Passive Monitoring Software Tool for Evaluation of Deployed WirelessHART Networks

Abstract

Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks in realworld control and monitoring applications may reveal performance problems caused by several factors. To track down such problems, it is necessary to inspect the conditions of network and nodes after deployment. In this paper, we discuss a monitoring software architecture for inspection of WirelessHART networks. Capture of information is done in a passive way using sniffers deployed in the network area. Messages are decoded, decrypted, filtered and then visualized in a graphic interface. A WirelessHART network was deployed in a laboratory for performance evaluation using the developed tool.

Industrial IoT Monitoring: Technologies and Architecture Proposal

“…From the first perspective, the authors of [ 90 , 91 ] propose techniques that improve the reliability of the network at routing schedule-level: by using a finite-state Markov model [ 90 ], and by specifying scheduling emergency and recovery mechanisms when a path-down alarm occurs [ 91 ]. On the other hand, the work presented in [ 92 , 93 , 94 ] proposes several techniques and platforms that can be used to monitor some IWSN. In [ 92 ], the authors develop a passive monitoring tool for evaluation of the deployed WirelessHART networks using passive sniffers deployed in the network area.…”

“…On the other hand, the work presented in [ 92 , 93 , 94 ] proposes several techniques and platforms that can be used to monitor some IWSN. In [ 92 ], the authors develop a passive monitoring tool for evaluation of the deployed WirelessHART networks using passive sniffers deployed in the network area. Additionally, in [ 93 ], the authors propose an hybrid monitoring technique to monitor wireless and wired industrial technologies in the scope of the project HiFlecs.…”

“…Additionally, most part of the work focus in a specific problem like [ 90 , 91 ], and do not address the needs of monitoring several process automation networks at the same point. Additionally, some of the works that present solutions to monitor these standards [ 92 , 93 , 94 ] keep proposing passive monitoring tools that need extra networks to be installed, adding extra costs to a technology designed to be low-cost. Lastly, most of the work [ 95 , 96 , 97 ] in the field of integration focus their effort in the representation of the sensor data, and any of them try to explore the use of management protocols like LWM2M and COMI (protocols specific for constrained devices) to represent and make available the monitoring data.…”

Method for Detecting Transmission Link Failure in Industrial Wireless Networks

“…This work is organized as follows: the Section 2 presents some work related to the failure detection in IWN; Section 3 presents the theoretical basis as well as the description of the problem; Section 4 shows the operation of the algorithm proposed and testing methodology; In Section 5 the results; We conclude the discussion and visualize future works in the Section 6. Kunzel et al (2012) has a implementention of WH network inspection enviroment. The capture of information is done in a passive way using a sniffer to monitor the network.…”