HART Device Networks

Chapters 7 and 8 in the Textbook

Professor: HONGWEI ZHANG

CSC8260 Winter’2016

Presented By: ABDUL AZIZ REEHAN SHAIK (fq8875)

[email protected]
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 Introduction
What is HART?
HART-Highway Addressable Remote Transducer

• HART is a digital industrial Automation Protocol or Communication

Protocol.

• A HART device is a microprocessor-based process transmitter which

supports a two-way communication with the Host.

• HART digital signal is modulated onto the 4-20 mA analog signal at a

higher frequency and is observed by the process control equipment.
 Introduction (Contd..)
What is a 4-20 mA Analog Signal?
• The analog 4-20 mA is a current loop which is used for analog signaling.

• With 4 mA being the lowest range and 20 mA being the highest range.

Why is the current loop used?

• Because the accuracy of the signal is not affected by voltage drop in the
connection wiring.

• And also the loop supplies the operating power to the devices.
 HART Protocol
HART Protocol uses Two types of modes:
• Point-To-Point and Multidrop modes.

• In Point-to-Point or also known as Analog/Digital mode the HART protocol

uses only one instrument.

• In Multidrop mode more than one instruments can be on the instrument

cable signal pair.

In detail discussion in Network Topologies.

Packet Structure of HART
 How Does HART Work?
• HART enables a 2-way field communication to and from the smart field
devices.

• HART Protocol communicates at 1200bps without interrupting the 4-20mA

signal and allows a Host (Master) to get more than two updates from the
smart field devices(Slaves).

• HART is a Master/Slave protocol. The Slave responds only when the

Master requests.

• HART Communication occurs only between two HART-enabled devices.

• Provides two simultaneous channels, 4-20mA analog signal and the digital
signal.
 How Does HART Work?(Contd..)
• The Primary Value(PV) is communicated through the 4-20mA analog signal
current loop.

• Any kind of additional data is communicated through the digital signal.

• Digital signal contains information such as Device Status, Diagnostics,

Additional measured or calculated values.
 HART Field Devices
All HART field devices must have the following properties:

• Adherence to Physical and Data Link Layer requirements, i.e., they must
follow all the rules of the physical and data link layer.

• Support for minimum Application Layer requirements.

• Support for all Universal Commands.(In detail in HART Commands)

• The 4-20mA current loop connects the HART field devices to the Control
System.

• Current loop always connected to PV, in case the devices support more than
one loop then the second loop is connected to Secondary Variable(SV).

In detail about all the layers in Communication Stack section.

 HART Networks
All Communication Systems can be characterized by the Throughput and
Latency.
• Throughput: Indicates the maximum number of transactions per second
that can be communicated by the system.
• Latency: Measures the worst-case maximum time between the start and
completion of a transaction.

HART can provide up to 2.65 PV updates per second.

If the network becomes unsynchronized then the throughput can reduce to

0.88 PV updates per second.

In multidrop latency increases due to many no.of commands in line.

HART Performance Summary
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Device Networks In Detail
• Applications utilizing the HART devices are traditional monitoring and
process control, safety applications, asset management, equipment health
monitoring applications.

• In these applications the measurements include the following,

temperature, pressure, flow, pH, conductivity, discretes, level, vibration,
mass flow, energy, valve position.

• The earliest HART Communications protocol was based on the BELL 202
Telephone Communication Standard and was operated using the
Frequency Shift Key(FSK) principle.

• The digital signal is made up of two frequencies: 1200 and 2200 Hz

representing the 1 and 0 bits respectively.
Evolution of HART
Wired HART Simultaneous Analog and
Digital Communication
 Reduced Configuration, Installation and
Checkout
•HART devices are designed to work for a wide range of applications.

•The devices have to be configured. Each device is given a tag, and a set of
signal conditioning parameters.

•The DDL(Device Description Language) checks whether the device supports

the particular parameters.

•To configure the control system we need different set of information such as
the measurements supported by the device and Signal information
associated with the measurements.

•Control System Configuration must be downloaded into the control system

at different levels of development.

•HART provides many sets of features which support overall configuration,

installation and checkout procedures.
 Monitoring, Control and Safety

•6 different classes of sensor and control.

•Measurements are used by operators to monitor things in the plant.

•Used to generate reports and make decisions of the process, maintenance

activities and schedule production runs.
 WirelessHART
• Wired networks such as Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, HART are all well
established and continue to dominate in the industry.

• WirelessHART includes a combination of device improvements, network

technology and network management.

• Network management is key to operation of wireless network. Used to manage

the network resources efficiently, schedule communications to meet the
application requirements, establish routing to meet reliability and performance
goals.

• Security, reliability, ease of use and battery life are some of the things taken care
by the network manager.

• WirelessHART devices can be line powered or Non-line powered(eg. batteries).

