Industrial LoRaWAN® IO Controller

Pumps, motor starters, solenoid valves, lighting feeders, sirens, blowers and DG changeover panels, through its two 16 A relays. Motors are switched through their starter or contactor, so the relay carries the coil current, not the motor current. Each relay can be driven by a downlink command or by a schedule, threshold or cyclic rule running on the controller.

Yes. The MacSet LX1 is a standard LoRaWAN® v1.0.4 device using OTAA, and joins public and private network servers including ChirpStack, The Things Stack, Orbiwise, Netmore and any private LNS with an MQTT broker. Macnman publishes the payload decoder, so uplinks arrive as readable relay states, input readings and Modbus registers.

A Class A device only listens for a short window after it transmits, so a command can wait until the next uplink. The MacSet LX1 ships as Class A and can be set to Class C in the Maya app, where it listens continuously and a downlink reaches the relay at once. Class C needs a permanent supply, which the mains or DC powered LX1 has.

Yes. Schedule, trigger and cyclic rules run inside the controller, so a pump still starts on low level and lights still follow their timetable when the gateway or the internet is down. The MacTalk variant goes further and links Macnman devices directly, with no gateway at all.

One RS485 port acting as a Modbus RTU master at 1,200 to 115,200 baud, reading holding and input registers and writing single or multiple registers on several slaves; two 4–20 mA and two 0–10 V analog inputs with 12-bit resolution; and two digital inputs with state-change detection. The analog and digital channels share switchable terminals.

Yes. Wire a 4–20 mA or Modbus level sensor to an input and set a trigger rule: the pump relay closes below the low level and opens above the high level, without a dashboard in the loop. With the MacTalk variant, a Macnman level sensor at the tank can command the controller at the pump directly, even with no gateway on site.

It switches the starter: the relay drives the contactor or starter coil, and the starter carries the motor current. The relays are rated 16 A, so use a contactor sized for the motor rather than switching the load through the relay directly. Run and trip feedback can come back on the digital inputs.

A GSM controller needs a SIM and mobile coverage at every pump. A LoRaWAN® controller needs neither: one gateway covers pumps, tanks and valves kilometres apart, the rules run on the controller when coverage drops, and the data lands on your own server or broker. GSM still suits a single pump with no gateway nearby.

From the Maya Android app over Bluetooth on site: network keys, relay rules, Modbus registers, thresholds and reporting intervals, with no code. After that, settings are changed by downlink commands on dedicated FPorts, and signed firmware updates arrive over the air.

IN865 for India, plus RU864, EU868, US915 and AU915 to order. The radio is WPC compliant and the hardware is RoHS conformant. The controller is designed and manufactured in Pune.

The radio transmits at 23 dBm with −137 dBm sensitivity. In Macnman field tests that gives around 2 km across built-up industrial sites and up to 8 km with line of sight; antenna height, band and terrain decide the figure on your site.

No. The LoRa Alliance relay specification describes a battery device that extends network coverage to other end nodes. The MacSet LX1 is a relay-output controller: it switches electrical loads from relays. If you were looking for a range extender, a second gateway is the usual answer on a LoRaWAN® network.

The LX1 has two 16 A relays with two 4–20 mA, two 0–10 V and two digital inputs. The LX2 has eight 16 A relays with eight of each input, for panels that switch many loads. Both share the RS485 Modbus port, the three automation modes, the Maya app and the same enclosure family.

The controller, a mounting clip, mounting screws, the user manual and the warranty card; an IP68 cable extender and a power adapter are optional. The glass-filled nylon enclosure measures 142 × 80 × 32 mm, weighs about 175 g and mounts on a wall or a pole.