ISA Summit
April 2008
News
The ISA100 Wireless Solutions Summit will be held Sunday and Monday, 18–19 May 2008, at the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH.
Attendees will be able to network with the most renowned industrial wireless experts in the world, understand the technologies that are the key to successful wireless implementation in industrial applications, hear the experiences of end users as they evaluate wireless options and benefits, learn about the progress being made on the ISA100 Universal Family of Wireless Standards, and see the products and system solutions coming to the marketplace.
The Summit will provide an ISA100-WINA Tutorial and presentations covering wireless topics like security, wireless use in a nuclear facility or refinery, the Wireless Compliance Institute, and more. Presentations include:
* Trustworthy wireless – security without wires.
* People and asset tracking and identification – industrial challenges and solutions.
* The wireless refinery.
* ISA100 – the end user's perspective.
* One end-user's vision for the future of wireless industrial networks and obstacles to overcome.
* ISA100.11a, Release 1 – a look under the hood of the first of the ISA100 family of universal wireless industrial standards.
* Wireless in a nuclear facility.
* The ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute – providing assured interoperability for the ISA100 family of universal industrial wireless standards.
The ISA100 Wireless Solutions Summit is co-located with the Manufacturing IT Forum, 20-21 May, 2008, also located at the Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH. Visit www.isa.org/isa100wirelesssummit to register or learn more.
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