Fieldbus Technology

Fieldbus Technology (FT), an enabling platform has already emerged in order to cater the need for sophisticated and flexible control and as a matter of fact it has becoming the preferred choice for the next generation real-time automation and control solutions. This book incorporates a selection of research and development papers. Its scope is on history and background, contemporary standards,underlying architecture,comparison between different Fieldbus systems,applications,latest innovations,new trends as well as oncompatibility, interoperability, and interchangeability.