Wireless Hart

Teams members:
inh Thi Hin
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Thch Minh Dng
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Nguyn Trung Qun 41102770

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INTRODUCTIONS
NETWORK ARCHITICTURE
LAYERS SPECIFICATIONS
Physical Layer
Data-Link Layer
Network Layer
Transport Layer
Application Layer
SUPERFRAME

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Introductions
Wireless HART is a Wireless Mesh Network
Communications Protocol.
Existing HART applications (control systems, PLC's,
maintenance tools, and asset management applications,
e.g...)

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Network Architecture

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Network Architecture
Wireless HART Field Devices (WFD):
* The most common type of network device
* Sensor/Actuator/Both
* Connected to the process or plant equipment
* Combines wireless communications With traditional HART
communication Field Device capabilities

Handheld:
Host application residing on a portable device. Its aim is the configuration,
monitoring, calibrating and maintenance of devices. It can be connected to
the Wireless HART network or the plant automation network.
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Network Architecture

Gateway:
(GW) Divided into virtual Gateway and the Access Points
(AP) (1 or more). It is the link between the host
applications, Network manager and the wireless HART
network. Responsible of buffering, protocol conversions
and clock source. One gateway can support up to 80
devices

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Network Architecture

Adapters:
They are the devices providing backwards compatibility by
adding wireless HART capabilities to wired HART devices. It can
provide wireless access to one or more devices.

Routers :
Devices capable of routing and forwarding packets in the
network.However, they are not connected to the industrial process
(sensors or actuators).They are required when wireless
connectivity needs to be improved
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Network Architecture

Network manager:
Responsible

for configuration of the network

Scheduling communication between Wireless
HART devices (e.g., configuring super frames)
Management of the routing tables
Monitoring and reporting the health of the
Wireless HART Network
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Network Architecture

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Layers Specifications

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Layers Specifications

Physical Layer:
Maximum

data rate (250 kbps)

Operating Frequency (2.4 - 2.48 GHz)
Transmit Power is 10dBm (Nominal) adjustable in discrete
steps (e.g., 0dBM and others)

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Layers Specifications
Data-Link Layer:
Has

long and short addresses

Additional Wireless HART DLPDU specifies a byte which
identifies Wireless HART packet types
Bus Arbitration with TDMA using timeslots organized into
super frames as 100 timeslots per second
Acknowledgement packets include timing information to
continuously synchronize TDMA operation across entire
network

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Layers Specifications
Network Layer:
Upstream

and downstream graph routing

Provides redundant path routing for maximum reliability and
managed latency

Supports Broadcast, multi-cast and uni-cast

transmissions

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Layers Specifications
Transport Layer:
Provides un-acknowledged and end-end acknowledgement
of communications.
Acknowledged transmissions include automatic retries to
confirm successful data transfer.
Also supports TCP-like reliable block transfers of large
data sets.

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Layers Specifications
Application layer:
It defines various device commands, responses, data types
and status reporting.
In WirelessHART, the communication between the devices
and gateway is based on commands and responses.
The application layer is responsible for parsing the message
content, extracting the command number, executing the
specified command, and generating responses.

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Superframe

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Superframe

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Superframe
All devices must support multiple superframes
At least one Superframe is always enabled while
additional superframes can be enabled or disabled
Slot sizes and the superframe length are fixed and form
a network cycle with a fixed repetition rate
SuperframeSlot=(Absolute Slot Number)
%Superframe.NumSlots

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