Ethernet at the Sensor Level

摘要

It's an exciting time for the factory automation sensor and process control instrumentation markets as Ethernet evolves for wider use in manufacturing. With two-wire industrial Ethernet products becoming available, Ethernet communication becomes viable even down to the sensor level. Over the last decade, the adoption of Ethernet-based industrial networks has grown rapidly. While traditionally used to collect multiple inputs and outputs from the field level into the controller level and above, there has always been a desire for more data-even all the way down to the sensor level.