Industrial Wireless Local Area Network
Industrial Wireless Local Area Network or Industrial WLAN for short IWLAN is a further development of the well-known WLAN for industrial use by Siemens .
The main difference compared to WLAN, which is widely used in the private sector, lies in the precise transmission of the control and data records, which is essential for use in industry in order to be able to safely control machines. In addition, such devices are designed for a larger temperature range of −40 ° C to +70 ° C.
The network works with a special encryption method to prevent manipulation.