Electronica: ADI focusses on industry 4.0

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“We’re focused on a set of solution areas that put existing brownfield infrastructure on a path to industry 4.0,” said ADI general manager Brendan O’Dowd. “These solutions include deterministic Ethernet, security, and condition-based monitoring.”

For example, ADcmXL3021 is a MEMS-based sensing module for condition monitoring, where the tri-axial vibration sensor inside is combined with built-in signal processing to provide data for predictive maintenance of mechanical equipment.

Then there is the recently introduced 60GHz industrial radar sensor family called LPR-1DHP-200 which can make one-dimensional distance measurements with millimeter-range accuracy for automation, transport, and production processes.

For industrial networking, ADI is adding hardware-based identity for security at the edge of the network within a factory control loop.

The new capabilities, said the firm, are integrated with a real-time Ethernet multi-protocol switch with TSN features – including time synchronisation (802.1AS) pre-emption (802.1Qbu/br) – to control industrial applications via OPC-UA.

“By combining security capabilities with TSN features, ADI is enabling state-of-the-art field device communication solutions at the edge of industrial networks,” claimed the firm.

See ADI at Electronica stand 111 in hall C4.