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."

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