 Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN) in Industrial Automation
Market Assessment for Monitoring and Control Applications
The industrial automation market periodically undergoes major shifts as new technologies improve the functionality and economics of industrial monitoring and control systems. The introduction of wireless sensor networking (WSN) represents just such a sea change. While proprietary P2P and P2MP wireless technologies have been used in a limited fashion since the 1980s to integrate a few hard-to-wire field devices into an overall wired control system, standards-based WSN promises to dramatically expand the number of devices in a plant that can be connected wirelessly. In contrast to P2P and P2MP connections, WSN utilizes self-forming, self-healing mesh networking to enable field devices to be deployed cost effectively without the need for site surveys or specially trained field technicians to manually configure directional antennas. Emerson Process Management estimates that WSN enables cost savings of up to 90% compared to the deployment of wired field devices.
However, WSN will not be appropriate for all industrial automation applications. This report analyzes: the market opportunity for WSN in industrial deployments, detailing where it will find traction (and where it will not); the implications of the key standards efforts including Wireless HART, Sp-100.11a, and “industrial” ZigBee; the implications WSN adoption will have for the market; and the key players involved in making WSN a reality in industrial automation.
What Does This Report Answer?
- What is the TAM opportunity for WSN in industrial applications?
- What factors influence the TAM opportunity for WSN in industrial applications?
- How does the TAM opportunity for WSN vary by region?
- What is the size of the current industrial automation market, and what will its size be in 2012?
- How many 802.15.4 ICs shipped into industrial automation applications in 2006, and what are the growth trends for this market segment through 2012?
- What are the key use-cases for WSN technology in industrial deployments, and what use-cases are not likely to see near-term adoption of WSN technology?
- What are the key drivers and inhibitors impacting the market opportunity for WSN in industrial automation?
- How is WSN technology likely to be deployed over the period from 2006 through 2012?
- How will WSN technology intersect with current industrial control systems?
- What implications does WSN as an "overlay" technology, rather than integrated into existing control systems, have on the market?
- What are the key technical requirements for WSN in industrial use cases?
- What are the three major efforts to standardize WSN in industrial applications?
- How do those efforts relate to one another, and what are the individual prospects for widespread adoption for each of the standards?
- Who are the key players involved in the market for WSN in industrial automation?
Who Needs This Report?
- 802.15.4 IC vendors
- WSN module vendors
- WSN system vendors
- Industrial automation field device and system vendors
- Software framework vendors targeting the industrial market
- Securities and investment analysts
- Venture capitalists
- Consultants targeting industrial automation applications
- End-user companies looking to deploy WSN in industrial applications
Section 1.
Executive Summary
- 1.1 Scope of Study
- 1.2 Market Overview
- 1.3 Market Forecast
Section 2.
Market Issues
- 2.1 Industrial-automation Market Large but Mature in North America and Europe
- 2.2 Proprietary Wireless Technology Has Been Used in Industrial Automation Since the 1980s
- 2.3 Wireless Sensor Networking Represents a Paradigm Shift
- 2.4 WSN Use Cases in Industrial Automation: Direct Process Monitoring and Indirect Condition Monitoring
- 2.5 WSN Also Finds Traction in Condition-monitoring Use Cases
- 2.6 WSN Difficulties in Process Control and Factory Automation
- 2.7 Market Drivers for WSN Technology in Industrial Automation
- 2.7.1 More Monitoring, Less Cost
- 2.7.2 More Data, Available in Near Real-Time
- 2.7.3 Preventative Maintenance Benefits
- 2.7.4 Easier Regulatory Compliance
- 2.7.5 Standardization Efforts Provide Assurance, Create an "Ecosystem Effect"
- 2.8 Market Inhibitors for WSN Technology in Industrial Automation
- 2.8.1 The Highly Conservative Industrial Market
- 2.8.2 WSN Technology Presents Some Challenges
- 2.8.3 Early Stage Market Blues
- 2.8.4 Cost Cutting Less of an Issue Outside North America and Europe?
