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Industrial Wireless Modems Come of Age

From B&B Electronics Manufacturing Co. Inc.
 

 

The advantages of proprietary RF are reliable applications, stability, convenience and security. Most significant, these are backed up by the history of successful installations in a wide variety of industrial settings.

"Experts" predicted just a few years ago that serial technology for industrial I/O and Modbus would disappear. Today we find the use of serial technology, including wireless applications, has not decreased. Instead, applications, amounts and types of serial equipment produced have accelerated.

From Tesla and Marconi's electric coils and arcs to the youngster's model car that speeds or stops at the nudge of the controls, we've had a fascination with wireless control and communication.

And with the explosion over the last 25 years of wireless from cell phones to Internet, interest in industrial uses has grown. This could easily afflict anyone from refinery or public works managers to manufacturing techs with equipment monitoring and control needs.


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B&B Electronics Manufacturing Co. Inc. - Class-1 Division-2 Wireless Fuel Tank Gauging
As fuel consumption increases, oil and gas companies are trying to make the supply chain more efficient. A simple application to automate is tank gauging at fuel terminals. Many technicians still... (read more)
Moxa Inc. - 1-port advanced serial-to-Ethernet, Modbus gateway
The MB3170 and MB3270 are designed to integrate Modbus TCP, ASCII, and RTU networks of all types and sizes. Devices running different Modbus protocols can communicate with each other in almost any... (read more)
Digi-Key Corporation - Free2Move’s Bluetooth® Serial Plug at Digi-Key
From Digi-Key, Free2Move's Uncord replaces serial cables with a communication link based on Bluetooth wireless technology. Plug the Uncord unit into the 9-pin D-SUB connector of an RS-232 device and... (read more)
Advantech Corporation, Industrial Automation Group - Class 1, Div 2 Cert Device Servers/Modbus Gateways
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Moxa Inc. - 24+2G-port Gigabit managed Ethernet switches
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B&B Electronics Manufacturing Co. Inc. - Coal Delivery SCADA System & Serial Radio Modems
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Moxa Inc. - 2-port Universal PCI serial over fiber boards
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