Wireless Sensors, PLCs

OVERCOME THE RESISTANCE TO UTILIZING WIRELESS SENSORS IN YOUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAM

How To:

Part of the Equation: Sensor Legacy

Sensor Originally Designed for the INSIDE of Haul Truck TireYou get a very Accuracy sensor built for an extremely tough environment-40 C to 85 C, 0 to 165 PSI, 100% TireLife (liquid)After 8+ years – a mature sensor technology looking for new applications

Plenty of Maintenance Monitoring Systems

AvailableIf you have the resources/desire, the technology exists to create a monitoring systems that will study the heat and vibration for a specific application and/or piece of equipmentA good example of this is SST’s Wireless “Pellet Mill Bearing Shaft Heat Detection System”

IF you spent the time you can find plenty of Hard Wired Monitoring Systems and A Few Wireless Systems that will do a decent job.

Wireless and Wired Infrastructure

Frequencies: 434 MHz, 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz 5.2 GHz, etcStandards/Protocols: Wi-Fi, ZigBee, WirelessHART, Bluetooth, etc

Wireless Environment

Existing Wired EnvironmentCables: Coaxial, Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, Fiberoptic, etc.

Standards/Protocols: EtherNet/IP, ProFinet, Modbus TCP/IP, ControlNet, etc.

As exciting as the wireless solutions are, we are looking attwo very different technology environments

Major Issue of Utilizing Wireless Sensors Getting Buy in

Both Wireless and Wired have their strengths and weakness

However Wired is the legacy system – in almost all existing facilities

Electrician’s, Millwrights - know the legacy system

A “second” system – EVEN if it does everything better than the legacy system –

suffers buy in The PLC – an integral part of the legacy system is the key to

getting buy in

How To Get Buy In? Combine Wireless with the Existing Wired Legacy System

Please contact enCompass with your Wireless ideas!

Putting the Wireless Sensor data through the existing PLC gives you all the benefits of Wireless on your existing HMI system

EtherNet/IP – ODVA conformance tested Control Logix AOI – Interface CodeFactory Talk View SE Global Objects

Modbus TCP

enCompass has made wireless appear wired

By merging a facilities existing wired infrastructure with wireless devices presents infinite solution opportunities – with buy in

Questions, Comments, Ideas

Please Contact:

Direct: 250 900 7374Graham Schnare, Product Development

Email: gschnare@encompassgroup.ca