The Industrial Wi-Fi Shop Podcast

Jul 04 2024 56 mins 2

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Wi-Co event
- Event was held in Chapel Hill NC on June 12th
- Lots of great presentations
- 2 hour hands on industrial wireless lab
  - Participants got to physically wire up 24v power supplies and the corresponding industrial radios
  - Full configuration lab followed the physical wiring
- Great people there from all over NC and even the Washington DC area!
- https://wi-co.org/

Wi-Fi 6 comes to Industrial radios!
- Will the expanded spectrum (6GHz) find a home in the industrial universe?
- While spectrum use is up in the air, I know the enhanced stability of the ax protocol is sure to make a difference
- Phoenix Contact skipped Wi-Fi5 all together
  - Phoenix Contact WLAN 1020 and 1120 series
- Prosoft also skipped Wi-Fi5
  - Just released the ELXM-SW6, a Wi-Fi6 wireless bridge
  - Looking to release full Wi-Fi6 AP by Q4 2024
  - Adding 6 GHz early 2025
- Siemens is transitioning from Wi-Fi5 into Wi-Fi6
  - Siemens SCALANCE WAM763-1
  - Siemens SCALANCE WUM763-1
- Aunex AMC2X8-A-SL-WK8
- How will Wi-Fi6 affect radial coax? (“leaky coax”) Protocol level
- Customers demanding WiFi6/newer features. Actually, pushing for WPA3

Trends:
- Industrial IoT trends/predictions
  - Increasing importance on
    - Condition monitoring & predictive maintenance
    - Sensor advances and innovations
  - Digital Twins
  - Fog Computing
    - “This technology relocates intelligence to the edge of the network, where the machinery exists. This enables real-time control as well as enhanced security and greater manageability. It’s easy to see how fog computing in IIoT should become standard practice throughout the industry.”
  - Largest manufacturer of industrial wireless devices worldwide (in descending order)
    - Emerson (over 10% themselves)
    - Honeywell International (Honeywell & Siemens combined are another 10%)
    - Siemens (Honeywell & Siemens combined are another 10%)
    - ABB
    - GE
    - Eaton
    - Cisco
    - Yokogawa
    - Rockwell Automation
    - Advantech
    - Arris
  - Top industrial verticals for wireless (in descending order)
    - Chemical
    - Oil & Gas
    - Pulp & Paper
    - Electric Power
    - Water & Wastewater
    - Metallurgy & Mining
    - Food & Beverage
    - Pharma & Biotech
    - Then everyone else
  - Worldwide, Chemical, oil & gas and the Pulp & Paper industries are the three largest consumers of Industrial Wireless Devices which are responsible for about 38 percent of Industrial Wireless Device consumption.
  - Largest markets for industrial wireless devices (in descending order)
    - North America (S., Mexico & Canada)
    - Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Russia and Turkey)
    - Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam)
    - South America (Brazil, Argentina, Columbia)
    - Middle East and Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa)