Wireline - Wireless Factory - Facility Fieldbus

START project Y 41 Wireline/Wireless Factory/Facility Fieldbus Ulrich SCHMID 28.06.1996 The project W2F (Wireline/Wireless Factory/Facility Fieldbus) aims at the development of a next-generation LAN/fieldbus for distributed automation. Targeted to the major areas factory automation and home/facility automation, W2F will employ spread-spectrum CDMA technology both on wireline and wireless media. Major design goals are full distribution, security, fault-tolerance, and real-time issues as well as flexibility with respect to wireline/wireless interconnections. In sharp contrast to existing fieldbusses, however, W2F will be proven to provide its faulttolerance, security and real-time properties -or degrade gracefully- even in case of failures, attacks, and overload. Therefore, it should be a suitable basis for building up dependable and safety-critical distributed real- time applications.