Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

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Design Challenges and Objectives in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

Johan Åkerberg, Mikael Gidlund, Tomas Lennvall and Krister Landerns

ABB AB, Corporate Research

Mats Bjökman

Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design, and Engineering

CONTENTS

4.1    Introduction

4.2    Applications and Requirements for Industrial Automation

4.2.1    Targeted Applications

4.2.2    Requirements

4.2.3    Design Objectives

4.3    Research Challenges

4.3.1    Safety

4.3.2    Security

4.3.3    Availability

4.3.4    Real-time Performance

4.3.5    System Integration and Deployment

4.3.6    Coexistence and Interference Avoidance

4.3.7    Energy Consumption

4.4    Conclusions

References

4.1    Introduction ...