Abstract
Industrialization has led to a huge demand for a network control system to monitor and control multi-loop processes with high effectiveness. Due to these advancements, new industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) standards such as ZigBee, WirelessHART, ISA 100.11a wireless, and Wireless network for Industrial Automation-Process Automation (WIA-PA) have begun to emerge based on their wired conventional structure with additional developments. This advancement improved flexibility, scalability, needed fewer cables, reduced the network installation and commissioning time, increased productivity, and reduced maintenance costs compared to wired networks. On the other hand, using IWSNs for process control comes with the critical challenge of handling stochastic network delays, packet drop, and external noises which are capable of degrading the controller performance. Thus, this paper presents a detailed study focusing only on the adoption of WirelessHART in simulations and real-time applications for industrial process monitoring and control with its crucial challenges and design requirements.
Highlights
The network control system has been widely adopted in process industries and manufacturing plants producing goods such as food and beverages, chemicals, pulp and paper, crude oil refineries, and power generation plants to control and monitor field instruments
To deal with the anticipated trends, more research development solutions focusing on signal reliability, inter-operability, compactness, effective data transmission, and fault tolerance characteristics are essentially needed for the industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) protocols
All of them are organized based on several factors, such as network analysis, type of field device used, network topology, simulator tool used, and the controller used in both the simulation and real-time environments with its challenges and design requirements
Summary
The network control system has been widely adopted in process industries and manufacturing plants producing goods such as food and beverages, chemicals, pulp and paper, crude oil refineries, and power generation plants to control and monitor field instruments. These industrial control systems consist of a single instrument or a group of instruments that form a single- or multiple-loop network based on their design and deployment. The concept of applying automated networking control systems to industrial processes has grown in many applications, yielding autonomous controllers without the need for any human intervention This has led to the hybridization of combining analog and digital signals to create new wired communication protocols. To deal with the anticipated trends, more research development solutions focusing on signal reliability, inter-operability, compactness, effective data transmission, and fault tolerance characteristics are essentially needed for the IWSN protocols
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