A Fast Approach to Equip a HART Device with WirelessHART Capability

The WirelessHART standard extends the traditional HART standard with wireless capabilities. It is important for existing HART devices to support WirelessHART. The WirelessHART adapter is specially defined to connect wired HART device to host applications via the WirelessHART network. In this chapter we follow the principle of a WirelessHART adapter and suggest a fast solution to equip HART devices with wireless capability without much change to the existing HART devices. This could serve as an intermediate solution before a fully integrated WirelessHART device is developed. In many cases this might also be the final solution for the HART device vendors.