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# 4G NIC CARD

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## Description

4G NIC Card is a state-of-the-art communication module befitting the most advanced residential and commercial electric meter in the market today supporting wide-ranging use cases for AMI and distribution monitoring and control solutions.

NIC can easily integrate with single-phase and three-phase electricity meters and leverages any available network to form a highly resilient network for the utility.

## Features

- Onboard MCU can handle multiple communication technologies
- Support IPv4 / IPv6 network addressing
- Support pushing the data at configured intervals to the HES
- Programmable data acquisition (Push/Pull) frequency
- Support firmware (FOTA) degradation
- Dedicated boost regulator enable/disable pin controlled by meter boardTC
- PIP test setup on EC200U

## Applications

- Smart Meters

## Block Diagram

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## 12 Pin Header Connector

Pin No. | Pin Names | Input/Output to NIC | Remarks
--- | --- | --- | ---
1 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
2 | VCC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
3 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
4 | RESET |  |
5 | UART_TX | OUTPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
6 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
7 | UART_RX | OUTPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
8 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
9 | GND |  |
10 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.
11 | POWER KEY | INPUT |
12 | NC | INPUT | TTL, Max 3.3 V.