The Fieldbus Foundation’s FOUNDATION High Speed Ethernet Remote I/O (HSE-RIO) preliminary specification is now available to its membership for review.
This specification is part of the foundation’s Wireless and Remote I/O initiative. According to a release, it defines the first in a series of interoperable gateways (a smart RTU) to bring control I/O (both analog and discrete) back to plant automation systems over an international standard, high-speed network.
Both the H1 (31.25 Kbps) and HSE (100 Mbps) provide a distributed function block capability within the FOUNDATION automation architecture. Here, the HSE serves as a larger pipeline offering increased speed and throughput.
The Fieldbus Foundation notes that the WIO development expands these capabilities and this is achieved by the establishment of open, non-proprietary specifications for a wired HSE backhaul network, a wireless HSE backhaul integrating various wireless gateways, and an interface to wireless field device networks.
Enterprises can leverage the HSE-RIO technology to efficiently bring large concentrations of discrete and analog field I/O from modular devices back to the control room using a high-speed HSE connection.
The Fieldbus Foundation’s WIO project can advance utilization of an open, interoperable fieldbus automation infrastructure by incorporating both HSE and industrial wireless applications.
While the Fieldbus Foundation/ISA Cooperation (FIC (News - Alert)) team is preparing specifications for the wireless HSE backhaul to the HSE-RIO gateway, the Wireless Sensor Interface Team is developing specifications for interface of wireless sensor networks to the gateway.
Both the wireless backhaul and wireless sensor interface specifications are now in development.
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Edited by Jaclyn Allard