control over Smart Roaming features via SMS commands, crucial if the primary data connection fails.