Entryway Sensor Network Architecture and Requirements

VergeSense entryway sensors use machine learning to anonymously monitor and analyze ingress and egress occupancy of spaces, floors, and buildings in real time. The entryway sensors use IEEE 802.3af PoE protocol over a single ethernet cable to provide the sensor with both power and data. PoE makes the deployment of sensors easy and ensures the most stable and reliable data connectivity. Anonymized occupancy data securely travel outbound across your network to the VergeSense Cloud.

Data Flow

• Sensors encrypt occupancy data (TLS 1.2) and send it directly to the VergeSense Cloud via the customer’s wired network.

Network Requirements

• Sensors are DHCP clients by default.

• Sensors initiate communication with the following DNS endpoints, and may receive response traffic (eg. updates, etc). Connections are never initiated inbound from the Cloud to your internal network.

Network Connectivity Safelist

In order to provide connectivity to the VergeSense cloud platform, and to provide connectivity to network resources for timestamps and serviceability, the following destinations, protocols, and ports should be opened through any corporate firewall tools.

Safelist changes between firmware versions

The entryway sensors' operating system was re-factored during the transition from Fw4.7 to Fw5.0 resulting in a new data model being transmitted to the IoT Platform. In order to continue supporting EN-1 sensors with either Fw4.x or Fw5.x installed, a new IoT ingestion pipeline was developed and this required a new URL in the safelist. In the likelihood that EN-1 sensors deployed within a customer site have a mixture of Fw4.x and Fw5.x, it is highly recommended that both IoT Service URLs are implemented in a firewall safelist.

Cabling and Power Requirements

• Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a

• Sensors are PoE class 0 (802.3af)

• Average consumption ~4 Watts

• Peak consumption <8 Watts

Security

• Raw data is captured and processed onboard

  the sensor

• Anonymous JSON-format occupancy data

• All VergeSense data is secure and encrypted by TLS 1.2

Updated May 18, 2023 20:39