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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. |
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Emerson wireless network to monitor wells in Venezuela
- 10/01/08
Emerson will install Smart Wireless technology in the Morichal District oil fields for PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company. |
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Emerson expands wireless technology at BP
- 10/01/08
Smart Wireless mesh is overseeing BP R&D Naperville Tank Farm, expanding at BP's Cherry Point Washington refinery, and is being installed at BP facilities worldwide |
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Invensys to supply Arkema Rotterdam with Mobile Operator Wireless Solution
- 09/02/08
Wireless will enable Arkema's field operations teams to keep in touch with process alarms and plant conditions.
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MTS level sensors monitor petroleum shipments for Truman Arnold
- 08/25/08
MTS is providing MG Level Plus liquid-level wireless transmitters to Truman Arnold Companies of Caddo Mills, Texas, to measure and monitor daily shipments of more than one million gallons of petroleum. |
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Kepware provides communications for Online Development's ControlLogix Gateway
- 08/25/08
Kepware will provide communications for a communications Gateway for use with an Allen Bradley Control Logix controller. |
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Invensys expands automation contract with Czech power plant
- 08/20/08
Invensys will upgrade the existing Foxboro I/A Series system to Version 8.4, expanding the existing mesh network. In 2006, the company completed an upgrade to an earlier version of I/A Series. |
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Extronics to improve plant visibility at Milford Haven refinery
Process and Control Today, July 2008
Extronics will supply a wireless network for hazardous environments at Total’s UK-based refinery The intrinsically safe and explosion proof wireless network will deliver work scheduling and position status feedback to operators on more than 1,500 manual valves involved in the offsite operations for display on a process mimic. Windows Mobile PDAs and RFID tags can be used by operators to enter the status of the valves and feed the information back to the process mimic.
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GainSpan selects Green Hills Software for Wi-Fi Sensor Network
- 05/19/08
GainSpan provides Wi-Fi semiconductor and software solutions that enable sensors and other devices to run up to 10 years on a single AA battery. |
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GreenPeak supplies wireless mesh networking to Kronos
- 04/22/08
Hortimax, a Kronos VAR, built a harvest administration system that monitors the activity and location of individual mobile harvesting carts in greenhouses.
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JMP provides controls for Ontario water treatment plant
- 03/03/08
Project includes controls for the high lift and low lift pumps, UV system, clarifier, generator, filters, Ethernet network, wireless and a Wonderware SCADA system. |
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Emerson installs Wireless on Norwegian offshore platform
- 02/25/08
Mesh field network monitors wellhead annular pressure and heat exchanger pressures on the Grane offshore platform. |
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Sports drink plant uses Control-See software for plant paging
- 02/14/08
System retrieves real-time, event-driven alarms and data from PLCs and broadcasts the alarms and data via email messaging.
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Wireless Enables Temperature Profiling and Tank Level Measurement at PPG Plant
Process and Control Today, January 2008
PPG installed an Emerson Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA. The production installation follows field trials of Emerson’s self-organising wireless networks conducted by a PPG cross-functional process and corporate IT personnel team. |
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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.
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Octave Technology supplies wireless sensor framework to R&D lab
- 11/15/07
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is using wireless sensor networking software from Octave Technology. |
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AeroAstro upgrades SENS (Sensor Enabled Notification System)
- 10/19/07
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.
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Emerson installs wireless technology at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel
- 10/03/07
Emerson's Smart Wireless network is operating reliably in both the roughing and finishing sections of the hot strip mill.
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Emerson installs wireless system at Milford Power
- 09/26/07
Emerson's wireless system monitors remote equipment buildings at Milford Power, a 500 MW gas-fired turbine facility in Milford, CT.
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Emerson wireless technology monitors temperature in railcars at Croda
- 09/19/07
Wireless network continuously monitors potentially hazardous temperatures in railcars at Croda specialty chemical plant in Mill Hall, Pennsylvania. |
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Emerson's wireless solution installed at PPG in Louisiana
- 09/13/07
PPG Industries installed Emerson's Smart Wireless solution at its Chemical Division facility in Lake Charles, Louisiana. It uses ten wireless Rosemount transmitters for pipeline and steam header temperature measurement.
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Korenix Managed PoE Switch installed on Trains
- 09/11/07
Korenix JetNet 4706 Managed PoE Switch with WiMax network installed on a train in Europe provides train passengers with a reliable and seamless internet connection.
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Wi-Tronix uses RTI Messaging Middleware for asset tracking
- 09/10/07
Wi-Tronix products wirelessly monitor high-value mobile assets such as locomotives, industrial and mining equipment, and marine vessels. |
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Perpetuum powers TI devices by harvesting vibration energy
- 08/22/07
PMG17 vibration energy-harvesting microgenerator can power TI's RF transceiver and microcontroller, paving the way for battery-free sensor operation. |
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GE MDS to provide wireless infrastructure for Algerian electric company
- 08/03/07
GE MDS is providing more than 1,000 radios and antennas, valued at $3.3 million, for the entire system. |
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Dust Networks' Wireless Sensor helps city parking
- 06/11/07
Dust Networks has been selected as the provider for Streetline's City Infrastructure Technologies (CiT) Platform.
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Objective Interface supplies ORBexpress RT to NASA
- 06/11/07
NASA will use ORBexpress RT in a research project to develop a software architecture solution for NASA’s next-generation software defined radios. |
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ArWest supplies UHF Digital Radios to Topcon
- 06/06/07
UHF transceivers will be integrated within the Topcon GR-3 Satellite Receiver. The initial award involves the delivery of several thousand radios by September 2007. |
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ISA-SP100 group accepts wireless draft standard
- 03/30/07
At a recent ISA-SP100.11a working group meeting in Karlsruhe, Germany, 60 attendees unanimously approved the scope and systems architecture of Release 1 of the draft standard. Release 1 will assure multi-vendor device interoperability, and will include only 2.4 GHz 802.15.4-2006 radios. |
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Invensys and Apprion install wireless infrastructure at power company
- 03/27/07
Invensys Process Systems and Apprion have successfully implemented wireless applications at the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) Lost Pines Power Park. LCRA recently merged these two plants under one functional management system with a layered WiMax/WiFi wireless infrastructure to help link the two plants. |
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SOMA uses McObject’s eXtremeDB-HA database in microwave system
- 03/21/07
SOMA Networks will incorporate McObject’s eXtremeDB High Availability (HA) in-memory embedded database in its FlexMAX Mobile WiMAX System. |
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New York City cleans up with Intermec Mobile Computers and Printers
- 03/14/07
The Department of Sanitation of New York is incurring significant labor and costs savings with a new system of Intermec handheld computers and printers that helps agents issue tickets for recycling, health and administrative code violations. |
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Tendril supplies Network software to TI for Zigbee hardware
- 03/13/07
TI Will Integrate Tendril Network Operating Solution in the TI ZigBee Development Kit |
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Honeywell to install wireless control system at Chinese iron & steel manufacturer
- 11/15/06
Honeywell will provide an advanced automated process control system with integrated wireless technology for Masteel, one of China's largest iron and steel manufacturers. The contract includes Honeywell's IntelaTrac PKS process control system, Uniformance PHD, LIMS. Digital Video Manager (DVM) system, and design, engineering, commissioning, testing and maintenance services. |
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