The 802.11n Industrial Hotspot Family
The 802.11n Industrial Hotspot family of high-speed wireless Ethernet devices delivers high performance for critical automation and process control applications including high-speed wireless remote I/O, controller messaging, HMI, drive, SCADA networking, video and mobile worker infrastructure. The EtherNet/IP-enabled feature provides an automated way for the control devices to extract and monitor important wireless diagnostic data.
The EtherNet/IP-enabled object is directly accessible from a ControlLogix PLC, CompactLogix using an included Add On Instruction (AOI). The AOI automatically generates controller tags containing the diagnostic data, which may be monitored by the main routine thus providing the program with information such as the health of the wireless network, wireless connections and network availability. Benefits include high integration into the ControlLogix, CompactLogix architecture which means quicker detection of communication problems. Quick detection of deteriorating communications enables the controller program to manage production better, utilize redundancy and quickly notify the need for maintenance. Other benefits include reduction of controller programming time with the automatically generated tags, speeds operator interface screen development to include wireless network status and key metrics, and Industrial Hotspots show in RSWho tree for quicker programming and diagnostics.
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