New wireless technologies for power plant instrumentation offer significant cost savings when compared to traditional wired networks. The value of this cost savings is especially relevant in the ...

Two similar wireless standards—WirelessHart and ISA 100.11a—are competing for dominance as the enabler of smart instrumentation and all its promised benefits. Some users, however, are seeking ...

False. WirelessHART is safe. But why? A wide range of tools make this so. Encryption—Communications are always encrypted by a WirelessHART network, which employs a 128-bit AES encryption system ...

The great disadvantages of new technology are that its commercialization involves a high degree of risk and its future holds an even higher level of unpredictability. Wireless industrial automation ...

The HART Communication Foundation (HCF) has submitted the WirelessHART Communication specification (HART 7.1) to the International Electrotechnical Commission for approval as a publicly available ...

As wireless becomes an increasingly popular communication method across industry, interest is growing in bringing legacy sensor devices into the wireless realm. Here’s one way to do it. Outside of ...

Following a spate of recent cyberattacks in industrial environments, Jalal Bouhdada of Applied Risk discusses the future of manufacturing and why security, especially for the WirelessHART protocol, ...