Featured Articles:
-Standards & Successes Emerge
-Topologies for Wireless Instrumentation
-Putting wireless to work in process operations
-Wireless Conquers Conservatism; and more

Resources & Literature:
-Industry Application Solution Guide Book
-Why WirelessHART?
-Delivering the Best User Experience with Voice over Wi-Fi; and more

Application Stories:
-Wireless solutions enable temperature profiling and tank level measurement
-New system allows two plants to act as one
-Wireless Helps Avoid Collisions; and more

Featured Training:
-NATE 2008
-Understanding New Mobile and Cellular Networks, Technologies and Services
-BICSI OKs CECs for Phoenix Contact Training Courses; and more

Product Announcements:
-Emerson announces Rosemount 702 Discrete Wireless Transmitter
-Emerson to enhance integration of Wireless into PlantWeb with DeltaV v10.3
-MOXA releases AWK-1200 wireless Access Point/Bridge
-Sena launches PSx10W Series wireless device server; and more

Company News:
-Podcast discusses challenges in manufacturing environments
-Are Browsers Dead?
-Wi-Fi Industry to Ship 300 Million Chipsets in 2007; and more

Application News:
-Wireless Barcode makes inventory crystal clear for Clayton Glass
-Octave Technology supplies wireless sensor framework to R&D lab
-AeroAstro upgrades SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System); and more

Featured Events:
-International Wireless Communications Expo
-RoboBusiness Conference & Expo
-Energy and Telecommunications Association (ENTELEC) Conference; and more

Standards & Successes Emerge
Control Engineering Asia, November 2007
By Madanmohan Rao
A number of case studies of successful industrial automation design and implementation are emerging in the field of intelligent embedded wireless sensor network (WSN) solutions.

Topologies for Wireless Instrumentation
Control Engineering, November 2007
By Peter Welander
To set the stage for wireless instrumentation, do you know how to get the signal from instrument to control system? Here’s a nuts-and-bolts guide to orchestrate your options for permanently mounted instrumentation.

Wireless Conquers Conservatism
Industrial Networking, Winter 2007
By Mike Spear
While many parties can see the potential benefits of wireless, few want to be first to try out a technology that was then, and to a certain extent still is, largely unproven on the large scale. The conservatism of the chemical industry, of course, extends well beyond the lack of enthusiasm for process intensification techniques.

Putting wireless to work in process operations
By Emerson Process Management
Wireless technologies offer process operations new opportunities for improvement. With a wireless strategy and architecture that align with your business needs, you can begin gaining the benefits today while facilitating additional applications in the future.

Improving PID Control with Unreliable Communications
By Jianping Song, et al, Emerson Process Management
This paper identifies the poor dynamic response of standard PID algorithms in the case of lost communications. It proposes an enhanced PID algorithm to improve dynamic response under these conditions. The authors evaluated the enhanced PID algorithm under several wireless scenarios.

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Industry Application Solution Guide Book
MOXA has just released this guide book with 33+ application solutions. Download your free copy. Registration required.

Why WirelessHART?
By HART Communication Foundation
White paper describes the WirelessHART standard, which provides a robust wireless protocol for the full range of process measurement, control, and asset management applications. It enables users to quickly and easily gain the benefits of wireless technology while maintaining compatibility with existing devices, tools, and systems.

Delivering the Best User Experience with Voice over Wi-Fi
This white paper from the Wi-Fi Alliance details the unique requirements of the voice application on Wi-Fi devices and previews its Voice-Personal certification program, planned for launch in the first half of 2008. Registration required to download white paper.

Deploying WPA and WPA2 in the Enterprise
Hands-on guide for deploying WPA and WPA2 in the enterprise. In covers Wi-Fi security, identifies the components of WPA and WPA2, and identifies issues that must be addressed before deploying WPA or WPA2 in the enterprise. Registration required to download white paper.

Practical Tips on WiMAX Field Measurement
White paper describes Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) digital communications technology, based on wireless transmission methods defined by the IEEE-802.16 air interface standard. Registration required to download white paper.

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Wireless solutions enable temperature profiling and tank level measurement
By Emerson Process Management
PPG Industries installed Emerson’s Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, LA. The plant uses ten wireless Rosemount transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement, which enables operators to watch for cold spots and adjust steam throughput.

New system allows two plants to act as one
Intech, December 2007
By Hesh Kagan
The Lower Colorado River Authority merged two power plants under one functional management system and implemented a new layered WiMax/WiFi wireless infrastructure to link the two plants and provide the foundation for a number of other wireless-enabled applications.

Wireless Helps Avoid Collisions
Control Engineering, October 2007
By Robert Dunlop, Andritz, and Adrienne Lutovsky, ProSoft Technology
For three multi-crane installation projects, system engineers at Andritz Inc. felt that a wireless Ethernet was the only way to achieve a reliable, high-performance anti-collision system.

