Quality Parameters in Wireless Distributed Control Systems

Abstract

Controlling and monitoring industrial processes are important elements that allow high quality tasks to be performed, thanks to discovering all anomalies in those processes and making rapid responses to emerging issues. Currently, the most commonly used approaches are distributed systems, which consist of intelligent modules (motes) whose tasks are to collect the information, analyse it and perform the correct actions. Those modules are commonly cooperating with each other by exchanging the information using a network connecting those elements. For passing the information in distributed systems, wireless motes can be used which work in the ISM band. In the presented article, the authors show the results of the examination of the proposed routing protocols, which were implemented in the simulation environment. Each of the protocols has been tested for purposes of the quality parameters. The determinant of the quality parameter is the probability of the correctly received information by the motes of the exemplary distributed system.