Technical and economical assessment of the use of wireless gateways in industrial networks

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Diego Resende (Author) Other; Max Mauro Santos (Author) Other; Omar Garzedin (Author) Other; Paulo Portugal (Author) FEUP; Francisco Vasques (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON'09

Pages: 2499-2504

35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 09

Porto, Portugal

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-007-T3M

DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5415223

Abstract (EN): The integration between industrial applications and industrial networks technologies is a required condition to share information at the factory level. Industrial networks are known for having different communication protocols. Therefore wired gateway technologies play an important role in the integration of different protocol stacks, wherever that integration is necessary. However, if there are physical constraints that make hard setting up a wired gateway, such as, difficult access for the required cabling, the use of a wireless gateway may present both a technical and an economical advantage when compared with wired gateway. This paper illustrates two industrial automation case studies, where both solutions use ELPRO wireless gateways proposed by TecWise Company®. The assessment results confirm that the use of wireless gateways may be an interesting solution for the industrial communication interconnection being analyzed. In this paper, we make a technical and economical assessment of the use of wireless gateways in industrial networks as a contributive solution for the integration of different industrial communication protocols.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 6