ComFi I2000 Industrial 4G Router

ComFi I2000 is an industrial grade, compact, ruggedized cellular enabled 4G wireless router for high speed wireless communication of machines to machines (M2M) in modern era. It allows local and remote access to the connected machines virtually anywhere. It is available with flexible choice of cellular modem, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and Serial interconnectivity options. Furthermore, it is loaded with factory product firmware for general applications and it can alternatively support open source OpenWRT by your own custom built and a product development for a project.

six characteristics

1. High Speed 4G LTE: The Engine of Real-Time Data
At the heart of every effective industrial operation is speed. The ability to transfer large volumes of data quickly is crucial for real-time monitoring, automation, and decision-making. Our Industrial grade wireless 4G router is equipped with High Speed 4G LTE technology, providing the bandwidth necessary to support a multitude of data-intensive applications. Whether it’s streaming high-definition video from security cameras, transmitting sensor data from production line machinery, or enabling VoIP communications for field personnel, this router ensures that data flows swiftly and without bottleneck. This high-speed capability minimizes latency, allowing for near-instantaneous responses that are critical for automated processes and remote control systems.
2. Hardware Watchdog: Ensuring Unwavering Reliability
In an industrial setting, a network failure can lead to costly downtime, production halts, or even safety hazards. To prevent this, our router features a built-in Hardware Watchdog. This is an independent, self-monitoring system that acts as a guardian for the device’s health. It continuously checks the router’s operational status. If it detects a software freeze, lock-up, or any other malfunction, the watchdog automatically reboots the system. This “self-healing” capability ensures that the router recovers from unexpected errors without any human intervention, maximizing network uptime and providing peace of mind that the connection will always be available when it’s needed most.
3. Industrial Environment -20°C ~ 70°C: Built for the Extremes
Industrial environments are notoriously harsh. Routers are often deployed in locations without climate control, such as outdoor cabinets, factory floors, or remote power stations, where they are exposed to extreme temperatures. A standard consumer router would quickly fail under such conditions. Our Industrial grade wireless 4G router is specifically engineered to operate flawlessly within a wide Industrial Environment temperature range of -20°C ~ 70°C. This rugged design ensures stable and reliable performance whether it’s subjected to the freezing cold of a winter morning or the intense heat generated by heavy machinery, making it a truly versatile solution for any deployment scenario.
4. Anti-interference with Quality Antenna: Maintaining a Clear Signal
Industrial sites are often filled with sources of electromagnetic interference (EMI) from motors, variable frequency drives, and other heavy equipment. This “electronic noise” can severely disrupt wireless signals, leading to poor connectivity and data loss. To combat this, our router is designed for Anti-interference and utilizes a Quality Antenna. The high-gain, industrial-grade antenna is engineered to filter out noise and lock onto the strongest possible 4G signal. This ensures a stable, high-fidelity connection even in the most electrically noisy environments, guaranteeing that critical data is transmitted and received accurately.
5. Multiple Users, Multiple Devices: The Central Hub for Connectivity
A modern industrial site is a complex ecosystem of connected devices. A single router is often required to serve dozens, if not hundreds, of different endpoints simultaneously. Our router excels in this area, providing robust support for Multiple Users and Multiple Devices. It can efficiently manage connections for a wide array of equipment, including PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers), HMIs (Human Machine Interfaces), SCADA systems, IP cameras, sensors, and even the personal devices of on-site staff. With advanced networking features like DHCP, NAT, and a powerful firewall, it acts as a secure and efficient central hub, ensuring all connected devices can communicate reliably without compromising performance or security.
6. Cloud Platform Remote Management: Control from Anywhere
Managing network infrastructure across multiple, geographically dispersed sites can be a logistical nightmare. To simplify this, our Industrial grade wireless 4G router is fully integrated with a comprehensive Cloud Platform for Remote Management. This powerful platform allows administrators to monitor the status of every router in their fleet from a single, centralized dashboard. From anywhere in the world, you can view signal strength, data usage, and system health. More importantly, you can perform remote configuration updates, reboot devices, diagnose issues, and push firmware upgrades without ever needing to dispatch a technician to the site. This dramatically reduces operational costs, improves response times, and simplifies the management of large-scale industrial networks.

