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Wireless Sensors in Industrial Time-Critical Environments

  • Explains how to provide operation time guarantees in heterogeneous distributed control systems with wireless sensor components
  • Describes how to integrate wireless sensors and wireless sensor networks into standard industrial systems
  • Offers advice on planning industrial distributed control systems

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 1-6
  3. Distributed Control System Operations

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 19-26
  4. Industrial Protocols and Planning Considerations

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 27-40
  5. Scheduling of Wireless Sensor Networks

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 41-50
  6. Performance and Debugging

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 83-97
  7. Application Scenario: An Industrial Case Study

    • José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado
    Pages 99-122
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 123-135

About this book

This book introduces the fundamentals of DCS, and shows how to include wireless technology in their design while guaranteeing the desired operation characteristics. The text also presents insights and results gained from extensive practical experience in implementing and testing systems within a specific industrial setting. Features: examines the operations that the DCS implements, covering human-machine interfaces, diagnostics and maintenance interfaces, and controllers; discusses industrial control system and wireless network protocols; reviews scheduling in wireless sensor networks; describes a latency model for heterogeneous DCS with wired and wireless parts, that predicts monitoring, command, and closed loop latencies; explains how to plan operation timings systematically; introduces measures and metrics for performance monitoring and debugging, and describes how to add these to a system; presents experimental results to validate the planning approach, based on an application test-bed.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wireless Sensors in Industrial Time-Critical Environments

  • Authors: José Cecílio, Pedro Furtado

  • Series Title: Computer Communications and Networks

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02889-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-02888-0Published: 09 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37854-1Published: 03 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-02889-7Published: 19 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1617-7975

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-8433

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 135

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Control and Systems Theory

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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