A method of wireless monitoring system connection to distributed control system

Abstract

A method for monitoring point-of-safety stations in a process plant is disclosed. The method includes disposing a wireless gateway device on a roof top of the process plant above a control room of a distributed control system (DCS) in the process plant, disposing wireless field devices on the roof top to form a wireless mesh network, communicatively connecting the wireless gateway device to wired DCS equipment in the control room, communicatively connecting, using at least the wireless mesh network, the wireless gateway device to each of the point-of-safety stations, wirelessly transmitting, via the wireless mesh network, a status signal from each of the point-of-safety stations to the wired DCS equipment, and performing, in response to the wired DCS equipment receiving the status signal, a corrective action to enhance safety of the process plant.

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