Wireless communications solutions for industrial applications: aerospace, oil & gas, plant monitoring and building automation
A Romanian company with more than 20 years' experience offers their developed wireless technology to industry partners via commercial agreement with technical assistance.
The solutions offered are based on communication devices such as radio modules, wireless routers or gateways, ultra-wide band evaluation kit, ISA100 wireless kit and similar industrial wireless technology. These solutions are meant to be adapted to all types of industries and to very particular requirements.
The Romanian company developed wireless solutions and it has filed a list of patents in the field of communications granted in USA, Europe and Japan.
The wireless technology integrated onto control and monitoring systems have characteristics specific to industrial applications: time diversity, collision avoidance, frequency diversity, automatic repeat-reQuest, spectrum management, mesh topology, graph routing, duocast, ease of deployment, link and transport layer security, sophisticated security, sleep mode for routing devices, object oriented architecture and IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) capability at device level.
More specifically, the wireless applications for operations can be developed for monitoring temperature, pressure, humidity, gas emissions and other various solutions for industrial critical conditions. The operation can be adapted to the remote control of industrial machines or mechanical systems, not just for monitoring and collecting data. Such solutions are possible because of the wireless standard's real time communication capability. The need behind the control and monitoring operations in industrial development is the reduction of machines maintenance costs, the increase of safety standards and the quality of operations.
The company's industrial wireless technology is compatible with many types of infrastructure projects, it is functional in harsh and hazardous environments, it is reliable and it offers a high security level.
Their solutions cover:
Aerospace:
1. Wireless monitoring system for satellite temperature and acceleration in preflight testing
- redundancy for temperature and accelerometer nodes
- temperature data acquisition with 10 thermocouples/1 node
- cold temperature junction compensation in real time
- data acquisition system able to read simultaneously 8 accelerometers
- TEDS (Transducer Electronic Data Sheet) data reading
- 4 kHz accelerometer sampling
2. Communications bus replacement between the satellite's modules
- the industrial wireless technology has been ported onto UWB (ultra wideband)
- actuator control is using wireless technology
Oil & Gas:
1. Steam traps
- integrated with wireless technology, transmits data collected about the steam pressure and temperature from the Modbus (serial communication protocol) to a centralized monitoring system.
- the Modbus server can be connected with 127 devices.
2. Plant Monitoring
- large number of devices that are auto configured in large networks
- can support 100 subnet devices
- several collocated subnets
- gathering data as fast as 250 ms sampling period
- 99% reliability
- low power
- dynamic bandwidth location
- redundancy paths for data transmission
Remote control for industrial cranes:
- gathering data as fast as 250 ms (millisecond)
- the latency is lower than 100 ms
- any combination of network communications can be validated
- less than 1 second for a device to join the control setup
- Lite System Manager (SM) that can run on an embedded platform
- Lite SM capabilities: 150 nodes, 200 links, 120 control packets
The radio modules:
- Include ready-made communication stacks
- Available for sub-GHz, 2.4GHz and UWB physical layers
- guarantee high integration flexibility, being able to support 3 types of interfaces: UART (universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter), SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit).
The company is serving industrial products and services providers who are looking to integrate communications solutions with their products. The wireless technology is flexible, reliable and secure. The standards are adaptable to any type of devices.
By providing innovating products and wireless technology the company is offering to potential partners long term solutions that are cutting costs and reducing the energy consumption under commercial agreement with technical assistance.
On the international industrial market, the company gained a good reputation concerning wireless solutions for niches like oil & gas, aerospace, plant monitoring, and other industry sectors. The projects already developed and implemented are successful stories which helped build trustful long term partnerships. The company is ISO9001 certified.
The two main company's divisions, hardware and software are working together in order to obtain automated systems for communications. The hardware team's responsibility is to design radio modems and wireless router accordingly to the requirements for reliability, manufacturing, cost and long life time. The software team, on the other hand, is handling the definition and implementation of critical standards that form the base of the industrial IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem. Together they are highly committed to meet every standards and expectations.
One thing that makes the company stand out is the drive towards innovation and recognition for the importance of R&D. Through its research activities, the company has pushed the limits of industrial Wireless Sensor networks technology on several occasions, such as when porting the wireless technology implementation from the 2.4 GHz bandwidth specified by the standard to new physical layers, namely Ultra-Wide Band and sub - 1 GHz. These activities are generating new intellectual property, which finds its way into the company's products and helps maintaining the technological competitive advantage.
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