Top Considerations for Selecting Your Industrial Wireless Solution
Top Considerations for Selecting Your Industrial Wireless Solution
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Top ConsiderationsFor Selecting Your Industrial Wireless Solution
It’s About Choosing the Right Network
• Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities • Efficient
– Reliable and Available– Secure– Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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• Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities • Efficient
– Reliable and Available– Secure– Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
Top ConsiderationsFor Selecting Your Industrial Wireless Solution
It’s About Choosing the Right Network
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Endless Possibilities to Improve:
Safety Reliability Efficiency
Imagine the Possibilities
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Imagine the Possibilities: Safety
• Monitor employee locations and ensure safe procedural operations
• Safety shower monitoring
• Support emergency responders
• Wireless leak detection and repair support
• Integration with existing control and safety systems
A Refinery Installed Wireless Transmitters Plant-wide to Monitor Safety Showers and Meet OSHA Regulations
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Imagine the Possibilities: Reliability• Mobile and automated field
operator rounds with access to on-line data and reports
• Equipment health visualization, inventory mgt and document management
• Utilizing previously unreachable data in DCS and advanced apps
• Emissions monitoring
• Corrosion detection
A Chemical Plant Realized a 6 Month ROI from their Mobile Field Maintenance Tools
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Imagine the Possibilities: Efficiency
• Mobile operators operating their desktop applications and control room displays
• Bringing in real values instead of inferred values or for remote control
• Upgrading tank instrumentation
• Voice-over-IP for communicating among field workers equipped with Wi-Fi devices
An Ethanol Plant Prevented Costly Spills and is Saving $750K Annually
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities • Efficient
– Reliable and Available– Secure– Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Efficient: Reliable and Available– Do you have existing wireless in your plant; what frequencies are being used?– Can the new system co-exist with existing plant wireless?– How close are you to potential interferences?
Assess any New System in Context of your Plant-wide Environment and Requirements
• Choose a network that supports co-existence and conserves limited spectrum.
• Partner with a professional who can assess your site and design a reliable system specific to your site– Antenna selection is important; select a radio that’s
highest allowable for your area.
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Efficient: Reliable and Available
• Ensure redundant paths using self organizing mesh functionality
• Powered mesh infrastructure provides a fast mesh reformation, in seconds, with no loss of performance
Start with a Wireless Assessment for an Efficient Network Design
DCS
– Can the new system handle multiple hardware failures with no degradation in performance?– What are your uptime and availability requirements?
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
• Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities • Efficient
Reliable and Available– Secure– Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Efficient: Secure
– Is your facility close to townships or communities?– Do you want to manage just one wireless security system or many?– Can you design and implement the security yourself?
• Consider network utilization now and in the future• Choose a network with end-to-end security that addresses
all risk scenarios.• Consider a provider that will evaluate your risks and help
design and implement a solution if desired• Choose a security paradigm that is easy to maintain
Partner with a Proven Wireless Security Expert
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Simple: End-to-End Integrated Security
– Confidentiality
– Source authentication
– Replay protection
– Resistance to denial-of-service attacks– Convenient key management– “2 step” commissioning
Passive listener
Man-in-Middle
DNS Attacker
Rogue Devices
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities • Efficient
Reliable and Available Secure– Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Efficient: Scalable
– What applications will be used now and in the future? – How many devices will you need?– Will that be enough for the lifetime of your plant?
Evaluate The Wireless Network’s Ability To Expand To Meet Your Future Goals
• Consider the plant lifetime in your design process – anticipate technology innovation enabling more devices in unexpected areas
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Efficient: Scalable
• Research and select a system that meets your current expectations but can scale to meet unanticipated needs– Expect to double
• Avoid a rip-and-replace strategy to protect investment in training, security, and infrastructure.
Plan for Expansion Beyond What you Know Today
– What happens when you go beyond the limit of your network capacity? Can the network start small & grow?– Will more devices degrade the network performance?
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities Efficient
Reliable and Available Secure Scalable
• Simple– Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Simple– Is your workforce familiar with wireless technology?– Can you afford to hire new employees to install, maintain, and expand your network?
Don’t Assume that All Wireless Solutions are Simple
• Ensure your network can integrate with your wired networks with a simple and secure structure
• Minimize software suites• Consider all plant needs to standardize • Evaluate a convenient security and authentication key
management without sacrificing security.• Choose a provider that can help train, install, support, and
maintain your solution.
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities Efficient
Reliable and Available Secure Scalable
• Simple Usable and Simple– Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Simple: Power Management
– How long do you want your devices to be self powered?– Will your reporting rate needs be sustainable with self contained power, or will the device require an add-on power source?
Consider Your Reporting Rate Requirements
• Look for a system with deterministic power consumption to ensure predictable maintenance.
• Look for power management that fits both your alerting requirements and your battery replacement goals.
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Simple: Power Management
– Will your environment support add-on power sources, i.e. solar?– What level of predictable maintenance schedule do you require?– Are you willing to accept proprietary batteries?
Simplicity Lowers Your Total Cost of Ownership
• Look for a system with deterministic power consumption to ensure predictable maintenance.
• Look for power management that fits both your alerting requirements and your battery replacement goals.
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities Efficient
Reliable and Available Secure Scalable
Simple Usable and Simple Power Management
• Universal– Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Universal: Application and Protocol Support
Which applications will you use over the wireless network in the future?
Your Wireless Network Should Support all Your Wireless Needs
• Keep it simple – a single network reduces risk and support costs
What communication protocols will those apps require? Will you need these protocols running simultaneously?
• Consider a system that is open, standards-based, and upgradeable to ensure future viability
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Drive to One Network for Simplicity and Efficiency
• Research existing and pending regulations for alerting requirements– Safety shower requirements alarmed and logged
within 5-10 seconds– Sequence of events time stamping requirements
• Choose a solution provider that understands industrial requirements for integrating to control systems.
Can you afford to have your alarms and alerts transmitted back at the same rate as monitoring information?
Universal: Application and Protocol Support
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It’s About Choosing the Right Network
Think of the Future: Imagine the Possibilities Efficient
Reliable and Available Secure Scalable
Simple Usable and Simple Power Management
• Universal Application and Protocol Support– Choice
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Universal: Choice
• Will you need one global solution?• Will you want to use multiple vendor devices on the same
wireless network?• What level of flexibility do you need?
– Will you have different applications requiring different radio requirements (bandwidth, GSM connectivity, long-haul)?
– Does your network allow choices based on 802.11 standards for cost effective solutions.
• Is it an open system that allows connection to any plant system and inherently transports existing protocols?
Evaluate How Flexible Your Wireless Network Needs To Be
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Universal: Choice
Choose• One infrastructure that supports multiple radios
and frequencies• A solution with no barriers to future needs
These Choices Exist Now; Choose a System Upgradeable to Open Standards and New Features
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Choosing a Wireless Network• Choose a solution that supports an open and flexible approach to
wireless networking:
Plan for an industrial wireless network that can solve today's problems and meet your needs on the horizon. . . .
2.4/5.8GHz
Wi-Fi
802.11
900MHz
Field protocols
• Efficient– Send data reliably and when needed– Meet all plant security requirements– Handle multiple types of devices from a
few to thousands• Simple
– Provide predictable power management• Universal
– Handle multiple apps and protocols simultaneously