Wireless benefits are plant-wide and enterprise-wide
Invensys Process Systems is introducing seven new wireless-enabled systems as well as expanded global network implementation and support capabilities. These wireless-enabled systems can be deployed at both the plant and enterprise levels to help improve overall industrial asset performance management.
Hesh Kagan, strategic technology director at Invensys Process Systems, comments: “We have been careful to consider not just the initial cost-savings and long-term benefits that wireless-enabled solutions can deliver, but also the potentially higher support costs of wireless versus wired networks.”
Invensys’ portfolio of fully engineered and supported wireless-enabled asset performance management systems is both vendor-independent and standards-agnostic. The following systems can operate in conjunction with most vendors' products, systems, or software applications, using the most appropriate wireless standards available:
1. Mobile Workforce – provides employees in the field with secure roaming access to real-time control systems, enterprise applications, documents, and other information via wireless handheld devices and hardened Mil Spec and NEMA 4-rated tablet personal computers
2. Field Data Logging – enables personnel to quickly and accurately upload device and equipment status and diagnostic data to maintenance systems from the field
3. Condition Monitoring – wireless connection to remote sensors provides incremental measurements (tank levels, temperatures, pH, vibration, etc) to provide a richer real-time data base to support highly effective model-based predictive maintenance strategies. It integrates with Invensys’ Infusion Condition Manager, Avantis EAM, and third-party computerised maintenance management programs
4. Asset Tracking – uses RFID technology to provide accurate identification and location of fixed and rolling assets with optional visualisation on a handheld device. Supports E-pedigree asset tracking for Life Sciences
5. Physical Security – provides flexibility to implement any combination of mobile video, fixed surveillance cameras (with or without access controls), intrusion detectors, and proximity sensors as required to cost-effectively extend the reach of physical security throughout a single building, a plant, an entire complex, or even a series of complexes.
6. Personnel Safety – provides practical and cost-effective means to accurately identify physical location of personnel in real time, notify first responders of safety shower activation, provide ‘man-down’ notification for emergency services, and remote evacuation alarming. Helps safeguard employees and visitors and ease compliance with regulatory requirements
7. Communications – provides secure integration of multiple wireless technologies (including both VoIP and high-speed backhaul communications) to cost-effectively connect people, facilities, and systems. Standards-compliant, integrates with existing IT infrastructure and systems.
For more information, visit http://ips.invensys.com/wireless
