Practical vs. Simulated Results of ISA100 Physical Layer

ISA100.11a is developed by International Society of Automation specially designed for Industrial wireless sensor networks. The main features of this standard are low power consumption, real time fast data transfer, scalability, security, reliability, co-existence with other network architectures and robustness in harsh industrial environment.ISA100 uses many layers for security and integrity of the system. This standard uses IEEE 802.15.4 standard in its physical layer which operates on 2.4 Ghz band and can support data rate of up to 250kbps. This paper compares experimental values with the simulated results on physical layer. Experimental results are conducted in Shedgum GOSP -3 Plant, Saudi Arabia. The simulated results are obtained from matlab using the same configurations and compared with each other. This paper takes into account received signal strength (RSSI) and packet error rate (PER).