Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks

Stephen Smith Teja Kuruganti Wayne Manges Tim McIntyre Wireless Industrial Sensor Networks Wireless Enables Ubiquitous Sensing

. National Research Council – “advanced wireless sensors” identified as a critical research need. . President ’ s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology – “wireless sensors can improve efficiency by 10% and cut emissions by more than 25%” . Industrial Wireless Workshop – trade throughput for reliability . DOE Industrial Wireless Program

. The four parameters are non-orthogonal Reliability . Deployment demands performance Latency . Understanding environment is the key . Wireless – radio, packaging, antenna . Industrial – harsh, fault tolerant, safety related, cost Throughput . Sensor – filters, sampling, sensitivity, interferers, Security controls . Networks – real-time, latency, throughput, security, integrity, vertical integration

2 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy 2 “Engineered” vs. “Can you hear me now?!!”

Transmitter • RF channel is dynamic and time-varying RX 1

Receiver • Fast site-specific radio channel path-loss s data for use in wireless network simulations RX 2 • Robust channel models can be created • Characterize common environmental Simulated vs Measured Simulated elements among data centers -40 -45 Measured -50 -55 -60 -65 Path Loss Path -70 -75 WISN QoS -80 WISN QoS -85

steps Center Trashcan Pedestal 1 Fire Hose Management NSD Corner far light pole

Management QoS Specific Application WISN 5200 pedestal Light Pole- Café Light Pole- Brian Roundabout drain Location RF EnvironmentEnvironment Parameter Sensing Network Network Estimation

Dynamic RF Environment . Closed-loop control requires Dynamic RF EnvironmentQoS Assessment Assessment deterministic quality of service WISN with with & QoS Self Self Test Test Feedback . Robust channel models will help develop novel estimation techniques

QoS Based for stable controls Feedback

3 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Thrust Areas for Advanced Wireless Communications R&D at ORNL

• Robust communication systems – improving the robustness and reliability of communication systems by developing advanced signal processing techniques in the areas of spread-spectrum , space- time coding, iterative error-correcting decoding, interference cancellation, bandwidth-efficient modulation, and rapid synchronization

• Cognitive communications – allows communications mode to adapt based on local knowledge of the environment and adequate decision- making processes

• Ubiquitous wireless sensor/actuator networks – enables a pervasive and ubiquitous communications (monitoring and control) presence by addressing key issues like self organization, seamless integration, security, scalability, mobility, and energy constraints

• Bio-inspired communications – building micro- and nano-scale communication systems that take advantage of the computational and organizational strategies used by biological organisms to solve complex problems in real time 4 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy 4 The Wireless Landscape

IEEE 802.15.4 ISA100.11a

IEEE802.15.4 Wireless HART

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6 Managed by UT-Battelle Co-resident Wireless Systems for the U.S. Department of Energy Early Adopters – Blazing the Wireless Trail!

Wireless Vibration Sensor

7 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Why Develop a Global Industrial Wireless Standard?

Because I always know where my signals are going!

8 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Why Develop a Global Industrial Wireless Standard?

Because somebody will always invent an adapter!

9 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy What is ISA100?

Family of standards designed from the ground up for many industrial wireless applications

ISA100 Timeline Currently Issued To Develop Future Developing Process Apps (ISA100.11a) Discrete Apps Physics of Radio Location & Tracking Long Distance Apps Emerging Apps (non-normative) (ISA100.21) Industrial Facility Apps

ISA100 Family of Standards: One-Stop Standardization Designed to Accommodate all Your Plant Needs

10 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Interference: Broadband high- powered

~ 0.65ms ~ 0.65ms 11 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy More interference: ambient channel noise

12 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Multipath Interference

LONG-PATH REFLECTION

TRANS. RCVR.

SHORT-PATH REFL.

Differential delays are approx. 1 ns per foot Short-path delays (indoors) are typically < 0.1µs HSS Spread-spectrum modulation can largely cancel long-path effects

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Fig. 1. Typical RF Indoor Signal-Delay Profile Typical indoor (large room) multipath delay profile.

Presentation_name 14 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Frequency-Domain Effect of Multipath

Vector cancellations due to multiple paths (some out-of-phase) result in signal “notches” at specific frequencies as determined by dimensions of RF-reflective environment.

