Process Control - Extending Wireless Process Signals

Analynk's wireless repeater extends your process signal
transmission distance or routes it around obstacles.

The simplicity of bringing a wireless connection to your process control application extends to overcoming one of the challenges that can arise due to extended distance or substantial obstacles between the transmitter and receiver. Analynk provides a repeater that can be strategically placed between transmitter and receiver to extend the overall transmission distance, or route the signal around obstacles that may otherwise degrade the transmission. The data sheet included below describes how easy it is to apply and provides all the technical details.

Contact Analynk with your process measurement and control wireless communication challenges and get get solid practical solutions.

Analynk Model A759 Wireless Repeater from Analynk Wireless, LLC

Process Monitoring and Control - Where You Can Make Good Use of Wireless

Analynk empowers industrial process operators at any scale to bring the functional benefits of industrial wireless communication to their applications. The company provides easy to implement wireless hardware solutions that can be economically applied to even as single data point.

Talk a look at our short video for some application suggestions. Ramp up your ingenuity and develop ideas for your facility or operation. Contact the experts at Analynk for solutions. We enjoy hearing new and creative ideas for meeting process control challenges with wireless.

Industrial Wireless Communications - Think About Where You Can Use It

Wireless communications applications with beneficial impact
are everywhere, Imaginative thinking is needed.

Analynk builds equipment that empowers anyone with an industrial process control application to make signal connections from sensors to controllers or recorders over distances not practically cabled. The cost and available scale of this technology has reached a level where smaller companies can incorporate it into their operations to increase functionality and efficiency. If you have not done so already, it is time to become familiar with the application basics of this technology and start evaluating your operations for ways to beneficially use industrial wireless communications.

In a simplified fashion, here is how you do it.

• Identify what you want to measure. Typical examples include temperature, pressure, contact closure, or anything else for which a sensing or detecting device is available.
• Find the device most suited for your measurement. It will be convenient to use a device providing a commonly used output signal. Examples include 4-20 ma, 0-5 VDC, and others.
• Select the communications band that best suits your application. Short distances, up to several miles, often use 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz. You can also use the cellular network or one of several satellite networks for extended coverage.
• Select a compatible transmitter, like those from Analynk, to convert the sensor output signal into digital form and transmit it across the network.
• Select a compatible receiver, also available from Analynk, to receive the transmitted signal and convert it back into the original signal form. This output signal will connect to your control or monitoring equipment.
• If you need to send a responding control signal back to the remote location, follow the same plan with the transmission and receiving equipment reversed.

The first time you do it, there will be some things to learn, progress may be a little slow. Once your first attempt is completed, you will understand what needs to be done and further implementation will proceed quickly. There are uncountable applications for this technology that can enable your organization to increase effectiveness, broaden the scope of your operation or service offering, and build a more efficient process. Data points that were previously out of reach are now accessible in real time. Knowing the capabilities of industrial wireless will enable you to recognize useful applications throughout your organization.

You can always contact the specialists at Analynk Wireless to discuss your potential applications. They will help you meet application challenges and get connected.

Connecting With Remote Oil Field Installations

Wireless communications can connect remote oil field
equipment monitoring to a central control point

Oil is sought all across the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic. It is the king of commodities, chattered about endlessly on news channels and touching facets of our lives without our ever being aware. Oil is big and serious business, with tremendous sums of money at risk on the prospect of reaping even greater returns.

Like all raw materials derived from the Earth, oil is often discovered in very remote areas with no transportation, communication, or other infrastructure nearby. It is common for producing wells to operate unattended, which saves cost and increases operational risk due to failure or malfunction that may occur on the site. Maintaining efficient and safe operation at the site is not a luxury, but a necessity. Delivering real time data from remote sites to monitoring and decision making centers is crucial to achieving profitable and safe operation at remote sites.

