Wireless technologies for industrial automation Wireless networks for industrial automation enhance the ability to gather time-critical information, digest it, and react, key to continuously adapting to change with increasing reliability and profitability. No one type of wireless technology resolves all challenges. The evolution in wireless technologies has opened the door to a new class of plant automation architecture that offers adopters a significant strategic advantage. Driven by substantial and measurable cost savings in engineering, installation, and logistics, as well as dramatic improvements in the frequency and reliability of field data collection, automation experts and IT professionals are presented with an opportunity to deliver a major, positive impact to the bottom line. Cost benefits are the most intuitive among what’s driving adoption of wireless technologies. Other important considerations are safety and better management of legacy ass
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SCADA ( supervisory control and data acquisition ) is a system that operates with coded signals over communication channels so as to provide control of remote equipment (using typically one communication channel per remote station). The control system may be combined with a data acquisition system by adding the use of coded signals over communication channels to acquire information about the status of the remote equipment for display or for recording functions. [1] It is a type of industrial control system (ICS). Industrial control systems are computer -based systems that monitor and control industrial processes that exist in the physical world. SCADA systems historically distinguish themselves from other ICS systems by being large-scale processes that can include multiple sites, and large distances. [2] These processes include industrial, infrastructure, and facility-based processes, as described below: Industrial processes include those of manufacturing, productio