Managing a Digi Wi-SUN network involves configuring, monitoring, securing, and maintaining communication between the devices that form it. These devices are:

  • Digi XBee Hive for Wi-SUN: Serves as the Wi-SUN FAN (Field Area Network) border router, managing device onboarding, routing, and connectivity to external IP networks.

  • Digi XBee for Wi-SUN nodes: Form the mesh network, communicating with each other and the border router using the Wi-SUN FAN specification.

Network diagram

Through Digi’s tools and processes, you can form, manage, and optimize your Wi-SUN network to meet the needs of real-world IoT applications from initial setup to ongoing maintenance and diagnostics.

In this chapter you will learn how to:

While Digi Wi-SUN devices are interoperable with other Wi-SUN FAN-certified products, this section focuses on Digi devices and management tools. For more information on the solution, see Learn how the solution works.