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Commissioning Wireless
Devices
Field Communicator
Another important
diagnostic screen is
network statistics.
Host Statistics
Network statistics
between the gateway
and the host system are
another important
diagnostic.
DeltaV Diagnostics
The gateway
communication statistics
with a valve are shown in
this example.
Device Manager
Step
4: Expand a channel node, click on the assigned wireless device under it and check
its attributes.
1: Configure a new wireless device using a field communicator. Enable the burst
mode to publish data. Power it on and let it join the wireless network.
Step
2: In the control system explorer view of field devices, open the Reconcile I/O dialog
box, find the new device and, drag and drop it to an unused channel.
Step
3: Create a new control module and, assign it to the controller. Add an AI function
block and assign its IO_IN to the tag of the channel assigned to the new device.
Step
Step
5: Open the control module online and observe that the value of the AI block
periodically updates. The updates come from the burst data of the new device.