Industrial Wireless Communication

Standards and Security

Wireless communication everywhere means also in the Industrial Environment. This implies tough requirements on reliability to avoid disturbance. We will hear about standardization, development and practical experience.

Presentations will be made by:

Dr Krister Landernäs ABB Corporate Research

"WirelessHART - Wireless Automation made Possible"

Wireless technologies are becoming more and important both in public and industrial environments. However, so far no wireless technology has been widely adopted for industrial automation. This situation is likely to change with the introduction of WirelessHART. WirelessHART is the first wireless standard specifically developed for process monitoring and control. ABB is playing an important role in developing the standard and is developing several WirelessHART products. The seminar will give an introduction to WirelessHART, provide experiences from standardization work and present a wireless device for vibration monitoring.   

Krister Landernäs received both his MSc and PhD degree from MdH in Västerås. His research at MdH included design and implementation of digital filters. He has been a guest lecturer at the university teaching a graduate course in wireless communication.
He currently holds a position at ABB Corporate Research where his work includes wireless integration in automation systems and wireless closed loop control. He is a working member of the WirelessHART standardization group and has published several papers on the topic of using WirelessHART for industrial automation applications.

Professor Jerker Delsing  Luleå University of Technology,  EISLAB

”Wireless control using 802.15.4 radio with substantial radio disturbances in a heavy industry”

Real time control over wireless link has been demonstrated in a real continuous process industry environment. The wireless link uses 802.15.4. radio. The wireless has been exposed to substantial radio disturbance. Link performance regarding package losses and latency has been measured. The overall control performance has been monitored. All information has been made available as services to a governing business system using OPC UA.

Prof. Delsing received the M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden 1982. In 1988 he recieved the PhD. degree in Electrical Measurement at the Lund Univeristy. During 1985 - 1988 heI worked part time at Alfa-Laval - SattControl with development of sensors and measurement technology. In 1994 he got the docent degree (associate prof) in Heat and Power Engineering. Early 1995 he was appointed full professor in Industrial Electronics at Lulea University of Technology where he currently is working as the scientific head of EISLAB, http://www.eislab.csee.ltu.se. For the period 2004-2006 he also served as Dean of the engineering faculty at Lulea University of Technology. His present research profile can be entitled "Embedded Internet Systems", EIS, with applications to industry, medicin and sport. The general idea is that most sensors and actuator will have communication capability using the Internet and the "TCP/IP" protocol suite an be capable of ah-hoc integration into a communication network and an application framework. Since 1999 he is president of ITF (Instrument Tekniska Foreningen/Instrument Society of Sweden).

Mats Henriksson Freescale

“Building Blocks in an 802.15.4 network”

Implementing an 802.15.4 wireless network is relatively painless with today's highly integrated chipsets, however the large range of protocols which can reside on top of the hardware creates some challenges which require a deeper understanding. The presentation details the hardware, stack software, and development tools to allow system designers the smoothest possible path to a full implementation.