Yokogawa Participates in Hannover Messe 2011

The Yokogawa booth

Hannover Messe 2011 was held April 4 - 8 in Hannover, Germany, with over 6,500 companies from 65 countries exhibiting their technologies, products, and solutions in 20 halls. This is the world’s largest industrial fair, and it is believed that this year’s event generated momentum for industries and will contribute to economic growth.
This year, industrial automation exhibitors were located in halls 8 to 10. Yokogawa’s latest products and solutions, including ISA100 compliant wireless devices, were on display at the following locations:

Field Communication Lounge, an exhibition space shared by the Fieldbus Foundation, HART Communication Foundation, PROFIBUS & PROFINET International, and FDT Group
The Wireless Pavillion’s Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI), where ISA100 compliant multi-vendor wireless sensor networks were on display
The Micropelt booth. This company is a supplier of energy harvesting devices that can be used with wireless devices.

Field Communication Lounge

Yokogawa displayed HART devices and FieldMate in the HART section of the lounge, a PROFIBUS device on the PROFIBUS multi-vendor demo-wall, and a remote I/O solution in the PROFIBUS section. Our latest FOUNDATION fieldbus products and solutions including an ISA100 wireless sensor network were shown in the Fieldbus Foundation section. And in the FDT Group section, we exhibited FieldMate with a direct connection to FOUNDATION fieldbus and HART devices and an infrared connection to an ISA100 device.


PROFIBUS	HART	FDT	FOUNDATION fieldbus

WCI-ISA100.11a

To promote its ISA100 wireless technology, Yokogawa participated in a demonstration of ISA100 multi-vendor interoperability in the WCI section of the Wireless Pavilion. FAST/TOOLS was used to visualize the seamless operation of three networks using gateways from Nivis, Honeywell, and Yokogawa along with some 15 devices from Honeywell, Yokogawa, Azbil, Gastronics, General Electric, and Flowserve. Part of the demonstration focused on the interoperability of tools provided by various vendors that were connected via infrared adapter ports with a large display screen.


The WCI section of the Wireless Pavilion	Multi-vendor interoperability

Energy Harvesting -Micropelt

Micropelt GmbH of Germany has developed an energy harvester that makes use of temperature differences (such as between a process pipe and the surrounding environment) to power devices. This emerging technology could be used to replace or extend the lifetime of the batteries in wireless devices. Yokogawa displayed a prototype of an ISA100 compliant EJX device alongside the Micropelt energy harvester.

Prototype of an EJX with energy harvester