Yokogawa announces new Plant Wide Field Wireless. These new wireless products can be used to construct highly reliable large-scale plant networks, and may also be incorporated in small- and medium-sized networks that already utilize our existing products, substantially expanding their capability. This is in line with our “Grow” concept of enabling customers to expand their plant wireless networks while making full use of existing assets. The first of these products are scheduled to be released in March 2012.
Press Release :http://www.yokogawa.com/pr/news/2012/pr-news-2012-02-en.htm
Main Feature of new Plant Wide Field Wireless
Installation Flexibility & Scalability
The excellent network architecture including new access point offers massive scalability in extensive plants. Various types of interfaces with the Management Station are available for Access Points. For example, they can use WiFi for areas without connection lines. The small, light, and Zone-1 explosion-proof interfaces offer excellent installation flexibility.
Full Redundancy
In addition to our reliability of wireless physical layers (Reliable Radio), system redundancy technologies further improve the reliability. In Duocast, one field device performs simultaneous wireless communication with two designated access points, so it can seamlessly continue communication even if a problem occurs in either point. Combined with the duplication of gateways as well as systems, the reliability of wireless systems is further strengthened. It expands the applications of wireless systems not only to monitoring but also to control.
New products for Plant Wide Field Wireless
Field Wireless Management Station
Gateway with system and security manager
Field Wireless Media Converter
Signal Converter from Access Point to Management Station
100base-FX to 100Base-TX
Field Wireless Access Point
Flexible Backbone Router for Field Wireless
New Lineup of Wireless Transmitter
Exchangeable Antenna
Reduced power consumption (long battery life)
System Structure
