ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute Conducts Successful “Wireless
Plugfest” Confirming the Interoperability of ISA100.11a Registered
Devices
Honeywell, Yokogawa, Nivis, GE,
Yamatake, Fuji Electric and R3 Sensors Participate in Structured
Interoperability Testing Held at NTS Lab
Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina, USA (10 January 2011 ) – The ISA100 Wireless Compliance
Institute (WCI) today announced the success of its recently held
“Wireless Plugfest,” a structured WCI member program conducted
periodically to validate interoperability of wireless products
compliant with the ISA100.11a standard. The event was held in December
2010, at National Technical Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTSC) (NTS)
laboratories in Los Angeles, California. NTS is an independent
third-party engineering, testing and certification company.
The WCI Technical Steering
Committee designed and planned this series of test scenarios to confirm
interoperability characteristics in four functional categories:
Provisioning, Networking, Application Configuration and Data Publishing.
“We were thrilled with the
outcome of the December 2010 WCI Wireless Plugfest and will expand the
Plugfest program on an ongoing basis. Our objective is to improve the
user experience with ISA100 based products and maintain confidence in
our declaration of assured interoperability,” said Andre Ristaino,
managing director of WCI.
Test engineers successfully
demonstrated interoperability of ISA100.11a based manufacturer field
devices, provisioning devices and gateways. The test included
registered devices submitted by suppliers including the Honeywell High
Level Analog Input (HLAI) device, pressure and temperature devices, and
Yokogowa pressure transmitter and temperature transmitters. Using a
structured plan for assessing multiple combinations of network
configurations, devices from participating suppliers were joined to
gateways from Honeywell, Yokogawa and Nivis, Inc., and then configured
to publish data through those gateways.
“We were able to demonstrate
the effectiveness of the WCI technical documentation and the
interoperability of the ISA100.11a devices and profiles,” said Osman
Sakr, CTO of National Technical Systems.
“This was a huge milestone in
validating the technical capability, ease of use and true
interoperability that ISA100.11a can provide to users in the
marketplace. As new ISA100.11a devices pass certification, we will
expand our product testing scenarios to confirm the scalability,
reliability and performance benefits of the ISA100.11a standard,”
continued Ristaino.
The ISA100.11a industrial
wireless networking standard is the first in the ISA100 family of
standards. This wireless mesh network protocol standard ensures that
supplier companies will build interoperable wireless automation control
products. As a result, ISA100.11a device suppliers are able to create,
modify, optimize and scale a wireless network quickly, cost-effectively
and seamlessly. Interoperability provides users the freedom to choose
best-of-breed ISA100.11a field devices, from any supplier, that are
simple to deploy, reliable in their operation and support traditional
and future applications.
Planned additions to the
ISA100 family of standards include support for backhaul functionality,
factory automation and other key-use cases. Details on the approved
standard, the ISA100 roadmap and use-case presentations are available
at www.isa100wci.org.
WCI to Host Webinar Showcasing Interoperability Results
Please join a free WCI
webinar showcasing the results of the WCI December 2010 wireless
Plugfest. The webinar will describe the objectives of the Plugfest, how
it was structured and the results and lessons learned. Presenters
include Jay Werb, WCI technical director and Dr. Penny Chen, principal
systems architect at Yokogawa Corporation. It will be presented on 18
and 19 January 2011.
To register for the webinar, go to: http://www.isa100wci.org/Events.aspx
About the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute
The ISA100 Wireless
Compliance Institute (WCI) is a non-profit industry organization
providing users and developers with market awareness, educational
information, technical support, and compliance for the ISA100 family of
universal industrial wireless standards. The WCI provides real world
feedback from deployment of ISA100 devices and systems to ISA Standards
Committees in order to foster rapid refinement and development of open
industry standards for wireless applications. Institute members include
end users, technology suppliers, research and development
professionals, academia, and other industry consortia and standards
bodies. Early members include Apprion, BP, Chevron, Chongqing
University of Posts and Telecommunications,ExxonMobil, Fuji Electric,
Gastronics, GE, Honeywell, Nivis, Procter & Gamble, R3 Sensors,
Shell, Shengyang Institute of Automation, Yamatake and Yokogawa. More
information about the ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute can be found
online at www.isa100wci.org.
About National Technical Systems
National Technical Systems, Inc. is
a leading provider of engineering services to the aerospace, defense,
telecommunications, automotive and high technology markets. Through a
world-wide network of resources, NTS provides full product life-cycle
support, offering world class design engineering, program management,
compliance, testing, certification, supply chain management and quality
registration. For additional information about NTS, visit our website
at www.ntscorp.com
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