• Batteries are more efficient and flexible because of the on-off ratio.
 Security

• HART evolves continuously. Current release 7 HART introduced the

WirelessHART as its first wireless mesh network.

• Biggest Challenge addressed by wirelessHART is the plant security.

• WirelessHART employs robust security measures to protect the network and

secure the data at all times.

• It uses the industry standard 128-bit AES Encryption algorithm at multiple

levels.

• Data link layer holds a secret key to authenticate each data transmission.

• At the Network layer each session has a different key to encrypt peer-to-peer
communication.
 Security (Contd..)
• Different Join Key is used for each device to encrypt and authenticate
during the device join process.

• The Network Manager periodically keeps changing the keys.

• WirelessHART also supports the Access Control List through the

quarantine state as part of the joining process.
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Architecture
• HART device is a communications protocol.

• Digital Data exchange between the field device and the Host computer.

• Host is often the Master device or the Gateway in case of wirelessHART.

• HART Host first has to talk to find out what the device provides.

• How does HART identify the device? How HART describes the device
capabilities? What data is exchanged?
 Device Identification
• Each HART device has a 38-bit address consisting of manufacturer ID,
device type code, and a device unique identifier.

• The master must know the address of a field device in order to

communicate successfully.

How does the Master connect to Slave device?

• Command 0, Read unique Identifier—Enables the master to learn the

address of the slave device without user interaction.
• Command 11, Read Unique Identifier by Tag– Useful if no more than 15
devices in the network.
 Electronic Device Description
Language(EDDL)
• Is a machine readable language used to describe the devices in a common
and consistent way.

• Describes the device, methods provided by device, measurement and

device parameters supported, configuration information.

• A DD file provides a picture of all the parameters and functions of a device

in a standard language.

• HART DDL is used to write the DD. Resembles C Language.

EDDL (Contd..)
 Accessing Data
• The most common data types are Process Variable/Primary Variable (PV),
a percentage of range, and a digital reflection of analog mA signal or the
device status.

• These values are mapped to the HART protocol PV, Secondary

Variable(SV), Tertiary Variable(TV), Fourth Variable (FV).
Example: Mass flow meter has the derived values obtained.
• PV – mass flow value.
• SV – Static Pressure.
• TV – Temperature.
• FV – Digital mA signal reflection.
These mappings are user selectable.
 Wiring Parameters and Commanding
Devices
• HART also describes how to write data back to the instrument.

• HART also supports the commands for calibrating the instruments based
on the application requirements.

• For Wired Devices all the communications are carried out over 4-20 mA
current loop wiring.

• For WirelessHART devices the communication is carried out over–the--air

through IEEE 802.15.4 radios.
 Design Approach
• The HCF (HART Communications Foundation) provides HART specifications
that can be used by suppliers to design and build devices, tools, and
applications.
Several Design Approaches are:
• The device description DD.

• HART messages.

• Service or Protocol Structure.

• HART Commands which are the content of HART messages.

 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Communications Mode
• HART protocol is Master/Slave based communications protocol.

• Slave communication is initiated only when the Master requests.

• Two Masters can connect to each HART loop.

• Primary Master can be the Distributed Control System, Programmable Logic

Controller (PLC) or any Personal Computer.

• Secondary Master is generally a Handheld Terminal or another PC.

• Slave Devices consist of Transmitters, Actuators, and controllers which respond

to commands from Master.

• Types of communications are Request/Response, Burst Mode, Events and

Event Notifications, Block Data Transfer.
 Request/Response

• HART Communications protocol uses Request/Response messages to

access and change parameter values, invoke device methods, configure
devices and in wirelessHART manage the network devices.
 Burst Mode
• Allows the master to instruct the slave device to continuously broadcast a
standard HART reply message.
• Master receives the message in burst mode until it tells the slave to stop
bursting.
• WirelessHART devices support Burst mode whereas in Wired it is optional.
 Events and Event Notification
• Event notification publishes changes in the Device Status.

• It is possible to specify limited set of bits that will trigger event notifications.

• A de-bounce interval is configured.

• Once the event is released, it is transmitted repeatedly until it is

acknowledged.

• Event notifications are built upon burst mode operation.

• The two distinct methods to display events are: Device Status and Common
Practice Command 48.
 Events and Event Notification(Contd..)

• List of Commands used to setup and manage event notifications:

• The latest set of device status, config change counter and command 48 response
bytes are always included in Command 119.

• Command 116 is used to identify the bits that may trigger an event notification.
 Block Data Transfer

• Allows the device to transfer blocks of information.

• It is classified as a Transport layer service.

• Establishes connection between host and slave and transfers stream of

data.

• Maximizes the utilization of HART Communication.

• Connection for this kind of communication are established by the

command 111 to a specific port.

• Command 112 is used to transfer data to and from the field device.
Features of Block Data Transfer
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Network Topologies
Point-to-Point Network
 Point-to-Point (Contd..)
• It is a traditional 4-20mA analog signal based communication protocol.

