Industrial - SCADAMESH™

Industrial Telemetry, Inc. Presents SCADAMESH™

SCADAMESH™ is a revolutionary concept and a patent-pending product for the Industrial and Water and WasteWater worlds. It is based on the patented REALMESH™ radio. We call it “SCADAless SCADA”.

ITI has combined a patented PLC on a Chip™ with an external processor and memory, and mounted them on the same line powered board with a patented REALMESH™ radio, in an industrial DIN housing.

A MESH (Multi-point Enhanced Signal Handling) radio is one which combines transceiver capabilities with “repeater” functionalities in a single device, while supporting connectivity to analog and/or digital input or output. The result of deploying a series of REALMESH™ radios is that each supports 4 analog in, 2 analog out, 4 digital in or out and “helps” the others get control messages from point of origin to destination without the need for out-dated separate repeaters and routers, or having to go back to a base station or SCADA system with every message, unless desired. SCADAMESH™ utilizes true peer-to-peer MESH networking, with every device a repeater and transceiver. When a new REALMESH™ radio joins the network, it actually strengthens the overall performance of the entire MESH radio network by adding yet another series of supported IO points and an extra repeater/router to enhance network throughput performance. Future products from ITI will involve, and support, a higher ratio of MESH radio-to-IO.

By adding the PLC on a Chip to the same board, efficiencies in space and execution are obtained. By adding a processor and memory, external to the PLC or the radio, we achieve our patent-pending ability to store the PLC’s ladder logic source code at the point of the PLC, while it executes its compiled code version. Because we can interleave object code changes to the on-board PLC by using our SCADAMESH™ local processor, the changes to the PLC code can be made in a few seconds, thereby minimizing process downtime.

Further, by storing the companion PLC ladder logic source code in the local memory, we can poll that on-board memory without interfering with any PLC processes, and obtain a current Validated copy of the existing source code. Since this polling can be done in real time from wherever there is secure access to the system, it eliminates errors and guesswork as to how a given PLC is programmed. SCADAMESH™ also supports immediate PLC code changes if desired. With our sophisticated I/O Mapping software, we do everything from overview to drill-down, and reprogramming on the fly.

Bringing A Patented Wireless MESH Radio Technology to the Industrial World