DS Signal 1 2 3 4 5

Standard FH Signals Frequency Notch (Attenuated Signal) Produces signal “dead spots”

15 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Close-Up on 2.45-GHz ISM Band

802.11

802.15.4

Bluetooth

Wireless USB

ZigBee

802.15.4-compliant devices must yield to 802.11 traffic, while real candidate industrial and SG technologies may not.

16 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy ORNL’s Solution: Hybrid

• Novel, adaptive technique (U.S. Patents 7,092,440; 7,656,931; 7,660,338). • HSS: a synergistic, programmable combination of DS, FH, and TH. • Advantages: – Adaptive Hybrid Spread-Spectrum (HSS) modulation format combines DSSS and frequency/time hopping in a multi-dimensional, orthogonal signaling scheme. – Capable of excellent LPI, LPD & security properties (programmable). – Adaptive, robust protocol for high QoS applications. – Can be operated in burst mode for very low power drain. – Superior resistance to multipath and jamming (high process gain). – Easily deployed with modern technology. – Compliant with existing government rules for license-free ISM bands. – Ideally implemented via modern FPGA-based electronics, ASICs, and software-defined radio (SDR) techniques.

17 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy DIRECT-SEQUENCE SPREAD-SPECTRUM SIGNALS PN Clock Local PN Clock

Local PN Sequence PN Sequence Carrier Generator Carrier DS Generator Signal ±1 ±1 Wide Narrow Phase Data Data BP Filter BP Filter Demod Data ±1 Clock

Power Power Power Spectral Spectral Spectral Density Density Density

“Spread” RFI RFI

f f f Frequency c Frequency c Frequency c Original narrowband, high Narrow spectrum at Spectrum has wider bandwidth power density spectrum is and lower power density after restored if local PN sequence is output of modulator spreading with PN sequence same as and lined up with before spreading (PN Rate >> Data Rate) received PN sequence

18 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy FREQUENCY-HOPPING SPREAD-SPECTRUM PN Clock Local PN Clock

PN Sequence PN Sequence Generator Generator … FH … Signal RF RF ±1 Wide Narrow Data Data Data Frequency Frequency Synthesizer BP Filter Synthesizer BP Filter Demod. Data Clock

Power RFI Spectral Data Power Density RFI causes Spectral Output errors Density

t t t t0 t t t1 4 2 6 3 5 t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6

f f Frequency c Frequency c Time (hops) t Original narrowband, high Narrow spectrum at Spectrum has same bandwidth power data stream is restored if output of modulator and power density after hopping local PN sequence is same as while hopping with PN sequence (PN Rate << and lined up with received PN Data Rate for standard FHSS) sequence

19 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy HYBRID SPREAD-SPECTRUM (DS/SFH) PN Clock Local PN Clock

PN Sequence PN Sequence Generator Generator … DS/FH … ±1 Signal RF RF Wide Narrow Data Data Data Frequency Frequency Synthesizer BP Filter Synthesizer BP Filter Demod. Data Clock

Power Power Spectral RFI Data Spectral Density Output Density

RFI Reduced by DS PG t t t t0 t t t1 4 2 6 3 5 t0 t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6

f f Frequency c Frequency c Time (bits) t Spectrum has same bandwidth Original narrowband, high DS (wide) spectrum at power data stream is restored if and power density after hopping local PN sequence is same as output of modulator with PN sequence (PN Rate << while hopping and lined up with received PN Data Rate for standard HSS; sequence >> for FastHSS™)

20 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy FAST HYBRID SPREAD-SPECTRUM (DS/FFH) PN Clock “FastHSS™” Local PN Clock

PN Sequence PN Sequence Generator Generator … DS/FH … ±1 Signal RF RF Wide Narrow Data Data Data Frequency Frequency Synthesizer BP Filter Synthesizer BP Filter Demod. Data Clock

Power Power Spectral RFI Data Spectral Density Output Density

RFI Reduced by DS PG! t11 t20 t21 t00 t30 t01 t10 t00 t01t 10 t11 t20 t21 t30 t31 t40 t41t 50 t51t 60 t61 t40 t61 t60 t31 t41 t50 t51

f f Frequency c Frequency c Time (chips) t Original narrowband, high DS (wide) spectrum at Spectrum has same bandwidth power data stream is restored if output of modulator and power density after hopping local PN sequence is same as while hopping with PN sequence (PN Rate >> and lined up with received PN Data Rate for FastHSS™; e.g., as sequence above, 2 hops per bit).

