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Does any one have experience using wireless ethernet for data transfer using DH+, modbus or OPC?
I am considering a 4.3 km wireless ethernet segment between a field office and compressor station. An A-B SLC 505 would be installed at the
compressor. I'm thinking it should be possible to integrate critical data back to RS-View or similar at the field office over wireless ethernet.
At the unattended compressor station there are a number of displays for the compressor control and station control. Rather than duplicate these back at the field office, I would like to bring these back over the wireless ethernet using either PC Anywhere, webclient or terminal server technologies.
If the "box" that gets installed at the compressor station has OPC server capability, I may consider integrating the critical data to the field office HMI using OPC (if it has client capability). I would like to also bring condition based monitoring data back to our data historian (Honeywell PHD) OPC client data collector. (I am trying to avoid bringing non-critical data into the control system HMI just so it can be shuffled on to the data historian.)
One of the advantages of getting wireless ethernet to the compressor station is that maintenance personnel can connect to our maintenance system and the data historian. (Citrix and HTML based so fairly low bandwidth requirements) I also see that we should be able to use the ethernet connection for remote maintenance.
Any comments on this strategy are appreciated. Again, anyone with real world wireless ethernet experience please speak up.
I am considering a 4.3 km wireless ethernet segment between a field office and compressor station. An A-B SLC 505 would be installed at the
compressor. I'm thinking it should be possible to integrate critical data back to RS-View or similar at the field office over wireless ethernet.
At the unattended compressor station there are a number of displays for the compressor control and station control. Rather than duplicate these back at the field office, I would like to bring these back over the wireless ethernet using either PC Anywhere, webclient or terminal server technologies.
If the "box" that gets installed at the compressor station has OPC server capability, I may consider integrating the critical data to the field office HMI using OPC (if it has client capability). I would like to also bring condition based monitoring data back to our data historian (Honeywell PHD) OPC client data collector. (I am trying to avoid bringing non-critical data into the control system HMI just so it can be shuffled on to the data historian.)
One of the advantages of getting wireless ethernet to the compressor station is that maintenance personnel can connect to our maintenance system and the data historian. (Citrix and HTML based so fairly low bandwidth requirements) I also see that we should be able to use the ethernet connection for remote maintenance.
Any comments on this strategy are appreciated. Again, anyone with real world wireless ethernet experience please speak up.