Overview of Industrial Wireless Networks

Throughout the development of analog and digitalization, industrial control systems are rapidly developing in the direction of networking and wireless technology. It is expected that industrial wireless networks (IWNs) will become a key component of industrial control systems. In this chapter, we first introduce the background of IWNs by analyzing the development of industrial control systems and describing the limitations of industrial wired networks and the increasing deployment of IWNs. Afterwards, the fundamentals of IWNs are discussed, including the IWN components, representative communication requirements along with the key challenges to achieve them.