White Paper: Wireless Technologies for Industrial Applications

The main advantages for using a wireless solution in industrial applications are the following:

- Greater mobility and possibility to move devices and connect to smartphones and tablets freely without constraining cables.
- Eliminate expensive and maintenance heavy transmission media such as flexible cables, swivels, etc.
- Bypassing long distances and areas where cables cannot physically fit.
- Fast and easy installation and commissioning.
- High flexibility if there is a need to modify an installation.
- Increased personnel safety by not having to be physically close to a device during configuration and/or maintenance.
- Flexible Human Interface Devices (HID).
- Easy integration of devices into the network.

Industrial plants consist of multiple devices interconnected in different ways. These varied types of devices consist of the following:

- Simple data collection units (I/Os) without built-in intelligence.
- Intelligent devices such as sensors with built-in intelligence, single-loop controllers or programmable controllers.
- Supervisory systems used as Human Machine Interface (HMI), data logging and supervisory control.

All these types of devices are interconnected using different communication protocols
and media types that in some cases can be replaced by wireless technologies to
achieve the above listed advantages.

To read more, click read whitepaper below.