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Reps include Cain White, EG Holmes and Assoc., Theta-J, TL Marketing and WaveSpace. Itnegrators include AISD Inc, Digital AV, LS Research, Software Technologies Group and Talon Communications.

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

Emerson will install Smart Wireless technology in the Morichal District oil fields for PDVSA, the Venezuelan state-owned oil company.

Catalog covers Modbus Ethernet to serial servers, switches,media converters, wireless modems and remote I/O, serial converters, USB, and digital and analog remote I/O.

End-user judges select Croda Inc’s moving railcar monitoring as “Most Creative” and CFE Lapem’s temporary power unit monitoring as “Most Significant Business Impact.”

Emerson has begun shipping WirelessHART products from its Smart Wireless range of pressure, flow, level, temperature, vibration, pH, and discrete transmitters and gateways.

Allied will offer the HyperLink product line, which includes antennas, surge and lightning protectors for WLANs, SCADA Systems, ISM, GSM and RFID design applications.

HART 7.1 was approved by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as a Publicly Available Specification (IEC/PAS 62591Ed. 1).

By Rick Zabel, Automation.com The proposed name change of ISA (to "International Society of Automation") is up for a vote again during ISA Expo in Houston, October 14-16, 2008. Last year, the change was voted down, but I have yet to hear a compelling argument against the change. And there are many reasons for the change. If ISA is truly the global society of automation professionals, then its name should reflect its cause. It's time for a change!

Emerson named Steven A. Sonnenberg executive VP and promoted John M. Berra to chairman of Emerson Process Management

OPCTI released a 20 page document containing answers to the top OPC integration questions.

The partnership will provide a platform for cost-effective solutions will help deliver even more energy-efficient, intelligent building control systems.

ICONICS provides several OPC tools to assist users in creating OPC servers and in deploying an OPC-based system.

Customers can now activate the BT-6000 series modems on the Sprint network to enable wireless data applications in the SCADA, business continuity, and landline replacement markets.

The discrete wireless market for ISA SP50 levels 0 through 2 totaled $368.0 million in 2007 and is forecasted to grow to over $780 million in 2012.

Siemens and Jacobs Automation have agreed to jointly develop a PROFINET interface for Jacobs Automation s PackTrak linear drive system.

Wireless will enable Arkema's field operations teams to keep in touch with process alarms and plant conditions.

Visual KPI is compatible with Motorola’s MOTO Q 9h Windows Mobile 6 Standard, a full-function smartphone.

Kepware will provide communications for a communications Gateway for use with an Allen Bradley Control Logix controller.

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.