ISA SP100.11a

In this lecture Juanjo, Bethzalie and I tried to explain what ISA SP100.11.a is and his characteristics.

This is a Standard created by ISA, that is an international nonprofit member association consisting of automation professional engaged in the design, development, productions, and application of device and systems that sense measure and control industrial processes and manufacturing operation.

This standard assure multi-vendor device interoperability, provide simple, flexible, and scalable security addressing major industrial threats and also a wireless connectivity standard for applications in classes 1 – 5, and possibly class 0.

The principal characteristics of this standard are: robust, scalable and flexible architecture, provides a low-bitrate and very low power consumption ,communication with a transparent network management to the user, allows adaptive routing, multiple network topologies, addressing systems and redundancy levels, use some mechanism for granting a sustainable amount of devices in the network, a good spectrum management, coexistence with other networks and reliability in the communications and use security techniques like authentication methods, encryption or time-stamping.