ZIGBEE Operated FPGA Based Nodes in Wireless Industrial Automation Monitoring and Control

There has been a rapid growth in the extremes of Industrial Monitoring and Control, particularly in the domain of Automation processes. This is due to the extensive involvement of automation in every industry possible and the ease of maintenance is only multiplied by the advances of the automation technology. This needs an efficient way of monitoring and control of the industrial processes. More and more applications are wireless oriented these days. Hence this paper aims at bringing the flexibility of Field Programmable Gate Arrays with a layered architecture that facilitates the maintenance of the Operations in a efficient way and the ZigBee wireless technology together onto one integrated application. It is a prototype technology where a node is more flexible using FPGA and the data and control statements are communicated using ZigBee Standard protocols.