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by Stephanie Neil, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:03:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Industrial automation specialist offers starter kits for creating a wireless mesh network and announces a location system for people and assets as the first application. |
| Keywords: | Honeywell, wireless mesh networking, factory networks, wireless plant communication, plant floor asset tracking, wireless transmitters, self-forming network, plant safety, factory emergency plan |
Phoenix — Honeywell has adapted its expertise in wireless building security and home alarm systems to the industrial space with the debut of its OneWireless mesh network, announced this week here at the company's annual Process Solutions user group meeting. The wireless mesh network aims to not only improve plant safety, reliability, and efficiency, but also save manufacturers money, officials said during a press conference. The OneWireless infrastructure, which works with multiple industrial protocols and applications simultaneously, was announced in tandem with its first industrial application, the Honeywell Instant Location System, a real-time tracking system for both people and industrial assets. Both the location system and OneWireless integrate with a variety of wireless location technologies, including GPS, WiFi, and active RFID. Honeywell's approach to wireless is to create a standards-based platform that can stretch across acres, if need be. The OneWireless infrastructure is scalable to 30,000 devices using existing Honeywell XYR 5000 transmitters or the newer XYR 6000 line, which includes corrosion, gauge pressure, differential pressure, high-level analog input, and temperature transmitters. [Click to continue] |
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