Growth projected

June 2008 Data Acquisition & Telemetry

Wireless for process manufacturing set to grow at 32% annually.

The market for wireless devices and equipment in process manufacturing will grow to over $1,1bn in 2012, a growth rate of 32% per year, according to a new ARC Advisory Group study 'Wireless in process manufacturing worldwide outlook'.

The market will also change its character during the period, as new standardised wireless sensing products and hardened wireless local area networks (LAN) penetrate the process market. Deployment of wireless in continuous process manufacturing industries (eg, chemicals, oil and gas, oil refining, electric power, mining and metals) has lagged other manufacturing industries, such as automotive and aerospace, because process plants are often larger and located mainly outdoors, and because the presence of dangerous and potentially explosive materials mandates use of equipment carrying special certifications.

Wireless process sensing is expected to be the fastest growing market segment. Today it accounts for only a small portion of the total market, but according to ARC, it will become the largest segment during the next five years, as the market absorbs a deluge of new wireless sensing products that comply with wireless versions of industrial standards.

Two industrial networking standards, WirelessHART and ISA100, both use the same sensor radio hardware as the ZigBee standard, but with their own software. The driving force for wireless process sensing is its dramatically lower installation cost, which ARC believes will cause the normal change-averse process industries to use it wherever they can, leading to more rapid adoption.

Wireless LAN use will also grow rapidly, spurred by the introduction of new access point products that can safely be installed in the hazardous environments. The longer range and clearer signals of future IEEE 802.11n wireless will also make them attractive to process industry customers.

For more information on this study, visit: www.arcweb.com/res/wireless or contact Jodie Alosso, ARC Advisory Group, +1 781 471 1145, [email protected], www.arcweb.com

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