Manufacturing Industry
Wireless: more of it, but is it standard? As industry is implementing more wireless applications, concerns about incompatibilities continue, and end users provide more input into the ISA wireless standard for automation (SP-100).(STANDARDS)
Packaging Digest, February, 2007 by Hoske, Mark T.
Wireless applications are expanding to other industrial, commercial and consumer sectors, including packaging applications, after years of use for supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). As advantages encourage the use of wireless sensors, vendor incompatibilities slow market expansion, suggests research firm Frost & Sullivan. More adoption of wireless technology results from "proven reliability, cost effectiveness, and the ability to offer real-world industrial technologies," says Dr. R. Thusu, a Frost & Sullivan industry analyst. Drastic upgrades in hardware and software have improved reliability, he says, despite interoperability challenges in using wireless sensors and transmitters from multiple vendors. "Embedding proprietary software is aggravating this...
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