Wireless solutions protect remote pumping facilities at Milford Power
By Emerson Process Management
Although the remote stations are heated during cold weather, executives of Milford Power wanted a way to continuously inform plant operators of severe temperature drops in case of a heater failure so that fast corrective action could be taken.

Westermo Ethernet switches serve water treatment plant in France
At the Seine Grésillons treatment plant, technicians can connect locally at any point of the network by wire or WiFi to the same production management interface to obtain data.

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NATE 2008
February 11-14, 2008 Orlando, FL
The annual NATE event is widely regarded as the most comprehensive and up-to-date educational event in the tower industry, and is dedicated to those who erect, service and maintain communications structures.

Understanding New Mobile and Cellular Networks, Technologies and Services
February 26-27, 2008 Washington, DC
Non-commercial, instructor led course covers the fundamentals, differences and evolution of all current and future mobile and cellular communications networks, technologies, standards, services, and spectrum bands.

BICSI OKs CECs for Phoenix Contact Training Courses
BICSI recognized several Phoenix Contact training courses for Continuing Education Credits (CECs).

Emerson offers free online training on wireless technologies
Emerson is offering 19 new online training courses on various aspects of wireless for process automation. Designed for anyone who uses automation to improve plant performance, the new courses are available free through Emerson’s educational website.

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• McObject releases free Perst embedded database
• Semaphore enhances T-BOX SCADA System for wireless
• Pentek introduces Model 7141 Dual Multiband Transceiver
• Connect One develops SecureGAP firewall technology for M2M applications
• Dickson announces Wireless Wizard data logger
• austriamicrosystems introduces the AS1542 12-bit ADC
• Pentek introduces Model 7142-428 Digital Transceiver
• Dust Networks announces SmartMesh-XT development kit
• MCC introduces Web-enabled temperature DAQ

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Podcast discusses challenges in manufacturing environments
Podcast covers challenges manufacturing environments face in providing real-time, actionable information from plant systems to both mobile and non-mobile employees.

Are Browsers Dead?
WirelessWeek - January 01, 2008
By Brad Smith
Ignoring the question of who is winning the phone browser war, the fact is that most cell phone owners don’t use their handsets to access the Internet. JupiterResearch’s study says the biggest reason people don’t turn on their phone browser is the high cost of data plans.

Wi-Fi Industry to Ship 300 Million Chipsets in 2007
By Wi-Fi Alliance
Wi-Fi chipset sales are poised to reach 300 million units this year, according to the Wi-Fi Alliance and In-Stat. Driven by ongoing strength in the PC networking market and new growth in consumer electronics and handsets, this milestone represents a 41% growth rate from 2006.

Cooper acquires Sure Power, OMNEX and Roam Secure
Combined sales for the three companies in 2007 will be approximately $62 million and the combined purchase price is approximately $100 million.

Will WiMAX Deliver on Its Royalty Promises?
By ABI Research
One of the major advantages claimed by the WiMAX community over their cellular cousins is that WiMAX will come with a far lower average royalty rate than either LTE or UMB. A favorite phrase among the WiMAX OEM community is that WiMAX has effectively “democratized” the 4G space. it could be argued that this democratization of IP will result in more, not fewer, IP royalties.

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Wireless Barcode makes inventory crystal clear for Clayton Glass
Process & Control Today, October 2007
By John Houston
Clayton Glass in the UK uses a wireless barcode inventory based on RF Datalogic Kyman scanners running over a wireless network utilizing Proxim access points.

Octave Technology supplies wireless sensor framework to R&D lab
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is using wireless sensor networking software from Octave Technology.

AeroAstro upgrades SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System)
AeroAstro will provide ground network upgrades to Globalstar's deployed receivers to expand the current subscriber messaging capacity by 10 X and increase receiver sensitivity by up to 40 percent.

Using Industrial Wireless Ethernet in Mining Systems
A mine uses a combination of Moxa's AWK-1100 wireless AP/Bridge/AP Client and an industrial Ethernet switch.

International Wireless Communications Expo
February 25-29, 2008 Las Vegas, NV
he International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) is the one place where all industries and communications professionals come together to share thoughts and ideas on wireless communications technologies.

RoboBusiness Conference & Expo
April 8-10, 2008 Pittsburgh, PA
Business development and technical issues involved with the commercial application of mobile robotics and intelligent systems technology.

Energy and Telecommunications Association (ENTELEC) Conference
April 9-11, 2008 Houston, TX
Technical conference and trade relating to energy and utility industries. Technical and training sessions and presentations with a trade show with 150 plus exhibitors for radio, SCADA, and automation related products and services.

Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2008
April 24-26, 2008 Pomona, CA
Interdisciplinary conference that brings together industry professionals and academics from companies, governmental agencies, and universities around the world to exchange information on advances in mobile communications and wireless networking technology, business, applications, and security.

TEM 2008
April 28 - May 1, 2008 Orlando, Florida
TEM 2008 is where best practices and innovation for telecom environment management come together for a can’t-miss event for anyone holding responsibility for enterprise telecom services and assets.

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Vice President, Publisher
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