RESEARCH ON ENERGY EFFICIENT AND FLEXIBLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRY

Signals and Systems Group, Uppsala University, Researchers: Anders Ahlén, Markus Eriksson, Steffi Knorn and Tomas Olofsson

Automatic Control, KTH, Researchers: Karl Henrik Johansson, Henrik Sandberg, Erik Henriksson

ABB Corporate Research Sweden, Contact Person: Mikael Gidlund

Supported by VINNOVA

Project Description

The aim with this project is to develop energy efficient, flexible and robust methods for wireless communications, tailored to measurement and time-critical control in the process industry. The goal is to obtain new and smart solutions for measuring, communication and networking.

Outline

We will focus on the following issues:

WP1: Radio measurements at the ISM bands in industrial environments
WP2: Development of tools for smart network deployment
WP3: Dynamic coordination of network topologies for control systems
WP4: Wake-up radio for event based control
WP5: Demonstration and verification

Publications:

PhD Thesis by Erik Björnemo

PhD Thesis by Markus Eriksson