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July 13, 2007
Emerson Expands Smart Wireless Solutions Family
By Anuradha Shukla TMCnet Contributing Editor
Emerson Process Management has announced the expansion of its Smart Wireless solutions family. The company has added native communications capability for integration of wireless field networks to the ROC-800-Series Remote Operations Controller.
The addition of wireless field networks enables oil and gas operators to improve asset predictability, manage remote assets more profitably, improve maintenance efficiency and effectiveness, and deliver cost reductions in asset construction time.
Emerson points out that wireless technology is popular in the oil and gas industry where production and distribution systems can span hundreds of kilometers. Emerson's remote operations controllers communicate with instrumentation at wellheads, pipelines, and other remote sites. Since secure and robust wireless technology centralizes access, users can improve safety and minimize risk of dangerous environments.
The enhancement of the ROC800 adds wireless functionality to Emerson’s Smart Remote Automation Solutions. This further extends the predictive intelligence of PlantWeb digital architecture into remote oil and gas locations.
Thanks to the new Smart Wireless Communication capability, the ROC800-Series Remote Operations Controller can communicate directly with any mix of up to 30 wireless temperature transmitters or wireless pressure transmitters over the self organizing mesh field network.
When used for monitoring process variables that may be located up to 200 meters away from the RTU, this provides significant cost benefits. In fact Smart Wireless monitoring points enable up to 90 percent installed cost reduction as compared with wired installations.
The company further explains that field instruments that use the wireless self-organizing network approach can be installed to bring in diagnostic information from points that could not be monitored earlier because of cost constraints. Low cost incremental monitoring can benefit many applications in these patches.
Emerson’s ROC800 with Smart Wireless Communication offers predictive intelligence that increases process availability and eliminates unnecessary field trips for data retrieval, configuration changes, and asset profiling.
Smart Wireless helps users prevent unplanned downtime by enabling online monitoring with deep-dive diagnostics and notification of potential problems. Additionally, it extends asset lifecycles through proactive asset management. Moreover, scheduled maintenance is now linked to actual asset performance to target the highest value equipment.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
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