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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:13:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Emerson aims to facilitate better use of wireless networks in the plant, while Cisco looks to extend its reach into industrial markets. |
| Keywords: | Wireless plant floor, Cisco, Emerson, wireless process management, plant data, asset optimization, Smart Wireless, Unified Wireless Architecture, wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, plant communications wireless mesh networking |
In the latest coupling of an IT specialist and an industrial automation vendor, Cisco and Emerson Process Management announced an agreement through which the two will deliver an extensive wireless architecture that expands the breadth of applications available to process manufacturers. The duo has conducted extensive testing between Emerson's Smart Wireless mesh network for field device communication and Cisco's Unified Wireless Architecture, which includes industrial-class wireless access points, controllers, and network management software. In addition to validating that the technologies works together, Emerson has also been elevated to the rank of Cisco Solution Technology Partner, allowing the industrial giant to resell Cisco products. For customers, the Emerson-Cisco alliance means they can collect instrumentation data from Emerson's low-bandwidth, self-organizing field sensors, which leverage the wireless HART protocol, and seamlessly transition to high-speed open standards in the plant network — including Wi-Fi, Ethernet, and IP — to run voice over IP communications, surveillance video, and asset tracking systems. [Click to continue] |
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