- 2.9 The Future and Implications of Industrial WSN
- 2.9.1 The Gestation Period: 2007 to 2008
- 2.9.2 Keeping the TAM in Perspective
- 2.9.3 WSN Integration into Existing Industrial-automation Systems
- 2.9.3.1 Why Dust, Millennial Net, and Sensicast Are Quick off the Starting Block
- 2.9.3.2 Coming into Their Own: Arch Rock, Crossbow, MeshNetics, SynapSense, and Tendril
- 2.9.4 A Network in Parallel
- 2.9.4.1 Apprion, Tridium, and VI Agents to the Rescue?
- 2.9.4.2 What About Big Enterprise Middleware and Database Vendors?
Section 3.
Technology Issues
- 3.1 Overview of Industrial-automation Systems
- 3.2 Requirements for WSN Technology in Industrial Applications
- 3.2.1 Robustness
- 3.2.2 Low Latency
- 3.2.3 Deterministic Transmission
- 3.2.4 Low Power Consumption
- 3.2.5 Security
- 3.3 Current Proprietary Wireless Product Offerings
- 3.3.1 Narrowband Radios Often Used in Licensed Spectrum
- 3.3.2 FHSS Radios Highly Resistant to Interference
- 3.3.3 DSSS Radios with Frequency Agility Are the Basis of Future Wireless Industrial-automation Standards
- 3.4 Current and Emerging Standards in Industrial WSN Technology
- 3.4.1 IEEE 802.15.4: the Core Standard
- 3.4.2 Wireless HART: Focused and Fast
- 3.4.3 ISA SP-100.11a: Everything for Everyone
- 3.4.4 ZigBee: Struggling for a Seat at the Industrial Table
Section 4.
Key Industry Players
- 4.1 Accutech Wireless Instrumentation
- 4.2 Apprion
- 4.3 Arch Rock
- 4.4 Atmel
- 4.5 Crossbow Technology
- 4.6 Digi International
- 4.7 Dust Networks
- 4.8 Echelon Corporation
- 4.9 Ember
- 4.10 Emerson Process Management
- 4.11 Freescale Semiconductor
- 4.12 Helicomm
- 4.13 Honeywell Process Systems
- 4.14 ISA SP-100
- 4.15 Integration Associates
- 4.16 Jennic
- 4.17 Lantronix
- 4.18 MeshNetics
- 4.19 Millennial Net
- 4.20 National Instruments
- 4.21 Oki Semiconductor
- 4.22 Opto 22
- 4.23 RadioPulse
- 4.24 Sensicast Systems
- 4.25 Silicon Laboratories
- 4.26 Software Technologies Group
- 4.27 SynapSense
- 4.28 Tendril
- 4.29 Texas Instruments
- 4.30 Tridium
- 4.31 Uniband Electronic Corporation
- 4.32 VIAgents
- 4.33 Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance
- 4.34 ZigBee Alliance
- 4.35 ZMD
Section 5.
Market Forecasts
- 5.1 Process and Discrete-manufacturing Plants by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.2 Process- and Factory-automation Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.3 Process-automation Wired Field Devices by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.4 Process-automation WSN TAM, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.5 Process-automation 802.15.4 IC Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.6 802.15.4 IC BOM ASP, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 5.7 Process-automation 802.15.4 IC Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
Section 6.
Company List
Section 7.
Acronyms
Scope of Study
Sources and Methodology
Notes
List of Tables and Charts
- Process-automation 802.15.4 ICs by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-industry Plants by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Discrete-manufacturing--industry Factories by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-automation Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Factory-automation Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-automation Wired Field Devices by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-automation WSN TAM, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-automation 802.15.4 ICs by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 802.15.4 IC BOM ASP, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process-automation 802.15.4 IC Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Industry Plants by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Discrete Manufacturing Industry Factories by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Automation Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Factory Automation Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Automation Wired Field Devices by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Automation Wireless Sensor Networking TAM, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Automation 802.15.4 IC Shipments by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- 802.15.4 IC ASPs by BOM, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
- Process Automation 802.15.4 IC Revenue by Region, World Market, Forecast: 2006 to 2012
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