ADAPTER DEVICE FOR COUPLING AN INDUSTRIAL FIELD INSTRUMENT TO AN INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS NETWORK AND RELATED SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

A method includes coupling (502) an adapter device (120) to a field instrument (112, 112a-112e) in an industrial control system (100) to provide a wireless communication capability to the field instrument. The method also includes converting (514-516), by the adapter device, information from a first protocol native to the field instrument into a second protocol native to a wireless network. The method further includes transmitting (516) the information to at least one other device over the wireless network.