Control over WirelessHART network

Author

Song Han ; Xiuming Zhu ; Mok, Aloysius K. ; Nixon, Mark ; Blevins, Terry ; Deji Chen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Scien ce, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

7-10 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

2114

Lastpage

2119

Abstract

It has been observed that the history of industrial process control development is also a history of reducing the number of wires necessary for effecting the control. Control over wireless is the end of this evolution. Wireless control faces a lot of challenges such as security, reliability, feedback latency, battery longevity, etc. In this paper we report some experience with implementing control over wireless. The platform we use is the WirelessHART mesh network, the first international industrial wireless control standard. We describe a full implementation of the standard and study the issues and solutions in its application. Our data suggest that WirelessHART technology is up to the challenge of wireless control.

Keywords

telecommunication control; wireless mesh networks; industrial process control development; industrial wireless control standard; wireless HART mesh network; Actuators; Communication system security; Logic gates; Reliability; Sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2010 - 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Glendale, AZ

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5225-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2010.5675278

Filename

5675278