Plantgate: your system, wherever you are

Forget travels for assistance: remote access comes with the Plantgate.

Plantgate is a CLIMASET s.r.l. service for a fast and safe connection to pCOWeb webservers and boss supervisors, without the need of having a static IP.

What Plantgate offers

With the Plantgate your system becomes a website surfable with every browser or reachable with our handy APP: you can see the devices of your system remotely, anywhere in the world, like you were at your home or in your office. The Plantgate graphics is intuitive, easy to use and works well also as remote professional assistance.

Plantgate offers also the geolocation: if you manage one or more system around the world, you can see and reach them through an interactive map with zoom, share it map by generating an external URL and understand intuitively which system is offline or not reachable.

Connection modes

Connection between the system and Plantgate could be made in two different ways, with a classical connection or with and encrypted VPN connection.

In both ways user can reach devices remotely, directly on the Plantgate website or by using the APP for mobile devices.

Classical connection (no VPN)

This modality is made by interfacing the supervisors and pCOWebs to the Plantgate server, passing through the customer router (equipped with a firewall).

This connection modality needs some additional configurations, both on the customer router and on supervisors/pCOWebs, in order to function properly.

VPN connection

A new available modality is the VPN connection, an encrypted tunnel between the devices of your system and the Plantgate cloud, that does not require any configuration on customer router.

With the VPN connection you can overcome security limitations imposed by system management: you just have to connect your boss supervisor, or your pCOWeb with RUT100, to a cabled internet connection and they will interface with Plantgate servers.

Furthermore, with the boss micro 4G and a simple commercial SIM (not provided), you can bring togheter the VPN connection potentials with the flexibility of the mobile network, without the need of having a cabled internet connection.

On the gallery below there are some setup examples:

Three pCO CAREL boards communicate with a boss mini though the BMS network. The user manage the pCO boards thanks to the Plantgate VPN encrypted connection, using the APP. The connection goes through the customer router. — VPN connection

VPN connection with boss mini and 4G USB modem (SIM not supplied)

Three pCO boards communicate with a boss micro 4G though the BMS network. The user managea the pCO boards with an APP, thanks to the Plantgate VPN encrypted connection. — VPN connection with boss micro and SIM 4G

A pCOWeb SE board is connected to the Plantgate cloud by using a RUT100, the connection goes through the customer router and it is encrypted. The user can manage the pCOWeb with the Plantgate APP. — VPN connection with pCOWEB SE and cabled network

Security

Plantgate offers you better security, because:

it tells you if you system is reachable (alive signal management),
sends to you and to the other users of the systems alarm and/or report e-mails coming from that system,
it allows you to update the software of the pCOWeb and boss that you manage,
uses the HTTPS protocol and, thanks to the VPN connection, allows for bringing the remote assistance even where the cabled network connection is not available or is limited.

Pyramidal structure

The Plantgate service has a pyramidal structure, there are multiple profiles different permissions:

Reseller/OEM: custumer of CLIMASET s.r.l.,
Installer: customer of the reseller/OEM,
End user: owner of the system.

With the Plantgate there is also the possibility to have a personalized URL and logo for each user (reseller/OEM, Installer, end user).

Applications

Plantgate brings remote supervision to every type of system, including those already installed and currently functioning (retrofitting).

Here are some application examples for Plantgate, by clicking on one of the links below you will see a brief PDF presentation relative to the given example: