The Wireless Control Bus: Enabling Efficient Multi-Hop Event-Triggered Control with Concurrent Transmissions

Event-triggered control ( ETC ) holds the potential to significantly improve the efficiency of wireless networked control systems. Unfortunately, its real-world impact has hitherto been hampered by the lack of a network stack able to transfer its benefits from theory to practice specifically by supporting the latency and reliability requirements of the aperiodic communication ETC induces. This is precisely the contribution of this article. Our Wireless Control Bus ( WCB ) exploits carefully orchestrated network-wide floods of concurrent transmissions to minimize overhead during quiescent, steady-state periods, and ensures timely and reliable collection of sensor readings and dissemination of actuation commands when an ETC triggering condition is violated. Using a cyber-physical testbed emulating a water distribution system controlled over a real-world multi-hop wireless network, we show that ETC over WCB achieves the same quality of periodic control at a fraction of the energy costs, therefore unleashing and concretely demonstrating its full potential for the first time.

The Use of ZigBee Wireless Communication Technology in Industrial Automation Control

With the accelerating process of world industrialization, countries pay more attention to industrial modernization. In order to solve the problems of traditional control technology and system with low accuracy, high energy consumption, and high delay in industrial automation control and the difficulty in adapting to the new industrial production process, the new industrial automation control system is discussed and studied. The industrial automation control is studied, and a new monitoring system is designed for automation control by using ZigBee wireless communication technology. The design of the system data communication scheme is completed by the in-depth study and summary of ZigBee wireless communication technology. The hardware structure and software structure of ZigBee wireless communication module are designed, and the wireless monitoring system using ZigBee is established. Taking the production workshop of a pharmaceutical factory as the monitoring object, the working stability and data transmission efficiency of the model are tested. The experiment shows that the ZigBee wireless transmission model has lower temperature and better stability than the wired transmission system in the working process. Compared with the traditional wired control system, the temperature of ZigBee wireless control system is lower when it works. The difference between the highest temperature and the lowest temperature is 0.1°C. In the overall work flow, the system temperature is lower than that of the wired control. ZigBee wireless control has good stability. Subsequently, the method of manually setting obstacles is used to test the effectiveness of data transmission. The experiment found that in the absence of barrier, the maximum effective transmission distance was 40 meters, and the packet loss rate was very low, which could ensure the timeliness of data. Therefore, this system can be applied to industrial automation control. The research results can provide some reference for the design of new control systems in other industrial control fields. The improved system can also be applied to other industries. ZigBee is a short-range technology for wireless sensor networks, and it is a two-way communication technology with low power consumption, low data rate, and low cost. It can be applied to automatic control and remote control. This provides a platform for wireless networking and control of small and cheap devices. ZigBee will not compete with connection technologies such as Wi-Fi. Meanwhile, it will greatly stimulate the progress of the industrial market.

Wireless Control Modelling for Overhead Crane

Radio frequency (RF) remote controllers are widely used in manufacturing, construction, transportation, and many other industrial applications. Cranes, drills, and miners, among others, are commonly equipped with RF remotes. Installation wired communication takes a long time to set up the connection as compared to the wireless connection. The installation becomes very lengthy and complex if we want to get connected with each router. For the same reason, for a system expansion to add more device(s), the re-routing process to connect this new device(s) to the network can be avoided. Instead, with the wireless connection, we don’t have to perform all the setup again. The network can be accessed with the authorized passcode. Radio-controlled devices are ubiquitous in all sorts of industries. In fact, many cranes are now being equipped with radio-controlled technology, which is revolutionizing the way crews move materials around a warehouse or job site. In the steel manufacturing industries, the wireless crane control has proven to assure. more advantage compared to the disadvantage. Through the surveillance and monitoring of wireless remote control for crane that done at AJSB, Prai, Malaysia.

Enhancement of Wireless Lighting Control System

The rapid increase in wireless technology has enormously increased wireless control of lighting system in residential, commercial, and industrial settings of many countries across the world. However, this system lacks troubleshooting interface, making it very difficult for the identification of faults in the lighting system. This paper therefore seeks to improve on the wireless lighting system by incorporating into the system two types of sensors such as the current sensor and light dependent resistance (LDR). The current sensor is functioned to determine fault in power supply, whilst the LDR determines fault due to damage in the AC lamp. The proposed system was first simulated with Proteus software to observe the set objectives. A successful simulation resulted in the implementation of the system. The results discussed prove that incorporating wireless technology with current sensor and LDR will make troubleshooting easy and effective when the need arises.