TY - GEN
T1 - Secure communications for process & sefety systems
T2 - ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014
AU - Fuhr, Peter
AU - Chen, Penny
AU - Kagan, Hesh
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84943227793
T3 - ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014
SP - 141
EP - 162
BT - ISA Process Control and Safety Symposium 2014, PCS 2014
PB - International Society of Automation (ISA)
Y2 - 6 October 2014 through 9 October 2014
ER -