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Application (continued)
Industrial Wireless Communication
WirelessHART
IE/WSN-PA LINK
Retrofitting for diagnostics and maintenance
For this application, wireless adapters are looped into the
4-20 mA interface or screwed directly onto the HART device.
The acyclic HART message frames are transmitted by radio
between IE/WSN-PA LINK and a wireless adapter. Without
affecting the operation of the plant, the wireless adapter
modulates the acyclic HART message frames to the 4-20 mA
interface or extracts them from the 4-20 mA interface.
The IE/WSN-PA LINK collects the data of all wireless adapters
and transfers it via Industrial Ethernet to the diagnostics and
maintenance station.
If greater distances between the IE/WSN-PA LINK and the
monitoring station are to be spanned without cabling, this can be
implemented by means of Industrial Wireless LAN with the
access points and client modules of the SCALANCE W family.
Retrofitting of plants for diagnostics and maintenance
Controller without
HART support
Remote I/O station
w/o HART support
SITRANS
MDS
OS
IE/WSN-
PA LINK
SITRANS
AW200
Industrial
Ethernet
Industrial Ethernet
PROFIBUS
Wireless
HART
IEEE 802.11
4–20 mA
4–20 mA
4–20 mA
G_IK10_XX_30348
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Design
• 2 x 10/100/1 000 Mbit/s RJ45 ports, electrical (no integral
switch; interfaces can be used, for example, for continuous
connection to the plant network as well as the temporary
connection of a PC)
• 1 x screw terminal for connection to Modbus RTU via RS485
• 1 x screw terminal for the 24 V DC connection
• Rugged metal enclosure with IP65 protection for use
outdoors, also in hazardous zone 2
• Mounting: wall or mast mounting (vertical);
U-bolts for mast mounting are included in the scope of
delivery.
Product versions
• With integral, non-detachable antenna
• Redundancy function and with N connector for connection of
an external antenna
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Function
WirelessHART
The IE/WSN-PA LINK establishes on the radio side an inter-
meshed wireless sensor network for communication with wire-
less field devices (e.g. transmitters). The data from the wireless
field devices is received by the IE/WSN-PA LINK and transmitted
via Industrial Ethernet to the connected systems. The supported
wireless network is an open wireless network specified by the
HART Communication Foundation (HCF) in accordance with the
WirelessHART (HART V7.1) standard.
On the field device side, the IE/WSN-PA LINK requires field
devices that support WirelessHART (HART). Existing field de-
vices can be integrated by means of wireless adapters into the
WirelessHART communication. To this end, the adapters are
looped into the 4-20 mA interface. In addition, as many as four
standard HART field devices with external power supply can be
connected to the adapter in multidrop mode. Individually con-
nected devices can be operated with the battery of the adapter.
The adapter wirelessly transmits all data and process values of
the connected devices. The advantage of this solution is that
tried and tested devices can continue to be used.
Industrial Ethernet
Via the Ethernet interface the IE/WSN-PA LINK supports the use
of the HART OPC server and the Modbus TCP protocol.
Configuration
The configuration is web-based, without additional software, and
performed from the PC. By means of the web user interface it is
also possible to display the device states and measured values
of the WirelessHART devices.
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