Emerson Expands Smart Wireless Field Starter Kit to Increase Range of Applications for Plant Improvement
Discrete switches, vibration and pH transmitters expand functionality of starter kit, which already provides a quick and easy way to apply wireless technology
Emerson Process Management has added discrete switches, vibration and pH transmitters, to the already wide range of components available in its Smart Wireless field starter kit. Currently deployed in hundreds of installations across industries and world regions, the kit enables users to choose from a wide range of functions, to realise fast and easy operations improvement, while experiencing wireless technology as a basis for future innovation and advantages. Complete use of standard WirelessHART™ technology further enhances user flexibility.
“This kit makes it very simple and low risk to try Smart Wireless,” said Bob Karschnia, vice president of wireless technology at Emerson. “Companies that have never used this technology can quickly and easily begin to reap the same benefits gained by their peers who are already using Smart Wireless.”
Orderable online (www.EmersonProcess.co.uk/SmartWireless), the kit establishes an out-of-the-box secure WirelessHART self-organising network that delivers greater than 99 per cent communications reliability in the typical steel and concrete plant environment. The network organizes around obstacles, whether permanent such as steel girders, or mobile – for example, moving rail wagons or vehicles.
The Smart Wireless starter kit includes any combination of five or more wireless pressure, temperature, DP level, DP flow, vibration, or pH transmitters and discrete switches together with a secure, robust Smart Wireless Gateway. Also included is AMS® Suite predictive maintenance software, which delivers powerful diagnostic information from the wireless devices and Wireless SNAP-ON™ for AMS Suite; making wireless field network design easy and flawless. SmartStart™ Services include a full network health assessment to ensure robust communications, plus verification of device functionality and output to the user’s Modbus, OPC, Ethernet or other communications system.
No site surveys, no front end engineering design, or special tools are required to implement a wireless network using the kit, and everything can be installed and commissioned within minutes. Users can easily add additional devices to the self-organising mesh network, which is infinitely configurable.
Reese Borel, process control specialist at PPG Industries Chemical division comments, “The Emerson networks are easy to set up, easy to configure, and reliable. They just run.”
Hundreds of Emerson customers across all industries have implemented Smart Wireless, which allows them to touch plant areas that had previously been financially or physically impossible to reach with conventional, hard-wired devices. Wireless helps them collect new predictive intelligence data to protect assets, improve process monitoring and control, and boost health, safety and environmental compliance.
Proven ideal Smart Wireless applications include monitoring the vibration of critical rotating equipment, collecting trend data on asset performance, monitoring bearing and lubricant temperatures, finding cold spots in steam lines, preventing spills, and monitoring emissions, safety showers, and pressure relief valves.
Visit www.EmersonProcess.co.uk/SmartWireless for customer reference and application information.