Analynk manufactures transmission and receiving equipment that builds the bridge between remote sites and the home office. From elemental componentry to integrated, ready to run systems, Analynk specializes in wireless communications for industrial process control. Contact us with your wireless challenges. Whether an expansive multipoint, or a single point application, the specialists at Analynk can combine standard or customized products into a practical solution for you.

Outlook for 2016

At Analynk, we are wrapping up a very good year, and extend our sincere thanks to our customers, vendors, and others that have supported our continued growth and success in the industrial wireless communications field.

We brought several new products to the market this year, including some new versions of the Hazardous Area Wireless Access Point Enclosure and our patented Explosion Proof Antenna. The coming months will see the release of some new products we have been working on this past year. Stay connected with us and you will be among the first to know about them.

We hope your year was as good as ours, and wish everyone a safe and happy holiday and prosperous New Year.

Installing Wireless Access Point in Hazardous Area

Model AP320 Wireless Access Point
Courtesy Aruba Networks

In many technical endeavors, industrial process control being one, there are often collisions between what is necessary and what is desired. The incursion of wireless communications into the process measurement and control field has created such a collision between process engineers and IT managers. Granted, it's a cooperative and amicable collision, but a situation that can require the resolution of some incompatible interests.

For a number of reasons, it may be advantageous for the wireless network gear in the process section of a facility to conform to certain standards established for the larger scope of the organization. There can be real benefits to standardizing on particular brands or types of hardware. The tasks involved with back end management of network infrastructure are less complex when all the equipment is of the same vendor and product family. Provisioning, which includes initial setup, long term management, and unit loss management, is simplified when all the units are the same. Process engineers and operators pursue the same goal in standardizing on particular transmitters, valves, or other components that have multiple installations throughout a facility.

Analynk Wireless Access Point Enclosure for
Hazardous Locations

The difficulty arises when the IT team's chosen wireless access point needs to be installed in an area classified as hazardous due to the potential for ignition of flammable or explosive gases and vapors. There is a solution, actually a fairly simple one.

Analynk manufactures enclosures for industrial wireless access points installed in hazardous locations. The current offering accommodates a range of units from Symbol, Cisco, Meru, Aruba, HP, and Motorola, with more models added regularly to accommodate additional wireless access points. Each access point enclosure is provided with UL listed explosion proof antennas, a mounting bracket designed for the target access point, and RF cables to make the antenna connections. Enclosures have penetrations specifically located to accommodate the target access point.

This arrangement allows for the deployment of the organization's preferred wireless access point in the hazardous process area.

Analynk Wireless specializes in industrial wireless communications. Your wireless communication challenges are welcome at Analynk, so make contact and share your application requirements. Combining your process expertise with Analynk's product specialization will produce a positive solution.

Wireless Linkup For Hazardous Gas Monitor

Hazardous Area Gas
Detection Units on Assembly Line
Courtesy Starcom Solar

Analynk Wireless manufactures industrial wireless signal transmitters and receivers to accommodate a broad array of industrial process control applications. The company was selected by Starcom Solar, Inc. as the provider of the wireless communications section for their innovative portable and fixed installation hazardous gas monitoring stations. In addition to transmitter modules, the Starcom monitoring station utilizes Analynk's patented antenna for use in hazardous areas.

The wireless communication capability enables deployment of the monitoring system on mobile units or remote installations. Analynk's standard transmitter range extends up to 20 miles. New versions will soon be available with Iridium, GPS, and GLONASS satellite linkups enabling worldwide signal transmission and reception. Variants include capabilities to transmit a variety of inputs,
including 4-20 ma, switch closure, thermocouple, and RTD.

The Analynk product line of wireless transmitters, receivers, and antennas provides broad capability and is easy to apply and integrate into any installation. You can find out more about the A753 Transmitter in the data sheet included below. Share your signal connectivity challenges with a product specialist and see how easy and effective a wireless solution can be.

Analynk A750 and A753 Industrial Wireless Transmitter and Receiver from Analynk Wireless, LLC