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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff Posted on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:28:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Targeting rotating machinery that can cause plant downtime, the automation provider adds new monitoring capabilities to its wireless mesh network offering. |
| Keywords: | Equipment monitoring, wireless equipment monitoring |
Process automation giant Honeywell has teamed up with SKF Group, a provider of condition monitoring technology, to deliver a turnkey system for monitoring rotating equipment over Honeywell's OneWireless industrial mesh network. The product, called OneWireless Equipment Health Monitoring (EHM), transmits vibration and operating parameter information from pumps, compressors, and motors in the plant to asset management and distributed control systems to help personnel schedule maintenance and track inventory. OneWireless, which Honeywell rolled out in June, is designed as a plant-wide network that can support multiple industrial protocols and applications. It also supports a variety of radios and transmitters used in different applications. Devices with wireless sensors can send small amounts of data back onto the mesh network for location applications, for example. But monitoring conditions such as acceleration, velocity, temperature, and bearing data requires radios that can accommodate higher-bandwidth transmissions, sent less frequently. OneWireless EHM answers that need by packaging hardware and software in a system that is easily deployed, the company said. [Click to continue] |
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