ZigBee based wireless networked smart transducer and its application in supervision and control system for natural gas gate station

According to the needs of technology and market of new kind of smart transducer, this article, which is based on the technology of ZigBee, the international standard IEEE1451, and the technology of intelligent transducer, proposed a new wireless transducer/controller Z-WPAN-ST and described its architecture and implement technology. The hardware structure and software components of Z-WPAN-ST which plays as a node in a WPAN are presented in detail. This article also discussed several problems relevant with the application of the new Z-WPAN-ST in supervision and control system for gas station.