| This thesis studies three major issues that affect deployment of wireless network in Industrial Plants for monitoring and control. Many benefits are acquired by using wireless communication systems in industries such as financial saving, safer for maintenance, and easier diagnosing. The First issue is to assess suitability of wireless technologies for industrial networks. This thesis evaluates WPAN (IEEE802.15) and WLAN (IEEE802.11) as Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi and SP100 are candidate networks. The Second hurdle is to characterize the industrial environment from radio wave propagation aspects. Extensive measurements are done in Hot Strip Mill and resulting Impulse responses are analyzed. The Third issue is of performance of candidate data transmission formats to determine data rates and ensuring bit error rates. |
