As commercial and residential networks rapidly go the wireless route, will industrial networks soon follow? This fourth edition discusses the increasingly popular wireless application Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and provides a clear, unbiased view of the emerging wireless communications market. Author Dick Caro explores wireless communications from the factory and process automation viewpoint to help you make clear decisions on the timing and strategy for implementing wireless networks for automation projects. According to Caro, residential networks are easily justified using today's inexpensive wireless components to avoid costly or unsightly wire installations. However, industrial networks face privacy and security concerns and the potential for signal loss in plant environments. Industrial networks must have secure communications that never fails. The cost of industrial wiring is so high, that wireless can usually be justified. This fourth edition includes a general update of events that have occurred since the previous edition. Most importantly, it includes an extensive analysis of new wireless technology intended for process control, such as ISA100 Wireless (ISA100.11a), WirelessHART, WIA-PA, and Wi-Fi, including IEEE 802.11n and 802.11ac.

Wireless Networks for Industrial Automation

Dick Caro

International Society of Automation

Are you trying to make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market today? Whether you're a novice industrial network user or someone who simply needs to brush up on the technology, Automation Network Selection will help you better understand and select the "right" network for a given application. 
Industry expert Dick Caro walks you through the various industrial networks (e.g., sensor, fieldbus, control, safety buses, and so on) and then gives you a perspective on the typical applications for industrial automation network technology. The emphasis is on the intended application for each network, rather than on the network protocol that is more typically discussed in most textbooks. 
With many projects requiring more than one network application, finding the network that best fits your needs is no easy task. This book will help get you started on the right path.

Automation Network Selection

Computers & Technology

Certification

ISA: The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

Are you trying to make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market today? Whether you're a novice industrial network user or someone who simply needs to brush up on the technology, Automation Network Selection will help you better understand and select the "right" network for a given application. Automation networks have changed from the initial publication in 2003. This second edition has been updated with those changes. Some promised network standards have become reality and some new standards have begun. In this time period, wireless networks have proliferated, and two standards are emerging: WirelessHART and ISA100.11a. Ethernet has continued its assault on all of the wired networks and has become dominant at the base network layers, as well as with several

Automation Network Selection: A Reference Manual, 2nd Edition

Networking & Cloud Computing

Are you trying to make sense of all the different industrial automation networks on the market today? Whether you're a novice industrial network user or someone who simply needs to brush up on the technology, Automation Network Selection will help you better understand and select the "right" network for a given application.Automation networks have changed from the initial publication in 2003. This second edition has been updated with those changes. Some promised network standards have become reality and some new standards have begun. In this time period, wireless networks have proliferated, and two standards are emerging: WirelessHART and ISA100.11a. Ethernet has continued its assault on all of the wired networks and has become dominant at the base network layers, as well as with several Application/User layers. Even wireless now carries the traffic once assigned to the wired Ethernet network.

Automation Network Selection: A Reference Manual, Third Edition

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Wireless Networks for Industrial Automation

Automation Network Selection

Automation Network Selection: A Reference Manual, 2nd Edition

Automation Network Selection: A Reference Manual, Third Edition