Gp(FH/DS) dB = Gp(FH) dB + Gp(DS)dB = 10 log (no. of hopping channels) + 10 log (BWDS/Rinfo) 21 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy HSS is a Multidimensional Signal

• HSS can be defined in 3 axes Frequency (code, frequency, and time). (C4,F2,t0) • Each dimension is orthogonal with the others. Code

• Permissible signal spaces along an axis (C2,F1,t0) may also be ~ orthogonal. (C3,F0,t1) • Codes • Frequencies (C ,F ,t ) 0 0 0 (C1,F2,t2) • Time slots • Easily adaptable to exploit many degrees of freedom to

meet system requirements. Time • Some signal overlaps may be orthogonal.

22 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Simulation confirms the performance More Results published in upcoming IEEE MILCOM and IEEE CQR

0 10

-1 10

-2 10

-3 10 BER -4 10

-5 10 2-Path Rayleigh BPSK DS SFH -6 10 FFH Hybrid DS-SFH Hybrid DS-FFH -7 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 SNR

23 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy HSS System Hardware Prototypes

Transmitter Receiver

24 Managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy Advanced Wireless Telesensor Chip

Spread- Spectrum Gen. VCO/PLL ADC Mixer Voltage Ref. RF Amp

Temp. Sensors

Optical Control Detector Logic Optical Data (+IEEE Interface 1451) Process: Size: 0.5-µ H-P 3.3 mm sq.

25 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy High-Temperature Sensors

• Wireless sensors capable of working in extreme environments can significantly improve the efficiency and performance of industrial processes by facilitating better monitoring and control. • Example applications: fossil plants, steam turbines, jet engines. • SAW devices are also potentially useful at high temps.

26 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy 26 Comparison of WBG materials with Si

Property Si SiC GaN Suitability for High Power Medium High High Application Suitability for High Low Medium High Frequencies HEMT structure No No Yes Suitability of High No Yes Yes Temperature Application Low Cost Substrate Yes No Yes

27 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy 27 GaN Material Superiority

GaN is an attractive material for high-power electronics due to its: • wide bandgap  for high temperature operation • high breakdown field  for large blocking voltage applications & • high saturated electron velocity  for high frequency performance

BFM JFM T Material µ ε E max g Ratio Ratio (°C) Si 1300 11.4 1.1 1.0 1.0 300 SiC 260 9.7 2.9 3.1 60 600

GaN 1500 9.5 3.4 24.6 80 700

3 Baliga figure-of-merit: BFM =εµEG Ref.: Umesh K. Mishra, et al, E .v Johnson’s figure-of-merit: JFM = C s “AlGaN/GaN HEMTs An overview 2π of Device Operation and Applications”. June 2002

28 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy 28 GaN Device Structure

• AlGaN/GaN HEMT investigated in this work was primarily developed for power applications and was grown on a SiC substrate for high temperature operation. • The source and drain contacts are ohmic, whereas gate is Schottky barrier with gold as the gate metal. • Due to bandgap difference between AlGaN and GaN a potential well is formed in the GaN layer at the interface. • Spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization exist in the heterointerface because of the lattice mismatch between AlGaN and GaN. These polarized charges are confined in the potential well, forming a 2-D electron gas.

29 Managed by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Many Potential Wireless Applications

• Personnel Tracking/Locating • Access Control • Human Safety Management • Intrusion Detection • Material Tracking • Safety Event Monitoring • Product Tracking • Leak Detection • Field Operator Efficiency • Equipment Measurements • Field Maintenance Efficiency • Product Measurements • Plant Security • Inferential Measurements • Business Performance Measures • Hand-held HMI • Incremental Process Measures • Key Performance Measurement • Extended Plant Visibility (Video) • Mobile Asset Management • Tank Gauging Redundancy • Evacuation Management

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Questions?

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