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Wireless Industrial Communications

05/17/2009 11:58 PM

Hello Friends,

I'm having an application wherein we have measure level in a isolated tank inside the plant. The distance of that tank is around 400 meters from the control room. We don't want to lay the wire for a single transmitter.

What are the ways with which we can measure the process parameter. Scan time is not critical for us.Therefore, we can go battery powered transmitters which can give us values after certain period of time.

But here my concern is if the wireless communication is reliable considering the industrial environment composed of so many random sources of noise.

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Sushant Chanana (sushant.chanana@sedl.in)

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Re: Wireless industrial communication

05/18/2009 1:03 AM

I am not a big fan of wireless communications inside a plant. That being said, it should work just fine. As long as the process is not critical.

What you have to remember is that the antenna is (should be) mounted on the tank/building, so it shouldn't be affected by motors... very much. If you have a good shielded cable, going to the radio (which should be in a shielded cabinet), then chances are pretty good that it will work just fine.

One other thing you must consider is the protocol. If is deterministic (makes sure the message/data got there intact), it will either retry, or notify the software that the communications have failed. As long as it is not critical, or your operations have enough time to react it's fine.

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