Introduction, Overview – SENA PS210W User Manual
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1. Introduction
1.1. Overview
This document is intended for the HelloDevice Pro Series, PS110W/210W.
The HelloDevice Pro Series is a Universal terminal server (or device server) that makes your legacy
serial devices manageable by an industry-standard Ethernet network. Based on open network
protocols such as TCP/IP and UDP, it gives you ultimate flexibility to your serial devices.
With the rich broadband network connectivity protocols such as DHCP and Dynamic DNS, you can
easily manage legacy serial devices over broadband Internet by using DSL or cable modem
connection. The built-in Dynamic DNS protocol of the HelloDevice Pro Series enables you to access
the serial devices with their own domain names.
The HelloDevice Pro Series also provides you with full-featured system management functionality of
system status display, firmware upgrade, remote reset and system log display by using various ways
such as telnet, SSH, serial console port or web.
You can easily configure and administrate the HelloDevice Pro Series, with the full-featured
management functions of status monitor, remote reset, error log monitor and firmware upgrade by
using Telnet and serial console port under the password protection support.
For critical applications of secure data communication, the HelloDevice Pro Series supports SSLv3 for
data encryption. In addition, IP address filtering function is provided for protecting unintentional data
streams to be transmitted to the HelloDevice Pro Series.
Typical application areas of the HelloDevice Pro Series are:
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Industrial automation
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Network management
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Retail/Point of sale
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Remote metering
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Remote display
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Building automation
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Security/Access control systems
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General data acquisition application
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Medical application
The HelloDevice Pro Series gives you ideal remote management capability of control, monitoring,
diagnosis and data gathering over RS232 serial devices.
Please note that this manual assumes user knowledge of Internetworking protocols and serial
communications.