C6.4 - Wireless Sensor Networks: Implementing Reliable, Simple and Secure Industrial Wireless Solutions
- Event
- SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg - Band
- Proceedings SENSOR 2009, Volume II
- Chapter
- C6 - Energy Harvesting
- Author(s)
- S. Toteda - Dust Networks, Inc., Hayward, CA, USA
- Pages
- 219 - 222
- DOI
- 10.5162/sensor09/v2/c6.4
- ISBN
- 978-3-9810993-5-5
- Price
- free
Abstract
Wireless sensor networking (WSN) has emerged as a major new technology for the industrial market. With the first wave of industry-standard products now available, we are starting to see the full impact of this technology as users move beyond early pilots and begin to deploy wireless sensors in their production facilities.
The promise of wireless to dramatically reduce the deployment cost of sensors in a production facility primarily comes from eliminating cabling and simplified planning. The cost of cabling can wary widely, and ranges from Euro 100/m to Euro 1,000/m, depending on the safety regulations of the plant. Doing away with the wired network signaling and power cables dramatically reduces the planning and administrative overhead of installing a device. But equally as important is the potential for wireless to make it very easy to deploy sensors in places that simply could not be wired before.