• If the success of the GSM in no longer to demonstrate, with circa 2 million connected people in the world, it received few industrial applications, strictly speaking. New progress is made possible by the solutions 3G (UMTS) and 3G+ (HSDPA) which increases the throughput, the quality and the diversity of services. However, the offer of wireless communications diversified considerably with the development of the radiocommunications local area networks, operating in free ISM bands (2, 4 GHz and 5 GHz) or in frequencies under licence. Many generic systems are available today: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc. Others are in the validation stage: WiMAX, or will be available later on: UWB.

  • Taking into account the magnitude of the potential request, the ISA develops a new, standard specific to the industrial applications: the ISA 100, whose first version is announced for 2008. Compared to the generic networks, the ISA 100 standard will make it possible to build architectures with a grid (mesh) making it possible to ensure the routing of information packets with redundancy and self-healing in case of default.

  • The HART Foundation has just announced the « WirelessHART » solution, while Honeywell has introduced the « Onewireless ».

  • The future of the network communications in industry is thus clearly directed towards wireless solutions for numerous applications, where until now, either the wired conventional networks or the administrated wireless networks, constituted the only possible answers. A reduction of capital investment and an optimal management of the process, thanks in particular to predictive maintenance, are to be expected.

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