Overview
The information you need is all around you. The challenge is to access it in a reliable, cost-effective way. Dust Networks delivers standards-based wireless sensor networking systems that deliver the reliability, low-power consumption, and ease-of-use required to serve a wide range of industrial applications. Dust Networks’ SmartMesh wireless sensor networking systems enable a new class of wireless monitoring and control solutions – saving time and money on installation, providing greater flexibility, and reaching deeper into operations than possible with a wired system. Dust Networks has overcome the reliability, power consumption, and complexity barriers inherent to legacy point-to-point wireless systems, allowing industrial automation vendors to offer wireless sensing solutions that satisfy both the technical and economic requirements of their most demanding customers. Whether it’s meeting the needs of the plant manager, maintenance supervisor or process engineer, SmartMesh-enabled solutions provide cost-effective access to the information they need to:
Current SmartMesh-enabled solutions are be used in a range of applications including process monitoring, condition monitoring, asset management, environmental, health and safety monitoring, and energy management. Industry-Proven Performance and ROI SmartMesh-enabled wireless solutions are proving to be extremely reliable and easy to use in industrial environments and have record return on investment. Customers including Emerson Process Management and GE Sensing have released pre-standard SmartMesh-enabled products and several other leading vendors are currently completing customer pilots and will be releasing products soon. To date, SmartMesh-enabled systems have been installed in facilities representing the oil and gas, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, wastewater, power generation, steel, chemical, commercial printing, and pulp and paper industries.  “…easier to install and maintain, with vastly superior scalability, but it is also much more cost-effective than previous approaches. Return on investment (ROI) is “considerably less than a year” for the wireless permanent monitoring systems.” said Chip Bennettt,
 Commented Cliff Esmiol, maintenance supervisor for Milford Power. “Especially important was the easy, flexible self-organizing network that could be installed and operational in a very short time.”
 “When Emerson first approached me with their industrial wireless solution, they said ‘We’re plug and play,’ said Tim Gerami, senior design engineer at PPG. "I have to admit I laughed; nothing I’d seen so far was that easy. “But I’m a believer now. Five minutes after installing it, the wireless network came to life. It’s been there ever since.”
 According to Gary Borham, operations manager at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel, “We are building an infrastructure that opens up opportunities for more and more applications. Wireless transmitters are being installed farther and farther away from the gateway without a loss of signal quality. The result is better information from difficult-to-reach areas of the mill, and this is helping our personnel prevent unscheduled downtime, meet customers’ quality requirements, and optimize productivity.”
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