First WirelessHart products for the process industry.
The Siemens Industry Automation Division has for the first time developed products for WirelessHart communication. The new family comprises two transmitters, a gateway to Industrial Ethernet plus software, as well as an adapter to allow the integration of other process instruments into a WirelessHart network.
Both the new Sitrans P280 transmitter for pressure measurement and the Sitrans TF280 transmitter for temperature feature a WirelessHart interface and a graphical display with backlight function. They are easy to operate via pushbuttons. An integrated battery supplies the transmitters with power for more than five years, with the exact number of days remaining being shown. All other Siemens process instruments without WirelessHart interfaces can be integrated with the Sitrans AW200 adapter. The adapter contains an integral battery which can also power a process instrument. If an external power supply is used, up to four conventional process instruments can be connected to the WirelessHart adapter simultaneously.
The new IE/WSN-PA LINK gateway manages the WirelessHart network with all its nodes and establishes the connection to the Simatic-based automation and control systems via Industrial Ethernet. The gateway is easy to configure via the integrated Web interface. Transmitter and adapter are commissioned and serviced using the Simatic PDM (process device manager) which provides a simple, graphical and interactive quick-setup. With the Sitrans MDS (maintenance diagnostic station) software, diagnostics data can be displayed transparently in a maintenance station, for example the wireless process instruments and the devices connected to the Sitrans AW200 adapter.
The new WirelessHart product family is the result of collaboration by Siemens with the HART Communication Foundation (HCF). As an HCF member, Siemens played an important role from the beginning in defining WirelessHart, contributing its wide-reaching experience in process automation and wireless communication.
The WirelessHart components are the newest element of the Industrial Wireless Communication portfolio from Siemens, designed for a wide variety of sectors and covering a diverse range of industrial requirements with respect to bandwidths, power consumption, safety, availability, distance and speed.
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