Wireless communication in automation

Author

Bradac, Zdenek ; Fiedler, Petr ; Cach, Petr ; Vrba, Radimir

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng. & Commun., Brno Univ. of Technol., Czech Republic

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

659

Abstract

The paper shows the challenges associated with attempts to utilize Bluetooth communication interface for automation purposes like control and data acquisition. The paper describes major challenges, selected approach, first tests, first experiences with Bluetooth on Linux. and first prototypes of embedded devices used for testing. Moreover the paper discusses some specific challenges associated with utilization of wireless communication techniques (focused to Bluetooth) in automation. Finally the paper presents ideas (formal methods) that could be used to analyze, and improve reliability of such system, and approach (time triggered approach with clock synchronization) that could be used to improve the deterministicity of wireless communication channels.

Keywords

Bluetooth; control engineering computing; data acquisition; decentralised control; human computer interaction; network operating systems; peripheral interfaces; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; BlueZ software package; Bluetooth communication interface; HCI interface; Linux; RS-232 interface; USB interface; automation; clock synchronization; control and data acquisition; embedded devices; formal methods; hierarchical decentralized control system; local sensor station; personal area network; time triggered approach; wireless communication; Automatic control; Automation; Bluetooth; Clocks; Communication system control; Data acquisition; Linux; Prototypes; Testing; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2003. ICECS 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 10th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8163-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301871

Filename

1301871