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How can you make an old building smart?

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Written by Deepan Patel, Industry Manager- Infrastructure

New features alert!

With Niagara 4.9 recently released, I have some new innovative features that are now available from our Infrastructure solutions to share with you. Don’t take these solutions only for Building Automation projects, we can do so much more with Niagara such as Email/SMS alerts, Data Logging, HTML5 autogenerated pages, visualisation engine, etc. Speak to me today and I can explain how!

  1. Our ILC 2050 controller now offers via its Shell environment, the ability to create IP Static Routes. For those networking experts this reduces the requirement of a Layer 3 switch. Now that’s a game changer!

2. Improved CPU load performance with the latest firmware release.

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Go wireless in Ex areas

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Written by Dave Hall, Industry Manager-  UK Process

Getting process signals back from instruments on plant to the controller via copper cables can be an expensive and time consuming exercise, particularly if the instrument lies within an Ex or Exd area.

In my experience, while discussing applications with project engineers working in various industries –particularly in the water industry–  the cost and time involved for contractors to dig trenches and lay cables is increasing and takes long periods of time to complete and test.

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Top Five Tips for Industrial Wireless Applications

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Written by: Mark Harries, Business Development Manager- I/O and Networks.
To discuss your application in more depth please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at mharries@phoenixcontact.com or if you would like to speak to me in person please ring my mobile on 07717 335 477

1. Planning

If you are unsure of the best wireless product to use then I strongly suggest you download our free Wireless Network Planner tool. This helpful software is free to download and with the aid of a wizard takes the user through the best product to select in a step by step way.

Download the software  –    You can then download the demo version from here.

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