Industrial high-speed wireless synchronous data acquisition system with real-time data compression

In this paper, an industrial wireless data acquisition system (WDAS) is presented. This system aims to change the inflexibility of wired system and improve the wireless transmission rate. First, the WDAS system consists of one wireless gateway and some wireless data acquisition terminals (WDAT), and IEEE 802.11n protocol is used to construct a multipoint distribution network. Then, in order to simplify the synchronous method and the data packet structure, we design a synchronous solution which adopts the console aided control method. The adaptive frequency and amplitude (AFA) compression algorithm is employed to reduce the data redundancy. Consequently, system can transmit more data by limited bandwidth. Last, some experiments of the compression algorithm are given to show the effectiveness of the AFA algorithm. By using the proposed system, distributed signals are synchronously measured and, hence, real-time analysis can be realized. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.