Communication infrastructures in industrial automation: The case of 60 GHz millimeterWave communications

Wireless sensor networks for industrial automation applications must offer timely, reliable, and energy efficient communications at both low and high data rate. While traditional communication technologies between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are sometimes incapable to efficiently achieve the aforementioned go...

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Published in2013 IEEE 18th Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Athanasiou, George, Weeraddana, Pradeep Chathuranga, Fischione, Carlo, Orten, Pal
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.09.2013
Subjects
Automation
Logic gates
Process control
Production facilities
Sensors
Wireless communication
Wireless sensor networks
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Summary:Wireless sensor networks for industrial automation applications must offer timely, reliable, and energy efficient communications at both low and high data rate. While traditional communication technologies between 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are sometimes incapable to efficiently achieve the aforementioned goals, new communication strategies are emerging, such as millimeterWave communications. In this overview paper, the general requirements that factory and process automation impose on the network design are reviewed. Moreover, this paper presents and qualitatively evaluates the 60 GHz millimeterWave communication technology for automation. It is argued that the upcoming 60 GHz millimeterWave technology brings an enormous potential and can influence the design of the future communication infrastructures in factory and process automation.
ISSN:1946-0740
1946-0759
DOI:10.1109/ETFA.2013.6648096