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convergence–or not. that’s the Question
Much has been made of the “end-user revolt” earlier this year at the ISA100 meeting in
Orlando. The group of large end users, in the sincere and correct belief that they were
also representing the views of smaller end users in general, told the major automation Walt boyeS
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vendors that they were tired of wireless wars, and they wanted a sincere convergence [email protected]
effort between WirelessHART, now IEC62591, the WIA standard, if possible. One of the re-
and ISA100.11a-2009. This revitalized the spondents to my ISA100 survey said, “Techni-
ISA100.12 committee, which had been estab- cally, there is no issue. Both base specs were
lished to explore convergence. developed under the same premise. One is con-
Recently, I did two surveys. One, of end us- strained only by the applications layer that was
ers, found that over 50% of them felt that the adopted. The base networking is almost the
wireless standards war had either delayed a same. The better answer is—can the supplier
decision on implementing wireless sensors or community ever come together to meet the us-
made them investigate alternatives to wireless. ers expectations?”
In another, of members of the ISA100 commit- It can if end users insist. Most end users ig-
tee about whether they really believed in con- nored the Fieldbus Wars, wound up with an
vergence between IEC62591 WirelessHART eight-headed hydra of a standard, and then they
and ISA100.11a, 23% said “yes,” 34% said didn’t adopt the products because there were
“maybe,” and 43% said “no.” so many standards they couldn’t decide. The
So we have a serious problem with the adop- same thing can happen to wireless.
tion of wireless field devices in the process in- There are differences between ISA100 and
dustries. Now that the Chinese WIA standard IEC62591 WirelessHART, but on balance, they
has been approved by IEC, we are very close do the same things, and WirelessHART already
to having four standards. The drive of the has over 1400 end users who’ve installed sys-
ISA100.11a team to produce a new version of tems. Even though many end users are doubt-
ISA100.11a-2010 could actually produce a ful of the value of the stranded data in existing
fifth standard, since the ISA100.12 effort is HART transmitters, most observers feel that
to converge WirelessHART with the existing once that data is easy to extract and use, it will
ISA100.11a-2009, which was never approved be seen as extremely valuable. Yes, it is possible
by ANSI, and which will be different than to extract the data and transmit it over a non-
ISA100.11a-2010. WirelessHART network—but the majority of
The worst case scenario is that wireless field end users want something simple to use, and
devices may get relegated to the marginal ap- they may perceive that as “too hard to do.” The people in
plications where they have always been used: Some end users and vendors are working
rotating machinery, remote transmitters in very hard to make convergence work. But con- control here are
pipeline SCADA systems and environmental vergence isn’t going to happen unless the end
monitoring systems, and some others. If end us- users require it. the end users,
ers start considering alternatives to wireless in Come on, you know what it will take. So ei-
process plants, there are two: wired HART with ther do it, or get happy with the idea that there but convergence
multiplexers and Foundation fieldbus. My sur- will be five standards for you to select from and
vey revealed that at current pricing for wireless bet your career on. isn’t going to hap-
devices, those options are finding great favor.
The people who are in control here are the pen unless they
end users. But they have to stand up, stick to-
gether, and insist on an honest convergence require it.
effort between WirelessHART, ISA100 and
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