Industrial Networks

Course title: Industrial Networks

Code: FEIT01Z016

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 2+2+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: None

Course goals/Competences: The purpose of this discipline is to familiarize students with the types of industrial networks used nowadays, classification of industrial networks, their settings and configurations . After the successful completion of this course, the students will be able to:

- identify the types of industrial networks

- configure the types of industrial networks

- CanBus

- RS- 485

- ProfiBus

- FieldBus

- ZigBee

Total available number of classes: 180

Curriculum:  Acquisition and conditioning of data. Industrial environment - a review of the restrictions. Industrial communication. Standards for industrial networks. Standard networking and communication devices for work in industrial conditions. Wired and wireless sensors networks. Communication in automation systems. Designing a system for communication with emphasis on managerial techniques. Designing algorithms for real-time control using RS-232, RS-482, Ethernet, CanBUS, ProfiBUS, GSM, GPRS and ZigBee networks.

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