Title: Time analysis of wireless controller area network-based fire and gas safety system

Authors: Gerardine Immaculate Mary; Zachariah C. Alex; Lawrence Jenkins

Addresses: School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India ' School of Electronics Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India ' Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India

Abstract: Fire and gas safety (FGS) system are important tools for safeguarding process plants and production facilities that handle flammable and toxic materials. In general, a conventional fire and gas system has several shortcomings, such as weakness to noise and false alarms. In order to overcome these shortcomings, controller area network (CAN)-based FGS system has been implemented in our previous work. Further, considering that FGS systems are employed in hazardous environments, where wireless implementation of CAN is desirous, an attempt to make CAN wireless is carried out for these systems in this work, by using the radio protocol IEEE 802.15.4 to communicate CAN messages wireless. This work is a continuation of our previous work. Here the wired CAN interface is converted to wireless CAN and response time analysis of the system is done using CANoe v7.6.

Keywords: wireless CANs; WCAN implementation; fire and gas safety systems; IEEE 802.15.4; ZigBee; controller area networks; fire safety; response time.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCNDS.2017.081441

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 2017 Vol.18 No.1, pp.1 - 17

Received: 27 Apr 2015
Accepted: 17 May 2016

Published online: 08 Jan 2017 *

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