Connection With 4G Cellular, Ethernet, WiFi

1. High-speed 4G cellular network: The aorta of industrial connections
The core competitiveness of ComFi I2000 lies in its powerful 4G cellular network access capability. This Industrial grade wireless 4G router is equipped with a high-performance industrial-grade 4G cellular modem, supporting the frequency bands of major global operators. It can easily access the high-speed LTE network and achieve high-speed data transmission of 100 megabits for downlink and tens of megabits for uplink. This means that whether in remote mining areas, on mobile vehicles, or in outdoor facilities where wiring is difficult, as long as the operator’s signal covers, ComFi I2000 can provide devices with a stable broadband connection like fiber optics.
Its working principle is highly efficient: the 4G antenna externally connected to the device (whether it is a standard whip antenna or a flexible spring magnetic antenna) is responsible for receiving the wireless signals transmitted by the operator’s base station. The built-in modem demodulates the captured radio frequency signal into digital data. Subsequently, the powerful processing core of this Industrial grade wireless 4G router comes into play. It can intelligently convert cellular network data and, through its built-in switching function, distribute it into a standard Ethernet network for shared access by multiple wired devices. Alternatively, through the built-in Wi-Fi module, the 4G signal can be converted into a Wi-Fi hotspot to provide network access for mobile terminals, tablets or other wireless devices. This capability of “4G to Ethernet” and “4G to Wi-Fi” makes it a powerful network hub, greatly expanding its application scenarios.
What’s more worth mentioning is that the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router is equipped with the advanced “Ethernet/4G Smart Switching Technology”. In industrial sites, network stability is of vital importance. This technology enables users to connect to both a wired WAN (such as ADSL or fiber) and a 4G network simultaneously. The system will monitor the health status and latency of the two links in real time. Once the primary link (such as a wired WAN) is interrupted or its quality declines, the device can automatically and seamlessly switch to the backup 4G network within milliseconds to ensure that business continuity is not affected. When the main link is restored, it can automatically switch back, optimizing the bandwidth cost. This dual-link intelligent backup function is an indispensable guarantee for applications such as financial transactions and online monitoring that have zero tolerance for network interruption, and it also fully demonstrates the professionalism and reliability of this Industrial grade wireless 4G router.
2. Flexible Ethernet and serial port: An inclusive industrial interface
In addition to advanced wireless capabilities, ComFi I2000, as a comprehensive Industrial grade wireless 4G router, also attaches great importance to compatibility with traditional industrial equipment. It is equipped with multiple high-speed Ethernet ports, supporting an adaptive rate of 10/100Mbps, and can be easily connected to various Ethernet devices such as PLCS (Programmable Logic Controllers), Hmis (Human-Machine Interfaces), industrial cameras, and switches. These ports can not only serve as LAN ports to provide networks for downstream devices, but also be configured as WAN ports to achieve multi-WAN access or backup with the aforementioned 4G network.
More crucially, the ComFi I2000 retains the serial interfaces (such as RS232 or RS485) that are still widely used in the industrial field. Many old industrial devices, instruments and sensors only have serial communication capabilities. This Industrial grade wireless 4G router, through its built-in serial server function, is capable of transparently encapsulating serial data into TCP/IP data packets and remotely transmitting them to data centers or cloud platforms via 4G or Ethernet networks. This “serial port networking” function greatly protects the existing equipment investment of users, realizes the seamless connection between traditional Industrial equipment and modern Internet of Things platforms, and is an important manifestation of ComFi I2000 as a mature Industrial grade wireless 4G router.
3. Convenient Wi-Fi coverage: Flexible deployment of wireless extension
The addition of Wi-Fi functionality makes the application scenarios of the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router more three-dimensional. It can serve as an industrial-grade Wi-Fi access point, providing stable wireless network coverage for areas such as workshops, warehouses, and stores, facilitating staff to use handheld terminals and tablet computers for mobile office work, equipment inspection, and data collection. Meanwhile, it can also serve as a Wi-Fi client, connect to the existing wireless network, and then share the network via 4G or wired means to achieve the network bridging function. This flexible Wi-Fi working mode enables this Industrial grade wireless 4G router to play more roles in the network topology and adapt to the complex and changeable field deployment requirements.

Ruggedized Design for 24/7 Stable Operation

Unlike the consumer-grade routers on the market that use plastic casings, the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router adopts a high-strength metal casing. This layer of “armor” can not only effectively resist physical shock, compression and vibration, adapt to bumpy environments such as factory workshops and vehicles, but also has excellent heat dissipation performance. Metal materials can quickly dissipate the heat generated by core components such as the internal CPU, ensuring that the device will not experience frequency reduction or downtime due to overheating during long-term high-load operation.

Meanwhile, this Industrial grade wireless 4G router supports wide temperature range operation and can usually work stably within the extreme temperature range of -30 ° C to +70 ° C. Whether it is the scorching summer outdoors or the freezing winter in the wild, it can maintain normal operation and ensure the smooth operation of the data link. This wide-temperature design is the key dividing line that distinguishes Industrial grade wireless 4G routers from ordinary commercial routers.

