Secure communications for process & sefety systems: An overview of industry communication landscape - Challenges, opportunities, disruptive technologies

Peter Fuhr, Penny Chen, Hesh Kagan

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Abstract

Over the past two decades the incorporation of wireless technology into process and safety systems has systematically increased. Meanwhile, the changes in wireless and associated technologies have rocketed - some say splintered - into a vast array of proposed and engineered technical underpinnings. The wireless mesh networking activities originally funded by DARPA (mid-90's) greatly influenced the mesh network topologies that are key for 2014's industrial field transmitters. The bewildering array of consumer-based wireless transport (from Bluetooth, to Wi-Fi to all sorts of cellular technologies) may or may not come into play with process and perhaps even safety systems (if the everpresent security issues are resolved). Integration of multiple applications data sharing a transport "pipe" in a process facility has significant implications for the IT department. The list just goes on and on. Regardless, the economic advantages presented by wireless technologies asures that their use in process and safety systems will monotonically increase. This presentation delivered by the Director and Director-Elect of the ISA Communication Division as well as the past President of the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA) seeks to start with a "where are we now" in wireless technology (in general), then continue onwards to examine the Challenges, Opportunities, and Disruptive Technologies for process and safety systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014
PublisherInternational Society of Automation (ISA)
Pages141-162
Number of pages22
ISBN (Electronic)9781510801202
StatePublished - 2014
EventISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014 - Houston, United States
Duration: Oct 6 2014Oct 9 2014

Publication series

NameISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014

Conference

ConferenceISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period10/6/1410/9/14

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