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Hot tanks at the refinery are fitted with wireless temperature transmitters as a cost-effective means of keeping control room operators informed of conditions inside the tanks.

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Smart Wireless instruments mounted on a rotating reactor at Coogee Chemical Company, Kwinana, Australia, prevent frequent reactor breakdowns and lost production time.

OPC Foundation and Kepware will manage the development of OPC-UA in a managed community “open source code” model.

Wireless transmitters monitor wellhead annular pressure at BP’s Wytch Farm onshore oilfitters field.

The group will develop a common method for data exchange and an analyzer data model for process and laboratory analyzers.

Cypress Envirosystems partnered with Honeywell to create a OneWireless version of its Wireless Gauge Reader.

Compact Application Protocol (CAP) expands ZigBee applications to any IP-enabled device, regardless of the type of network, wired or wireless. Arch Rock submitted the CAP spec to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Boise enhanced safety at its paper mill in St. Helens, Oregon, by using Smart Wireless products to monitor its eye wash and safety shower stations.

ICONICS' list of compatible OPC Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) and Data Access (OPC-DA) servers is available on line.

Mouser will stock AXSEM’s universal and long-range sub 1Ghz ISM RF transceivers, as well as the associated evaluation and development kits.

Nivis and Apprion will collaborate on providing industrial facilities with secure wireless networks, devices, applications and services.

As part of the wireless backhaul network initiative, the Fieldbus Foundation and ISA will develop a standard to interface between different technologies.

In a recent study, 83 percent of the end users across process and factory automation rated interoperability as a medium to high concern.

TÜVRheinland is now able to provide ZigBee compliance testing for the ZigBee Smart Energy Public Application Profile, 50% faster than using the manual process.

The catalog contains 800 pages with more than 4,800 products, including hundreds of new items.

Fourteen Rosemount wireless pressure transmitters monitor levels in tanks at Technochem Environmental Complex Pte Ltd (TEC) in Singapore.

Catalog has over 115,000 products plus technical information and product photos.

Wireless instruments enabled one analytical team to cover 10 percent more plants, adding annual service revenues of $512,000 and improving power production per unit of fuel consumed.

Genzyme uses wireless temperature, pressure, and level transmitters to protect product quality and to reduce waste at its Therapeutics enzyme manufacturing facility in Allston, MA.