Case study: WIRELESSHART vs ZIGBEE network

Author

Habib, Gilbert ; Haddad, Nicolas ; El Khoury, Ralph

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Lebanese Univ., Fanar, Lebanon

fYear

2015

fDate

April 29 2015-May 1 2015

Firstpage

135

Lastpage

138

Abstract

This paper tackles industrial Control Systems where communication between different nodes is accomplished wirelessly. Many advantages can be gained by using the wireless technology. However, this kind of technology uses a non-deterministic algorithm to send the data. This may have a negative impact on the behavior of the control applications, especially on the temporary performance and the dependability requirements that a control system usually has to face. Two types of technologies are studied: Zigbee and WirelessHart. In this paper, we show by simulations and literature that WirelessHart technology fits better than Zigbee technology for industrial requirements.

Keywords

Zigbee; process control; wireless sensor networks; WirelessHart network; Zigbee network; dependability requirements; industrial Control Systems; negative impact; non-deterministic algorithm; temporary performance; wireless technology; Communication system security; Network topology; Packet loss; Protocols; Wireless communication; Zigbee; WirelessHart; Zigbee; industrial systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE), 2015 Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beirut

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5679-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TAEECE.2015.7113614

Filename

7113614