Wireless Sensor Networking for Industrial Automation

Whether it’s remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, or precision instruments, the innovative MeshScape wireless sensor networking platform lets OEMs of industrial automation offer new-breed solutions that provide:

• Greater control through enhanced monitoring - Extend manufacturing- and process-control systems reliably by continuously monitoring critical equipment and inventory.
• Improved utilization – The MeshScape platform lets your solutions reduce energy expenses through optimized manufacturing processes and remedying inefficient or poorly performing equipment.
• Better efficiency for more uptime - Automate data acquisition from remote sensors to reduce user intervention and provide detailed data to improve preventive/predictive maintenance programs and increase operational efficiencies.

Meeting the Unique Requirements of Industrial Environments

Millennial Net offers a comprehensive platform for OEMs and systems integrators to deploy highly efficient, scalable, self-organizing wireless sensor networking systems. The award-winning MeshScape network system software – using Persistent Dynamic Routing™ – is the foundation of an efficient, responsive, and resilient wireless sensor network. Ready-to-embed hardware modules and assemblies can easily integrate with your gauge, sensor, actuator, or other instrumentation/sensing device to connect and communicate over the MeshScape self-organizing, self-healing network. The networks easily and fully integrate with network-management and applications.

MeshScape is the only wireless sensor networking solution available today that supports the unique requirements of industrial environments:

• Scalability across large facilities – Wireless sensor networks deployed in industrial facilities must be able to scale to hundreds of nodes; only MeshScape has deployed networks of this size in hardened industrial environments.
• Responsiveness in harsh environments – Each facility has a unique set of characteristics and requirements that affect deployment of the sensor network modules. Regulatory requirements may dictate requirements for the housing encasing the sensor node, or special equipment may create RF interference in an area of a building. MeshScape’s highly responsive topology discovery method enables these unique requirements to be addressed.
• Power efficiency for remote deployment – In cases where networks are deployed in remote sites where power is not available, sensor nodes must operate for years on batteries.

New Possibilities, New Markets, New Value

Plant and warehouse managers know the cost of failure is often staggeringly high, which is why they’re looking for innovative new ways to manage processes, control costs, and improve uptime performance.

MeshScape wireless sensor networks provide excellent reliability, power-efficiency, adaptability, and scalability. You can easily embed and integrate low-profile MeshScape modules with your sensing devices throughout a building to form seamless networks. With MeshScape, you can solve problems cost-effectively and create new opportunities to deliver greater value to your customers.

Faster Retrofitting

Retrofitting and retooling factories leads to cost overruns and time-delays from labor-intensive movement of utility wiring. With wirelessly networked sensors, you can relocate sensors quickly and conveniently without intrusive, disruptive, costly, rewiring efforts.

Start with a Reference Kit

The MeshScape Reference Kit contains everything you need to set up a self-organizing star-mesh wireless network. The standard Reference Kit includes five endpoints, three routers, one gateway, API software, and network-monitoring software. Using the API and network-monitoring software, you can prototype your application and evaluate network operation and performance.