Power grids in industrial environments are often unstable. Surge voltages caused by lightning strikes or grid fluctuations can easily destroy sophisticated electronic equipment. The ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router is designed with professional lightning and surge protection circuits (usually reaching level 4 or higher standards) on both its WAN/LAN interface and power interface, which can effectively absorb and discharge instantaneous high voltage. Protecting the internal core circuit from damage has significantly enhanced the survival rate of the equipment in harsh power grid environments.

Watchdog Anti-freeze Protection

1. Watchdog anti-freeze and automatic recovery mechanism
In industrial sites, equipment often operates non-stop for 7×24 hours. Any minor software anomaly can lead to system crashes or network disruptions, causing huge losses. ComFi I2000 is equipped with a multi-level hardware and software watchdog mechanism. This “anti-freeze protection” system will act like a loyal guard, monitoring key indicators such as CPU load, memory status, and network connection in real time. Once it detects that the system is unresponsive or there is an abnormality in the network, the watchdog program will immediately trigger the automatic restart process, allowing the device to return to normal operation in the shortest possible time. This “self-healing” ability enables this Industrial grade wireless 4G router to have extremely high availability, greatly reducing the labor cost and response time of on-site maintenance.
2. Seamless multi-network switching and automatic network recovery
Combined with the Ethernet/4G intelligent switching mentioned earlier, the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router also features a more comprehensive “automatic network recovery technology”. It can not only switch the primary and backup links, but also be optimized within the 4G network. When the signal of the currently connected base station deteriorates, it will automatically search and register to a nearby base station with a stronger signal. In the event of a complete loss of 4G signal, it will continuously attempt to redial the connection. This all-round network self-recovery capability ensures the maximum availability of the data transmission channel, truly fulfilling the promise of “always online”, which is also the core value of a professional Industrial grade wireless 4G router.
3. Flexible firmware and secondary development platform
The ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router offers great flexibility at the software level. It comes pre-installed with a fully functional, stable and reliable official firmware from the factory, which can meet the needs of the vast majority of general M2M applications. For users or project developers with special customization requirements, it also provides strong open support. Users can flash the open-source OpenWRT firmware by themselves and conduct in-depth customization and secondary development based on it. This means that users can, based on project requirements, add specific protocols, develop exclusive management interfaces, integrate unique security policies, and turn this Industrial grade wireless 4G router into a dedicated network device that fully conforms to their own business logic. This open ecosystem makes ComFi I2000 not only a connection tool, but also an extensible industrial Internet of Things application development platform.

High Speed Internet Access Experience

For industrial applications, the stability of network connections is of vital importance. One of the core advantages of the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router is its outstanding high-speed Internet access experience, which benefits from its intelligent and seamless switching between 4G, 3G and WAN networks to ensure the continuous online operation of services.

This Industrial grade wireless 4G router is equipped with advanced link detection and intelligent handover algorithms. It will monitor in real time the signal quality, latency and connection status of 4G, 3G cellular networks and wired Wans. When the quality of the main link (such as a high-speed 4G network) declines due to signal fluctuations or congestion, the system will automatically assess it in milliseconds and switch to a suboptimal link (such as a more stable 3G or wired WAN). The entire process is completely transparent to upper-layer applications, ensuring that data transmission is not interrupted. This intelligent switching capability endows this Industrial grade wireless 4G router with strong network resilience.

This feature brings significant value to users. First of all, it maximizes network availability. When the fixed broadband WAN serves as the main channel, the 4G network acts as a hot backup. Once the WAN is interrupted, the Industrial grade wireless 4G router can take over immediately to ensure the continuity of critical services such as remote device control, video surveillance and data collection. Secondly, it optimizes the connection performance. In areas with unstable 4G signal coverage, such as mobile vehicles or remote factory areas, the Industrial grade wireless 4G router can automatically select the optimal network between 4G and 3G, balance speed and stability, and provide a smooth access experience. Finally, it offers flexible deployment options. Users can freely combine the use of wired and wireless networks according to the on-site conditions, and the intelligent switching function of the Industrial grade wireless 4G router always ensures the best connection effect.

Two Antenna Access Methods

In terms of wireless signal reception, this Industrial grade wireless 4G router provides two antenna access methods to adapt to different scenarios. One type is the standard whip antenna, which has stable gain and is suitable for fixed installation in situations with good signal conditions. Another type is the spring magnetic attraction antenna. Its soft spring cable can effectively buffer vibrations, and the magnetic attraction base can be conveniently attached to metal cabinets or vehicle bodies to quickly find the best signal receiving position. This humanized design makes this Industrial grade wireless 4G router more flexible and convenient to deploy, ensuring the breadth and intensity of wireless coverage.

