AirSprite Technologies Makes Debut at ISA Expo.Company reveals strategy for family of wireless sensor see mote. infrastructure products for industrial automation MARLBOROUGH, Mass. -- AirSprite Technologies, a developer of wireless sensor infrastructure systems for industrial automation, will roll out its plans at ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. Expo for a family of products that will deliver dramatic improvements in operational efficiency, plant utilization, and employee productivity. AirSprite will build its wireless sensor infrastructure products on two emerging standards - WirelessHART[TM] and ISA100. The company's first products will connect directly to HART devices and require no changes, will enable the installation of industrial wireless networks that work with existing systems, and will be upgradeable to comply with future standards. AirSprite will initially target several major industries, including oil and gas, chemical, power, and water and wastewater treatment. "Globally, wireless technology has had a significant impact on the way business works, but it is still fighting to make inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ into the industrial world," said Paul Sereiko, AirSprite CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The WirelessHART and ISA100 standards will open up the industrial automation market to wireless sensing solutions and improve the efficiency of plant operations in the world's most critical industries. We see 2008 as the year of industrial wireless." AirSprite is aiming its products at a potentially huge market. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the ARC Advisory Group, there are more than 55 million instruments installed worldwide, 23.5 million of which are HART-based. Approximately 85 percent of these HART devices are unable to continuously share with existing monitoring or management systems the intelligent maintenance and performance data they capture. ON World forecasts that by the end of this decade, more than 40 million wireless nodes will be installed in the industrial automation segment. Unleashing the Power of Trapped Data AirSprite's initial products will unleash the power of the trapped data by freeing it from existing HART devices and integrating it in real time with systems such as plant asset management, condition-based maintenance, and plant control. The result - plant operators will have a new weapon to improve uptime and efficiency. Demonstrating the compelling need for these capabilities, in July, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times reported that, "Mechanical breakdowns... have created a bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU in domestic energy supplies, helping push up gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by prices 50 cents (during 2007)... A third of the country's 150 refineries have reported disruptions to operations this year, a record according to analysts." AirSprite's mission is to deliver products that enable plant managers to significantly reduce unplanned interruptions in production. "Users are not getting the valuable advantages of maximizing asset availability and utilization if they are ignoring device related diagnostics," Hesh Kagan, Director, Wireless Programs at Invensys said. "What AirSprite is developing allows wired HART devices, without hardwired diagnostic connections, to participate in integrated Asset Performance Management and add real value to bottom line performance." "The recent release of a ratified rat·i·fy tr.v. rat·i·fied, rat·i·fy·ing, rat·i·fies To approve and give formal sanction to; confirm. See Synonyms at approve. HART specification that includes WirelessHART provides a new and potentially low-cost way for manufacturers to capture online diagnostic information from millions of existing field devices. Process manufacturers will be looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. products and solutions that can deliver this information to them economically and reliably," said Harry Forbes, Senior Analyst with ARC Advisory Group. Optimizing Return on Assets Return on assets (ROA) Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the past 12 months by total average assets. Result is shown as a percentage. ROA can be decomposed into return on sales (net income/sales) multiplied by asset utilization (sales/assets). A key aspect of AirSprite's products is that they will work with installed intelligent devices. It is important that plant operators are able to take advantage of this new technology without the cost and risk of having to upgrade their automation infrastructure, replace their field devices, or comply with proprietary systems. "Our goal is to enable plant managers to find and fix a problem before they have a costly problem," Sereiko said. "We will provide a wireless sensor infrastructure that accomplishes this economically and with minimal disruption to day-to-day operations." AirSprite will be exhibiting at Booth 1971 at ISA Expo, October 2-4 in Houston and is participating in the ISA100 Wireless demonstration in Booth 1970. In addition, CEO Paul Sereiko will present two papers: * "Wireless Retrofits in Process Industries for Enhanced Plant Asset Management," Tuesday, October 2nd at 2:00pm in the WINA WINA Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance WINA WAP Interim Naming Authority (mobile networks) WINA Whitetail Institute of North America WINA Webb Institute of Naval Architecture (Glen Cove, New York) Wireless & Networking Exchange. * "What Process Control Professionals Think about Wireless: Analysis of an ISA SP100 & Control Magazine Survey," Wednesday, October 3rd at 3:30pm in the ISA100 Wireless Theater. AirSprite plans to distribute its products through several channels, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. (VARs), systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. and direct. About AirSprite AirSprite Technologies, Inc. is developing a line of standards-compliant, wireless infrastructure products for industrial automation that will deliver dramatic improvements in operational efficiency, plant utilization, and employee productivity. Designed to connect directly to installed instruments, AirSprite products unleash the powerful data that resides in intelligent field devices, integrating it with plant and enterprise applications. http://www.airsprite.com |
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