The latest generation of explosion-protected remote I/O systems from R. STAHL, IS1+ for installation in zone 1 and zone 2 or Division 1 or Division 2, enables fast communication via Foundation Fieldbus High Speed Ethernet (FF HSE). As the first product in its class, IS1+ has been acknowledged with the official ‘tick mark’ for a FF HSE device following testing and registration by the FieldComm group.
Featuring a transmission rate of up to 100 Mbit/s, the HSE standard has been designed by the Fieldbus Foundation – now a member of the FieldComm Group – especially with remote I/O, wireless gateways, and similar applications in mind. FF HSE has more recently been further augmented by F-ROM (Foundation for Remote Operations Management) technology.
F-ROM features a number of enhancements, which are all also supported by IS1+. These include special “RIO Function Blocks” for an effective transmission of large amounts of data, “Association Blocks” for comfortable offline configuration as, and special “HART Transducer Blocks”, which – for the first time ever – enable an integration of HART field devices into FF architectures.
