Eye on eyewash
December 1st 2008 Emerson Process
Management's Smart
Wireless products are
monitoring eye wash and
safety shower stations at a
paper mill in Oregon, USA.
When one of Boise's eight
eye wash or safety shower
stations is turned on,
Emerson's Rosemount
wireless discrete transmitters
in the self-organising Smart
Wireless field network,
immediately communicate
with the mill's operating
system to activate an alarm
in the facility's control
room. This allows operators
to quickly dispatch
assistance to the station and
investigate possible injuries.
The estimated cost to use
hard wired monitors at the
stations was 30,000 Euros.
"We had looked into
installing a wired network
monitoring system, but it
was cost prohibitive to do
so," says Boise' Jeff Taylor.
"By installing a wireless
network instead of a wired
network, we were able to
save about 60% in
installation costs." More articles from Emerson Process Management: | 
