IWLAN in logistics
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IWLAN in logistics Efficiency, mobility, and safety of people Special requirements in the logistics sector Logistics need low-maintenance, safe Industrial Wireless LAN (IWLAN) solu- Advantages of IWLAN in logistics tions that can be used both indoors and outdoors – for example, to run • Real-time communication storage and retrieval systems, shuttle systems, or Automated Guided Vehicles specifically for mobile Clients (AGV). All systems first and foremost have to be safe for people and efficient moving freely within a field to use. But as diverse as applications in the logistics and intralogistics sector can be, the potential use cases of IWLAN devices from Siemens are every bit as diverse. IWLAN for warehousing and procurement systems An IWLAN solution pairing a SCALANCE W Access Point and a Client Module makes it easy and safe to control storage and retrieval systems. AGVs play an important role in plant logistics anywhere transport tasks arise in production, such as in delivering materials containers to workstations, or in warehousing finished products. The Industrial Point Coordination Function with Management Channel (iPCF-MC) iFeature is especially useful in high-bay warehouses that work with shuttles. Here, directional or omnidirectional antennas can serve warehouse aisles at either the beginning or the end. The shuttles have the corresponding automation components. • Fail-safe industrial control in Automated Guided Vehicles • Flexibility thanks to freely moving participants (proactive roaming) • Very fast roaming times, well below 50 ms, for uninterrupted communication • Based on standards: connection to existing production networks • High quality – low maintenance • A solution usable across sectors for a vast range of applications (automotive, traffic and transportation infrastructure, amusement parks, etc.)

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SCALANCE W774-1 RJ45 with SIMATIC S7-1500 and SCALANCE XM416-4C with Port Extender PE408 PoE Control cabinet Industrial Ethernet/PROFINET iPCF-MC for wireless communication in communicating with the controllers via PROFINET, logistics applications PROFIsafe, or EtherNet/IP. Applications with RCoax Controllers and I/O systems in the PROFINET and directional antennas are also possible. Just as environment and EtherNet/IP applications cannot with iPCF, the Clients are polled cyclically (deter- communicate reliably with one another via the ministics). With the iPCF-MC iFeature, the Client IEEE...

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