Systems and methods for configuring industrial devices through a secured wireless side channel

A compute device comprising:

• primary communication circuitry configured to communicate through a network with an industrial device of an industrial process plant, wherein the primary communication circuitry is configured to receive configuration data from a master controller compute device, the configuration data indicative of a configuration for one or more operations of the industrial device through the network;
• side channel communication circuitry configured to communicate with the industrial device through a secure wireless side channel that is different from the network;
• and
• circuitry configured to:
• determine the network is unavailable;
• enable, in response to the determination that the network is unavailable, the secure wireless side channel;
• obtain, via the secure wireless side channel, the configuration data from a configuration compute device;
• and
• configure, in response to obtaining the configuration data, the one or more operations of the industrial device.