Industrial Wireless Technology

Wireless offers an easy, fast and cost-effective way to increase your reach and gain real-time, intelligent data. These non-intrusive, self-organizing and self-powered networks can be deployed in minutes and easily integrated into existing systems.

 Wireless solutions feature less cabling, faster commissioning and calibration-free devices, reducing installation time and costs by over 50% and minimizing the need for site surveys, equipment, engineering and training.

Process condition status reporting is often done periodically through time-consuming manual rounds, which can jeopardize safety and result in inaccurate reporting. For hazardous environments, Emerson’s wireless solutions can monitor areas previously inaccessible. 

 Wireless monitoring provides process health and safety information and environmental alerts, which help you mitigate occupational and environmental risks, reducing safety incidents and improving regulatory compliance and reporting.

To operate sites safely and securely, you need a reliable stream of timely data. With self-healing mesh technology, you can count on Emerson’s wireless networks to ensure 99.99% data reliability. The network automatically finds the best communication paths and keeps your data flowing and available to the right people at the right time.

With always-on, layered security, Emerson network devices employ industry-standard security protocols to effectively protect your process performance and data.

Wireless offers visibility to detect problems before they occur. You can proactively prevent abnormal situations and reduce safety and security risks with a wireless solution that offers insight into irregular conditions and shifts in process variables.

Emerson’s easy-to-implement, cost-efficient and robust wireless products are designed to withstand challenging process environments and continuously provide accurate, reliable data, transforming your business from being reactive to proactive.

Effortlessly implement or expand network infrastructure with Emerson’s scalable wireless products and solutions. Our leading-edge technology allows you to integrate wireless capabilities based on highest priority needs with no wireless training required.  

Once installed, seamlessly adjust or expand your network. Connect via LAN to existing host systems with native integration to Emerson’s Distributed Control Systems, DeltaV™ and Ovation™. The gateway interface uses industry-standard protocols.

Open standards include, IEC 62591 (WirelessHART®) and 802.15.4 radio technologies for wireless field networks, IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi for wireless plant networks, and WPA2 and NIST Standard FIPS-197 encryption for security.

 The HART® Communication Foundation developed the standards for WirelessHART, and the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee established the IEEE 802.11 set of standards for (WLAN) communications.

 Emerson combines its industry-leading wireless network with Cisco's network architecture.

Our wireless technology products and solutions are designed to keep your networks safe and your plant and business data protected and secure. 

 At the field network level, robust, multi-tiered, always-on security is provided through advanced, standards-based encryption, authentication, verification, key management, and anti-jamming techniques.

 At the plant network level, security is fundamental to the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and the standards-based Cisco Self-Defending Network solution.

To maximize performance time, energy efficiency is key to the development of every Emerson wireless device and network component.  Our designers make power a priority, so you benefit from advanced SmartPower™ capabilities, including fast device wakeup times, low-power electronics and energy scavenging technologies.

 Emerson’s predictive maintenance software, AMS™ Suite: Intelligent Device Manager, can be configured to signal battery replacement needs for clear insight into device power status.

Wireless field networks use self-organizing mesh networks to achieve greater than 99% data reliability. Devices serve as network connectors while the gateway automatically finds the best communication paths. When obstructed, the gateway reroutes the signal.

 Self-configuring plant network, Cisco® Aironet 1500, allows access points without network connection. The managed mesh network of Cisco’s Wireless Control System is a centralized platform for WLAN planning, configuration and management. 

Emerson’s solution is not a top-down or bottom-up model. Our gateways, devices, access points and software use wireless communication standards, rigorously tested to work seamlessly with existing process technology, so you can begin with your top priority.

 That means you can build a sensor network at the field level or set up plant-level wireless access points. This scalable feature allows you to start small and grow coverage or applications without investing in more infrastructure.

Use the most proven technology that is right for your applications. All Emerson wireless devices, gateways, access points and software use wireless communication standards and have gone through rigorous coexistence testing to insure seamless integration. The flexible, scalable wireless infrastructure integrates to existing host systems and enables wireless mesh network deployment with reliable, continuous data to monitor measure points in challenging areas.

Improve productivity and safety for your people and plant. Wireless plant networks enable business and operation applications that improve personnel safety and productivity, such as mobile workforce, safety mustering, and video monitoring. Wireless plant solutions leverage industrial Wi-Fi technologies and seamlessly integrate with the wireless field network.

Emerson offers design and installation services to ensure appropriate wireless technology selection, standards compliance and optimum network design to meet best engineering practices and operational performance requirements. While not required for wireless solutions, a professional site assessment with our engineers is available for successful implementation. With SmartStart™ services, experienced technicians ensure devices and networks are properly installed, commissioned and configured.