ISA aims to create wireless standards
ISA - the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation society - has set up a committee to create standards, recommend practices, and produce reports, that will define procedures for implementing field-level wireless systems for automation and control.
Technologies to be covered by the ISA-SP100 committee include:
• field sensors for monitoring, control, alarms and shutdowns;
• wireless technologies, including those providing real-time field-to-business links; and
• discrete parts manufacturing, and fluid and materials processing.
Committee members have been drawn from end-users are well as suppliers and include representatives from BP, Emerson, Endress+Hauser, Honeywell, Invensys and Shell.
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