Wireless starter kit

Emerson Process Management has announced the introduction of the Wireless SmartPack Starter Kit, a configurable suite of wireless technologies and services giving users a risk-free way to practical experience with wireless technologies in their own facilities. Emerson's SmartPack comes pre-configured out of the box to immediately form a secure, robust self-organising wireless network which customers can apply to gain experience with wireless without committing their infrastructure.

Historically, customers must commit significant resources for engineering, design, configuration and start-up when trying new technologies. Emerson's Smart Wireless approach embedded in the Wireless SmartPack gives mainstream customers an out-of-the-box network which they can apply anywhere, anytime with very little engineering time required.

Emerson's Wireless SmartPack comes standard with a 1420 Wireless Gateway, a 25-tag licence for AMS Device Manager software, Emerson supplied SmartStart installation services and five wireless instruments which operate as a self-organising network. Users may choose any combination of Rosemount temperature, pressure, level and flow devices, and can choose to increase the number of devices in their Wireless SmartPack up to 100 in total.

A feature of Emerson's Wireless SmartPack is its 'forward compatibility' with the future wireless standard being defined now. To protect user investments, Emerson will provide an upgrade path on all wireless instruments to the future standard.