A wireless extension of Profibus DP based on the Bluetooth radio system

✍ Scribed by Daniele Miorandi; Stefano Vitturi

• Book ID: 103999960
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 277 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1570-8705
• DOI: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2004.01.001

✦ Synopsis

Wireless networks are beginning to be employed in industrial automation systems as extensions of field networks (fieldbuses), in order to link devices which may not be equipped with a wired connection. In this way, all the benefits deriving from the use of a fieldbus may be maintained. This paper investigates a wireless extension of Profibus DP, one of the most popular fieldbus standards, based on the Bluetooth radio interface. After a description of how the data link layer services of Bluetooth could be used to implement the Profibus DP functions, we present a theoretical network performance analysis. The results obtained are then validated by means of numerical simulations.