Wireless Sensors in Industrial Time-Critical Environments

• Main Authors: Cecílio, José (Author), Furtado, Pedro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Computer Communications and Networks,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Control engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Control.

Modern industrial systems are often highly automated, with hundreds or even thousands of sensors and actuators monitoring the various processes, overseen by a distributed control system (DCS). Such control systems increasingly make use of wireless communications, yet these must still satisfy all saf...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Industrial Control Systems: Concepts, Components and Architectures
• Distributed Control System Operations
• Industrial Protocols and Planning Considerations
• Scheduling of Wireless Sensor Networks
• Latency Modeling for Distributed Control Systems with Wired and Wireless Sensors
• Planning for Distributed Control Systems with Wired and Wireless Sensors
• Performance and Debugging
• Application Scenario: An Industrial Case Study
• Network Configuration: Example
• Network Layout: Example
• Evaluation of Planning and Monitoring Approaches: Details.