Wireless Welcome in Manufacturing

摘要

But now entering the industrial wireless field is an innovative company out of Israel called CoreTigo that could change a lot of this. At the center of its products is IO-Link Wireless-a wireless technology developed for factory automation applications. "We worked as part of the IO-Link consortium to create this deterministic, cable-grade wireless product that offers a level of reliability on par with the quality of wired IO-Link," says Gabi Daniely, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at CoreTigo. IO-Link Wireless reportedly provides a deterministic latency of up to 5msec with a high reliability (1 e-9 Packet Error Rate) that is similar to IO-Link Wired, a million times better than other wireless protocols such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee. This level of reliability enables IO-Link Wireless to claim that it is perfectly suitable for industrial automation both for motion control and monitoring. CoreTigo notes that IO-Link Wireless is designed as a deterministic protocol. It is based on time and frequency slots and guarantees that each data packet will be delivered within a bounded delay.