Bluetooth in the chemical industry

Bluetooth is fully integrated into everyday use. For example the car kit in your car, to safely make hands-free calls or earplugs/headphones, everyone is using them. Business-wise, in the chemical process industry in the field of instrumentation, Bluetooth is also getting more and more common. For example, for controlling flow, level, pressure and temperature sensors. Especially convenient to be able to commission an instrument via a device, without a cable modem. But is this all? No, there is more...

At KROHNE, this development has not been unnoticed either. For instance flowmeters, SIL certified equipped with pin secured encrypted Bluetooth and physically disconnectable support. Not only for commissioning the instrument, but also for performing “SIL” verifications, local, insitu diagnostics or trend analysis. But also for displaying additional values (data), for in-depth process insights, or for application optimization or maintenance planning.

Besides providing convenient information, the use of Bluetooth also supports to increase safety. Consider the KROHNE OPTIMASS Coriolis mass flowmeter series, it features comprehensive diagnostics and monitoring functions as standard, with Bluetooth option, optimal availability. In particular, the convenience to perform verification at any time. Even insitu level 1 verification with reporting, provides in-depth reliability of the instrument and processes. The operator no longer needs to be at almost impossible to reach locations, he can easily adjust/monitor the processes via Bluetooth.

Bluetooth is meanwhile a secure, productivity-enhancing, efficient and cost-effective “connection” technology that can compete with existing “wired” protocols. Not to replace cables, but as a time-saving tool to optimize and maintain the process. As an addition to existing connection techniques, as a tool, not as a primary data transmitter. A tool with high added value, of which the limits are far from being reached.