C3.1 - Wireless Automation
- Event
- AMA Conferences 2013
2013-05-14 - 2013-05-16
Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings SENSOR 2013
- Chapter
- C3 - Wireless Sensors I
- Author(s)
- G. Scholl, R. Heynicke, D. Krüger, R. Hornung - Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg (Germany)
- Pages
- 379 - 383
- DOI
- 10.5162/sensor2013/C3.1
- ISBN
- 978-3-9813484-3-9
- Price
- free
Abstract
Resource conserving weight, material and energy savings, achievement of compliance with new environmental and safety requirements, cost-efficient retrofitting of already existing monitoring and control systems, improvement of labor productivity, inventory optimization, mobile operation and tracking, remote control and maintenance or alleviation and acceleration of awkward or laborious installations are still the main reasons for the employment of wireless technologies in automation applications. Therefore, more and more radio chips in combination with low-power microcontrollers are embedded into machines, tools, sensors and actuators. During the last years the the high market potential of wireless technologies has been recognized by nearly all important industrial players and various standards have been defined and are now paving their way into the markets, which can roughly be subdivided into transportation and logistics, building automation, factory and process automation and infrastructure plants. Still the wireless automation market offers opportunities for creative ideas, e.g. solutions for wireless coexistence or engineering tools for a fast and simple installation of wireless systems, but for nealy all market segments standardized wireless solutions are now available so that the application field for innovative proprietary solutions is steadily shrinking.