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Mouser will carry Sagrad's WiFi products, including evaluation kits and miniature 802.11 WiFi Modules for embedded, low-power and very small form factor mobile applications.

E.ON Kingsnorth, a 1940MW generating facility in Kent, UK, uses Rosemount wireless transmitters to collect flow measurement data from flowmeters installed throughout the turbine hall.

Emerson's wireless system monitor pressures and temperatures from 16 points on a reaction tank located about 250 feet from the central control room.

Mouser will distribute DeLorme's mapping and GPS products.

Kits let developers take individual ZigBee smart products (such as lights, heating and cooling, and security) and turn them into smart energy solutions and services.

Chevron uses Emerson Smart Wireless networks to monitor its steam injection process and measure down-hole well pressures.

Mouser will stock CalAmp’s UHF and VHF transceiver modules, telemetry modules, and telemetry radios that work across different, unique frequency bands.

Legal disputes have prevented exiderdome from being transferred from a barge to land for the second half of its U.S. tour.

Smart Wireless technology provides continuous performance data on critical boiler feed pumps and feedwater and air heaters.

Wireless devices are perceived as the next big technological wave in factory automation, but users are wary.

Eight Rosemount 648 wireless temperature transmitters were installed directly onto the exterior of a boiler drum situated fifty metres above the ground.

Control valves on North Sea installations are being remotely monitored by the Solberg & Andersen and Emerson diagnostics center in Norway.

Wireless instruments monitor heat-tracing on pipeline which must be hot to facilitate pumping.

Catalog covers industrial Ethernet to serial servers, USB to TTL converters, wireless remote I/O kits, and HMI/SCADA application management software.

Wireless instruments monitor the pipeline integrity of transfer lines from the BP refinery and report exceptional conditions to control room operators.

By Form Automation Solutions Manufacturing companies need live workers to check production facilities frequently and to correct issues immediately before they escalate. AuditMatic software and mobile computers are being used to automate gathering, analyzing and reporting field data.

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.

By Rick Zabel, Publisher Automation Insights Network is a select group of controls and automation professionals who agree to help us cover news, emerging trends and technologies on various automation topics. Every two months, we will ask people in the Network to share their observations, knowledge and expertise with us. We take that information, distill it, and pass it on to our reporters and editors for use in future stories.

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

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