Communication Gateways

Pick a gateway

Which gateway reads your sensors, and how it reaches the cloud.

Every Neo sensor talks BLE. What differs between gateways is the backhaul — how the gateway gets those readings to iMatrix Cloud. If you have Wi-Fi at the site, use a Wi-Fi gateway. If you don't, use a cellular gateway that carries its own connection.

Gateway	Reads Neo sensors?	Backhaul to cloud	Best for
Micro Gateway	Yes — BLE, up to ~50 sensors	Wi-Fi only (2.4 / 5 GHz). No cellular radio.	Single sites with existing Wi-Fi — restaurants, pharmacies, labs, small plant rooms.
Series-1 Wi-Fi Mesh	Yes — BLE + iMatrix Massive Mesh, hundreds of sensors	Wi-Fi only (802.11 b/g/n). No cellular radio.	Warehouses, campuses, and multi-building sites with Wi-Fi coverage.
FC-101S-PRO	Yes — BLE 5.4 sensor scanning	Cellular (LTE) built in, via EdgeUplink eSIM. Carries its own connection.	Sites and assets with no Wi-Fi — rooftops, yards, remote plant, trailers and containers. Solar powered, IP68.
FC-501 FleetConnect Edge	Yes — BLE sensor bridging	Cellular (LTE) built in, optional Starlink.	Vehicles, mobile plant, and industrial installations that also need CAN bus and GNSS.
EdgeUplink 4G hotspot / router	No — these have no BLE radio	Cellular uplink that creates local Wi-Fi for a Micro Gateway or Series-1 to use.	Adding connectivity to a Wi-Fi gateway at a site with no network of its own.

The distinction that trips people up: the Micro Gateway and Series-1 are Wi-Fi gateways — they read Neo sensors over BLE but have no cellular radio of their own. When you see "cellular" on our environmental pages it means one of two things: either a single-box cellular gateway (FC-101S-PRO, FC-501) that reads BLE and carries its own LTE connection, or a 4G hotspot/router that supplies Wi-Fi for one of the Wi-Fi gateways to sit on. Both get you to the cloud without site Wi-Fi; only the first is one device.

Universal Wi-Fi Gateways

For climate monitoring in cold environments.

Indoor facilities with Wi-Fi coverage. Simple to deploy, scale-as-you-go.

Micro Gateway USB Dongle

802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 5.2. Compact USB form factor. Up to 50 sensors per gateway.

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Series-1 WiFi Mesh Gateway

Mesh topology for hundreds of sensors. Warehouses, campuses, and multi-site operations.

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Cellular BLE Gateways

One box: reads Neo sensors, carries its own LTE.

These are the gateways to use when a site has no usable Wi-Fi. Both scan iMatrix Neo sensors over Bluetooth and backhaul the readings to iMatrix Cloud on their own cellular connection.