PLC Based Industrial Automation Applications Using Short Range Wireless Technologies

Abstract

Bluetooth, ultra-wideband (UWB), ZigBee, and WI-FI are four popular wireless standards for short-range communications. Specifically, ZigBee network is an emerging technology designed for low cost, low power consumption and low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPAN) with a focus on the device-level communication for enabling the wireless sensor networks. In this paper, after a brief overview of the four short-range wireless standards, the developed ZigBee platforms have been presented for wireless sensor networking applications. Moreover, design issues for ZigBee industrial applications and the experimental implementation have been demonstrated via a multi-hop tree network. The objective of this project is to control an Industrial control system through wireless technologies. This overcomes the disadvantages of previous technologies which involves wired communication. The sensor network senses the data and sends the data through a wireless medium and the data is received by the controller section. According to the signal received by the controller it routing the value to the Actuator Section, the actuator connected the controller will be activated through wireless medium.

Existing System

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Architecture

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CONTROLLER UNIT