Download - Intro - Wireless Sensors to PLCs - Sept 2015
Wireless Sensors, PLCs
OVERCOME THE RESISTANCE TO UTILIZING WIRELESS SENSORS IN YOUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
How To:
Part of the Equation: Sensor Legacy
Sensor Originally Designed for the INSIDE of Haul Truck TireYou get a very Accuracy sensor built for an extremely tough environment-40 C to 85 C, 0 to 165 PSI, 100% TireLife (liquid)After 8+ years – a mature sensor technology looking for new applications
Plenty of Maintenance Monitoring Systems
AvailableIf you have the resources/desire, the technology exists to create a monitoring systems that will study the heat and vibration for a specific application and/or piece of equipmentA good example of this is SST’s Wireless “Pellet Mill Bearing Shaft Heat Detection System”
IF you spent the time you can find plenty of Hard Wired Monitoring Systems and A Few Wireless Systems that will do a decent job.
Wireless and Wired Infrastructure
Frequencies: 434 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz 5.2 GHz, etcStandards/Protocols: Wi-Fi, ZigBee, WirelessHART, Bluetooth, etc
Wireless Environment
Existing Wired EnvironmentCables: Coaxial, Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, Fiberoptic, etc.
Standards/Protocols: EtherNet/IP, ProFinet, Modbus TCP/IP, ControlNet, etc.
As exciting as the wireless solutions are, we are looking attwo very different technology environments
Major Issue of Utilizing Wireless Sensors Getting Buy in
Both Wireless and Wired have their strengths and weakness
However Wired is the legacy system – in almost all existing facilities
Electrician’s, Millwrights - know the legacy system
A “second” system – EVEN if it does everything better than the legacy system –
suffers buy in The PLC – an integral part of the legacy system is the key to
getting buy in
How To Get Buy In? Combine Wireless with the Existing Wired Legacy System
Please contact enCompass with your Wireless ideas!
Putting the Wireless Sensor data through the existing PLC gives you all the benefits of Wireless on your existing HMI system
EtherNet/IP – ODVA conformance tested Control Logix AOI – Interface CodeFactory Talk View SE Global Objects
Modbus TCP
enCompass has made wireless appear wired
By merging a facilities existing wired infrastructure with wireless devices presents infinite solution opportunities – with buy in
Questions, Comments, Ideas
Please Contact:
Direct: 250 900 7374Graham Schnare, Product Development
Email: [email protected]