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Tips and Tricks in Deploying Wireless Field Networks

Posted in Interoperability, Wireless on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012. No comments yet
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Since the WirelessHART standard was ratified in 2007 and approved as the global IEC 62591 standard in 2010, its use among process manufacturers has continued to grow. A release from last fall noted: IMS Research reports that worldwide shipments of industrial products that are wireless-enabled are set to grow from an estimated 1.2 million in [...]

Choosing Wireless Sensor Networks

Posted in Technologies, Wireless on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011. No comments yet
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Proprietary wireless sensor networks have been with us for more than a decade. The standards-based wireless network, IEC 62591 WirelessHART has now been available for more than 4 years. In an Industrial Automation Asia article, Choose Wireless Wisely, Emerson’s Jonas Berge describes some of the background and strengths of this wireless technology for the process [...]

When the Heat is on, Control with Wireless

Posted in Metals, Mining, Minerals, Temperature, Wireless on Monday, November 21st, 2011. No comments yet
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Emerson’s Michael Pearson, a member of the Rosemount Temperature team, provides today’s guest post and highlights how wireless instrumentation can avoid issues with process-caused damaged wiring and other causes. Many temperature measurement challenges exist when monitoring high temperature assets including heat damage, moving equipment, and high electromagnetic interference (EMI). North Star Bluescope Steel had all [...]

Coriolis and Wireless Measurement in Pipeline Leak Detection

Posted in Flow, Wireless on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011. No comments yet
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In September, the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) Pipeline Leak Detection Technology Conference gathered to: …provide vendors, scientists, and research and development entities, the opportunity to describe the status of existing pipeline leak detection technologies and related practices and have their technologies reviewed and appraised by ADEC. The overall objective of the Conference is [...]

2011 Emerson Exchange – Wireless Field Networks are Secure

Posted in Emerson Exchange, Wireless on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011. No comments yet
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The abstract of the workshop, Wireless Field Networks are Secure, is: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) required more than economic justification for wireless implementation in their plant. An intense three day test of wireless hardware integrated into AMS and DeltaV was completed. Security, reliability and ease of use were evaluated. Government cyber security experts monitored [...]

2011 Emerson Exchange – Wireless Relief Valve Monitoring is Now Possible

Posted in Final Control Element, Wireless on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011. No comments yet
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Wireless devices are finding their way into more and more applications. The abstract from this session is: Monitoring of relief valves is a challenge, detecting when they are “simmering”, or have lifted-off, or if after a lift-off did they re-seat fully. Sometimes knowing exactly when and how long an emission lasted is of value, especially [...]

Celebrating 10 Years of the Rosemount 3051S in Action

Posted in Measurement, Wireless on Tuesday, October 25th, 2011. No comments yet
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The old cliché, “time flies when you’re having fun” applies to the many Emerson folks who had a hand in the development, launch, and widespread use of the Rosemount 3051S Series of pressure, DP [differential pressure] level, and DP flow transmitters. Congratulations on this milestone! The continued advance of technology as predicted by Moore’s Law [...]

Riding the Copper Rollercoaster

Posted in Metals, Mining, Minerals, Wireless on Monday, October 10th, 2011. No comments yet
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Mining companies must continually adapt to changing prices to survive and thrive. Emerson’s Michael Pearson describes the drop in copper prices and how one mining company incorporated wireless flow measurement to remove costs from their operations. Copper has had a rough couple of months. In the past two months, it has dropped from $4.50 per [...]

EDDL Standard Enables Human Center Designed Applications

Posted in Interoperability, Wireless on Tuesday, October 4th, 2011. 2 comments so far
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ControlGlobal.com has an article, Get Connected with WirelessHART, which highlights the rapid adoption of this international standard. The article’s author notes: According to the wireless study published in Control’s August 2011 issue, 43% of respondents said they already had wireless field networks, while another 27% said they were planning to install them in the next [...]

Tank Storage Wireless Level Measurement and Overspill Protection

Posted in Level, Terminal, Wireless on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011. No comments yet
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Imagine being an operator for a Swedish tank storage facility aside the Baltic Sea and having to manually measure tank levels in the dead of winter. That’s exactly what operators at FH Tank Storage AB have had to do at the Kalmar storage terminal in a story told by Process Industry Informer. The article, EMERSON’S [...]

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