April 2011
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Standardizing the Industrial Wireless World
Adoption wireless in industrial applications has been much slower than the adoption curve for enterprise markets.
This gap is primarily due to 3 main factors.
Lack of a reigning standard: There is a standards war between WirelessHART and ISA100 camps. Even though there is a convergence effort between these standards underway, there are several OEMs and end-users that are adopting a wait and...
November 2010
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Rockwell Automation Fair 2010
The 2010 Automation Fair in Orlando, FL was certainly large-scale and well attended by any Automation show standard. Various Rockwell Automation ecosystem partner companies displayed new products to customers and other partners. For many OEMs, this is the biggest showcase event for the year. For SoftDEL, it presented a good opportunity to reconnect with Rockwell members and to get a general...
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SoftDEL’s Aerodel Director awarded “Best of...
Aerodel Director – The industry’s first industrial wireless network management system has been awarded the “Best of Wireless Sensor Network & RFID 2010” at the IDTechEx Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting & RFID conference in Hong Kong.
“We are excited & honored that IDTechEx has selected Aerodel Director as the Best of WSN/RFID for 2010. Aerodel Director will allow plant...
October 2010
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IEC 61850 and Smart Grid interoperability
IEC 61850 facilitates substation automation and communication as well as interoperability through a common data format. The standard is one of several being recommended by NIST as essential to uniform and interoperable communication systems throughout the electricity grid. It enables interoperability between new devices, technologies and is the common interface as the grid evolves.
SoftDEL has...
September 2010
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Importance of visualizing your wireless sensor...
Wireless brings with it a set of its own challenges, primarily linked to network management and security. These challenges are exaggerated in a multi-vendor, multi-technology hetereogenous environment. Industrial wireless deployments are heading to be multi-vendor, multi-technology for the long run as a mix of WirelessHART, 802.11 and properietary technologies vie for different application...
August 2010
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Power, Performance and Platform Independence, 3...
OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is the next generation OPC standard providing a cohesive, secure and reliable cross platform framework for access to real time and historical data and events. With OPC (UA), standard industrial applications developers will have the freedom to choose a development platform.
Powerful new features, Methods and Programs Existing OPC COM specifications give more attention...
Importance of clear requirements & Service Level...
IT industry in India is entering another interesting phase – on one hand the effect of global melt down is not fully over yet – job market on the other is all abuzz! I say so as although inputs emerging from across the world suggests a recovery, Indian IT industry largely being service oriented sees changes – chill or thaw, with a lag of quarter or two. We are obviously not neutral to these...
July 2010
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Tablet computing for Industrial applications
As tablet computing make a grand splash in the home & enterprise market, there will inevitably be curious and tech-savvy controls engineers and IT managers that will want to test operational capability for Industrial applications as well. Tablets though being cool, there is yet to be a good case made for them replacing laptops and PDAs on the market today. However, it is not always the...