Unlike in traditional systems, wireless sensors can be installed easily in a production line without extending cables and electricity. This enables collecting and processing high speed simultaneous data from a specific node by gathering critical information such as temperature of the goods, static and dynamic orientation of the materials, moisture, electromagnetic field emitting and so on. Thus based on locally sensed parameters, a sensor network provides a global view of the monitored area.
By using Indefia'a “wireless network” device integrated with a sensor, provides industrial facilities to manage energy, inventory and advance control over manufacturing processes. Traditional sensors and feed-back agents for production lines are usually hard to install or integrate due to expensive and difficult wiring or data coverage. On the other hand these agents or sub-components mostly lack of processing power and memory to transmit high speed simultaneous data and thus creating big obstacles and lack of performance in a manufacturing process.
This system has an important impact in industrial applications such as monitoring the health of semiconductor fabrication equipment and controlling the leakage on a pipeline. In the same way sensor networks plays a critical role for monitoring to predict failures and schedule maintenance or replacement to avoid costly manufacturing downtime. By deploying wireless sensor networks, reducing equipment failures through continuous monitoring, low installation cost, and elimination of costly manual equipment monitoring. These developments mostly results lowering manufacturing costs, thus lowering prices on consumer products as well as resulting in less global warming and pollution.
Advance research and studies are made on how to utilize these sensors in different production lines are co-operated with University of Stuttgart IFF –specializing in factory automation technologies– .
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