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WingTip, Canary Labs and Kepware Introduce the hBOX Wireless Historian
The First Low Cost, High Performance, Store and Forward Historian Appliance
Richland, WA, Nov 15, 2011 – WingTip LLC, in combination with Canary Labs and Kepware Technologies, today introduced the hBOX, a wireless severe duty historian appliance. The hBOX is the first product on the market to combine low cost with enterprise class historian performance in a ready to use appliance. A member of the PlantMESH™ 802.11b/g/n Ethernet wireless mesh network system, the hBOX is ready for outdoor or indoor use.
The primary goal in developing the hBOX was to provide an operational historian appliance that could be located directly adjacent to the equipment being monitored, rather than using a centralized historian that attempts to capture data over a remote Wide Area Network (WAN) connection, according to David McKay, WingTip Director of PlantMESH Product Development.
"Most of the geographically distributed industries, such as PetroChem, Mining and Utilities need to collect data from remotely located equipment. In many cases, the connection to the remotely connected equipment is bandwidth limited and can have reliability issues," McKay said.
Ideally, data loss could be eradicated by collecting the data locally, then synchronizing the data to the central historian, a scenario also known as 'Store and Forward' data collection.
The PlantMESH™ solution has four modules
MeshCORE™ is the starting point for the system; it serves as the supervisory controller and is also an access point, providing wireless client connectivity up to 1,500 feet via standard 802.11 b, g and n, with a dedicated 5.8 gigahertz (GHz) backhaul for transporting traffic between other PlantMESH modules;
MeshStation™ modules provide the ability to extend the network up to 1,500 feet, include the dedicated 5.8Ghz backhaul, and two can be connected via an Ethernet cable to continue operation through barriers;
MeshLINK™ modules extend the network to remote facilities, providing a point-to-point high bandwidth link of up to four miles between MeshLINK units;
MeshNODE™ modules provide the ability to connect any standard wired Ethernet device to a PlantMESH network, and can be utilized to remove dead spots and to provide virtual local area network (VLAN) termination;