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AST Pressure Sensors monitor Medical Safety Trailers
The pressure sensors are serving as components in a wireless remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations. -
Use Wireless Transmitters for Diagnostics, Improvements, and Metrics
Wireless transmitters can rapidly prototype, demonstrate, analyze and justify installations of online diagnostics, metrics and improvements. -
IO-Link Mapping Guide for sercos released
This user guide helps an automation engineer uniformly connect and integrate sensors and actuators equipped with an IO-Link interface into a sercos system. -
ETSI publishes specification for Ultra Low Energy wireless
DECT ULE (Ultra Low Energy), a low power consumption radio technology, is intended for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) applications. -
White paper describes wireless ‘Sentrollers’
In this paper, Sentrollers are defined as a new, all-encompassing term for sensors, actuators and controllers – the various devices that make up the new Internet of Things. -
Sercos III specification update available
Specification enhancements include updates to the sercos communication protocol and to the different sercos profiles (drive, I/O, encoder and energy). -
Nivis offers free ISA100.11a and WirelessHART software
The open source offering includes software for ISA100.11a and WirelessHART, including Field Devices, Backbone Router, Gateway, System Manager and Security Manager. -
Sercos exhibit at Hannover a success
The user organisation saw a significant increase in the number of visitors to its booth as well as in the quality of contacts compared to the previous year. -
Korenix switches prevent broadcast storms on Tibet Railway
By installing wired and wireless Korenix industrial Ethernet switches in 22 of its trackside railway stations and 96 field level sites, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway eliminated the risk of broadcast storms on its monitoring and control system network. -
Emerson to control waste-to-energy gasification facility in France
Emerson will supply an Ovation control system, AMS Suite predictive maintenance software, valves and smart wireless instrumentation to the waste- and biomass-fed power station at Morcenx in southwestern France. -
Sercos updates free Monitor software
The free tool allows a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the data traffic in sercos III networks, easing development, testing and troubleshooting. -
50th PI Competence Center Established
KW Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan, is the 50th PI Competence Center (PICC) for PROFIBUS and PROFINET. -
How to Achieve Reliable Foundation Fieldbus Communications
The commissioning and configuration of digital communications of a field-level network at an industrial operation, such as Foundation Fieldbus, is fundamental to obtaining certification of the digital -
FDT to support CIP networks in FDT2
The FDT Group will develop an annex to the FDT2 specification for users of EtherNet/IP, DeviceNet, CompoNet and ControlNet. -
ODVA announces “initiative for process automation”
Based on ODVA’s industrial EtherNet/IP, the results of this initiative will provide end users with more choices to deploy a complete Ethernet solution for process automation starting with connectivity down to the field level. -
ODVA forms special interest group for machinery information
The SIG will develop standards for the exchange of information between machines, and between machines and supervisory systems using EtherNet/IP and CIP, sercos III and/or OPC UA, whenever possible. -
MDIS Selects OPC UA for MCS-DCS Protocol Standard
MDIS selected OPC UA as the Master Control System (MCS) and Distributed Control System (DCS) protocol standard for offshore oil and gas production. -
Wibu-Systems joins OPC Foundation
Wibu-Systems, a supplier of security solutions, joined the OPC Foundation as a new active member. -
Rotork wireless actuators control tank farm
16 Rotork IQ40 actuators, one Pakscan P3 wireless master station and three network repeaters are used to control six 100,000 barrel tanks and four booster pumps at Martin Midstream Partners tank farm in Corpus Christi, Texas. -
Sercos exhibits at trade shows
sercos international participated in four events in four countries in four weeks world-wide in March 2013.
