Communications
In order to provide communication services to applications and devices, OpenGate provides features like:
- Wireless Communications: GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The evolution of the platform is planned for supporting ZigBee and WiMax as next wireless communication channels.
- Bandwidth optimizations: OpenGate uses a standard binary protocol for codifying the information, that minimizes the quantity of data that OpenGate puts into the wireless channels. Other communication protocols like Web Services (XML/HTTP), CORBA, or RMI make use of high bandwidth, for their big headers and redundant information. This is an important subject in pay per traffic networks.
- Backup communication channels: In the event that the main communication channels were not available (GSM/GPRS/UMTS), OpenGate has the possibility to continue sending information through other channels like SMS or trunking.
- Language unification: OpenGate allows an application to talk in the same language with many different devices, facilitating the implementation of solutions.
- Application multiplexing: OpenGate allows that more than one application communicates with a single device at the same time, therefore reducing bandwidth use and connections number.
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