High Performance CpU

A powerful “heart” is the source of stable performance. The ComFi I2000 is equipped with an enterprise-level 32-bit MIPS architecture network processor. This high-performance CPU provides powerful data processing capabilities and forwarding performance for this Industrial grade wireless 4G router, enabling it to easily handle high-load tasks such as multi-user concurrency, high-traffic data transmission, and complex VPN encryption. Its optimized hardware architecture ensures low network latency and stable data packet forwarding, providing a solid guarantee for industrial control applications with high real-time requirements. Choosing a reliable industrial-grade CPU is a wise move to build a top-of-the-line Industrial grade wireless 4G router.

Multiple Applicable Scenarios

With its outstanding comprehensive performance, the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router has permeated multiple key fields of the national economy and has become a backbone force driving the digital transformation of all industries.

1. Smart Retail and self-service
In scenarios such as smart express lockers, self-service vending machines, smart charging piles, and advertising machines, the devices are usually scattered throughout the city and need to interact with the background system in real time for transaction data, inventory information, and device status. ComFi I2000, as a reliable Industrial grade wireless 4G router, provides a stable data return channel for these devices. Its sturdy design can adapt to the outdoor environment of sun exposure and rain, while the watchdog and automatic recovery functions ensure the uninterrupted transaction process, which is the key to the success of the unmanned business model.
2. Industrial Automation and Remote Monitoring
In industrial sites such as factories, oil fields, mines, and water conservancy DAMS, it is necessary to conduct remote data collection and monitoring of PLCS, SCADA systems, environmental sensors, high-definition cameras, etc. The ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router transmits data from field devices securely and in real time to the central control room via its 4G network. Its wide temperature range, shock resistance and anti-electromagnetic interference features enable it to operate stably in harsh industrial environments, helping engineers achieve remote diagnosis, remote control and predictive maintenance, significantly enhancing production efficiency and management level.
3. Smart Transportation and Logistics
In applications such as intelligent bus stop signs, on-board monitoring, fleet management, and electronic fences, network connections need to meet the dual challenges of mobility and high reliability. The ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router, with its multi-network seamless switching capability, ensures that the vehicle’s network connection is not interrupted during high-speed movement. Its sturdy metal casing and wide-temperature operation capability also enable it to perfectly adapt to the vibration and temperature changes in the on-board environment, providing a solid network guarantee for intelligent transportation systems.
4. Smart Cities and Security
In municipal facilities such as urban security surveillance, smart lamp posts, environmental monitoring points, and smart trash cans, there are numerous deployment points, and wiring is often difficult. The ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router provides a fast and economical networking solution for these facilities with its plug-and-play convenience and powerful wireless coverage capability. It not only transmits video streams and sensor data, but also provides public network services for citizens via Wi-Fi, becoming an important node in building the neural network of smart cities.

The ComFi I2000 is by no means an ordinary network connection device. It is a flagship Industrial grade wireless 4G router integrating high-speed 4G access, flexible interface expansion, robust industrial design, intelligent operation and maintenance guarantee, and an open development platform. It has a profound understanding of the strict connection requirements of industrial Internet of Things applications and responds to each one with outstanding performance and reliability.

In terms of core connection capabilities, it offers an all-round integration of 4G, Ethernet, Wi-Fi and serial ports, and ensures the high availability of the network through intelligent switching technology. From the perspective of hardware design, its metal casing, wide-temperature operation, lightning protection and professional antenna jointly forge a “steel and iron skeleton” that is not afraid of harsh environments. From the perspective of software intelligence, watchdog protection, automatic network recovery, and open OpenWRT support have endowed it with an “unattended, self-evolving” intelligent soul.

In numerous fields such as Industrial automation, remote monitoring, smart energy, smart cities, and smart retail, the ComFi I2000 Industrial grade wireless 4G router is helping users overcome deployment difficulties and reduce operation and maintenance costs with its outstanding performance of “stability, high speed and reliability”. Accelerate business innovation. Compared with other similar products, ComFi I2000 is more focused on industrial scenarios that require rapid deployment, long-term stable operation and the ability to adapt to complex environments. It is not merely a network access point, but also a reliable and high-return infrastructure investment in an enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Choosing ComFi I2000 means choosing a powerful connection engine that can safeguard your critical business and drive future development. It is undoubtedly one of the most competitive Industrial grade wireless 4G routers on the market today.