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By installing the eWON VPN routers and Talk2M Internet-based remote access system, Aquatic Engineering & Construction is able to monitor and quickly resolve issues on its heavy-duty tensioner equipment, located onboard remote marine vessels.

The first official certificate for a successfully tested EtherCAT device was issued not long after the new North American EtherCAT Test Center was accredited by the ETG.

Founded in 1989, Online Development Inc. (OLDI) designs and manufactures factory automation products to help customers simplify data transfer, control and communications tasks.

The OPC Foundation Test Lab in Scottsdale, AZ certified TeslaSCADA, a SCADA solution for smart phones and other Android devices.

Various wireless topologies can be employed to meet the demands of industrial wireless applications, including star, tree, mesh, and cluster.

The integration of wireless technology into products that were previously wired has caused a steady shift in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test services.

By Brian Roth, Antaira Technologies Wireless networks are typically setup as an access point, bridge or client combination. The major difference is the access point allows multiple individual wireless devices to connect to the access point. A wireless bridge is used to link a smaller network of devices to the main network through a single wireless connection.

Swiss based u-blox acquired Swedish connectBlue, a provider of industrial-grade short range radio modules.

With aging substations, a risk of blackouts and increasingly higher maintenance costs, GSE installed a remote monitoring systems based on wireless sensor networks.

GAMBICA says the telecommunications industry wrote a standard where key wireless devices can never be relied upon to report their alarm or status messages in a timely fashion. This restriction is likely to make Europe lose significant competitive ground in the industrial wireless field.

The module significantly reduces the amount of time and resources to develop ISA100 Wireless-compliant products.

Dr. Thomas Bürger, Klaus Weyer, Alexander Verl and Matheus Bulho were elected to the board.

BP is using Smart Wireless technology from Emerson Process Management as part of a leak detection system that helps enhance safety at its chemical production center in Geel, Belgium.

Sightsys provides stacks, libraries, tools and services for CANopen, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT and POWERLINK.

By Peter Engstrom, STEUTE Industrial Controls There is a large selection of devices for transmitting and receiving continuously variable parameters like flow, but there has been little available in the way of wireless devices for generating and receiving simple "on-off" signals. This is changing.

Sercos scheduled three technical webinars for May and June that will provide interested parties insight into the technology.

RAM 9000 RTUs can securely monitor remote devices via AT&T's 4G LTE cellular communications in North America.

NEXCOM provides a broad range of industrial computing solutions for demanding industrial environments.

The product portfolio that Softing Industrial Automation acquired includes solutions for monitoring industrial networks, incljuding PROFIBUS, PROFINET and Industrial Ethernet.

The SABIC Olefins plant in Teesside, UK, uses Emerson's wireless condition monitoring and prediction system to detect potential problems with pumps before they disrupt normal operations.