Siemens' Simatic ET 200pro IWLAN

Oct. 8, 2009
Simatic ET 200pro IWLAN delivers wireless connectivity from any distributed I/O station.
WIRELESS I/O Simatic ET 200pro IWLAN delivers wireless connectivity from any distributed I/O station. Based on IEEE 802.11 WLAN standards, the wireless design supports deterministic industrial point coordination function (iPCF) for critical industrial Ethernet communications using standard Profinet protocol. Wireless radio frequency is selectable for either standard 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz and includes support for IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/h/e/i transmission standards.  The maximum wireless data transmission rate is 54 Mbits/sec with a typical send cycle time of 32 msec.