• Analog signal transfers Primary variable whereas the digital signal

transfers additional device data such as Secondary Variable, operations,
maintenance, and diagnostic purposes.

• Point-to-Point is most commonly used topology.

• Most DCS suppliers provide the IO with integrated HART capabilities.

• The 4-20mA device signal is sometimes directly connected to an IO

channel.
Multidrop Network
 Multidrop Network(Contd..)
• It requires a single pair of wire.

• Only if necessary a power supply for the devices.

• All the process values are transmitted digitally.

• The current flowing through each device is fixed to a minimum which is

4mA.

• In Multidrop networks the throughput remains the same (2-3 tps) but the
latency increases as there are a number of commands in line due to
increase in number of field devices.
 WirelessMesh
• WirelessMesh is the network topology for WirelessHART technology.
 WirelessMesh(Contd..)
• WirelessHART builds on the wired HART universal, common practice and
device specific commands.

• Since it is similar to HART, installed host applications can use wireless

gateway.

• Access wireless-enabled HART field devices and new wireless-only HART

field devices.

• WirelessHART is a secure networking topology using the 2.4Ghz ISM radio

band.

• WirelessHART utilizes the IEEE 802.15.4-DSSS radios with channel hopping

on packet by packet basis.
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Commands
• At the Application Layer HART uses Commands for Data Transfer.
There are Three types of Commands in HART protocol
 Universal Commands

 Common Practice Commands

 Device Specific Commands

• All the devices using HART protocol must recognize and support the Universal
Commands. These provide the access to information useful in normal operations.

• Common Practice commands provide functions implemented by many, but not all the
HART devices.

• Device Specific Commands are unique to each field device based on the application.
HART Commands(Contd..)
 WirelessHART Commands
• Build on same patterns for device communications.
• Additional commands are for network management, gateway
communications and other functionalities by the network manager.
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 HART Communication Stack

• The HART Protocol has extensively evolved from the initial 4-20mA analog
signal to the currently used wired and wireless-based technology with
many new features such as Security, Block data transfer, event
notifications, and advanced diagnostics for a few to name.

• Wired Protocol includes 4 layers from the OSI model namely Physical, Data
Link, Transport and Application layers.

• Whereas the Wireless Protocol includes one additional Layer which is the
Network Layer.
HART Communication Layers
 Wired Protocol

PHYSICAL LAYER:
• Data transmission between masters and field devices is physically realized by
superimposing an encoded digital signal on the 4–20 mA current loop.

• The physical layer defines an asynchronous half-duplex interface that operates on

the analog current signal line. To encode the bits, the FSK method, based on the
Bell 202 communication standard, is used. Digital value 0 is assigned frequency
2200 Hz, and digital value 1 is assigned frequency 1200 Hz.

• HART masters are connected in parallel to the field devices.

• HART wiring in the field usually consists of twisted pair cables.

 Wired Protocol (Contd..)

DATA LINK LAYER:

• The data link layer provides a reliable, transaction-oriented communication path to and from
field devices for digital data transfer.

• The data link layer supports the application layer above it and requires services from the
physical layer below it.

• Divided into two sub layers: the logical link control responsible for addressing, framing, and
error detection; and the medium access control that controls the transmission of messages
across the physical link.

The elements of the HART frame are summarized as follows:

• The delimiter is the first field in a HART message. It is used for message framing by indicating
the position of the byte count.

• Three frame types are supported by the HART data link layer STX(0x2) indicates master to a
field device, STX is generally Start of the transaction ACK(0x6) Salves response to the STX, and
finally the BCK(0x1) burst acknowledge frame periodically transmitted by a burst-mode
device.
 Wired Protocol(Contd..)
• The address field can be short or long. The protocol supports both five (5) byte unique
addresses and one (1) byte polling addresses.

• The expansion bytes are optional. This field is 0–3 bytes long and its length is indicated in the
delimiter.

• The command byte encodes the master commands of the three categories: universal,
common practice, and device-specific commands.

• The byte count character indicates the message length, which is necessary since the number
of data bytes per message can vary from 0 to 25.

• The data field is optional and consists of an integral number of bytes of application layer
data.

• The response message includes two status bytes at the beginning of the data portion of the
message.

• This check byte field is 1 byte long. The check byte value is determined by a bitwise exclusive
OR of all bytes of a message including the leading delimiter.
 Wired Protocol(Contd..)

TRANSPORT LAYER:
• The block data transfer mechanism is best classified as a transport layer
service.

• The HART transport layer is fully described in HART 7 and is utilized as part of
the WirelessHART specification.

APPLICATION LAYER:
• The communication routines of HART master devices and operating programs
are based on HART commands that are defined in the application layer of the
HART protocol.

• The field devices immediately respond to a request by sending an

acknowledgment that can contain requested status reports and/or the data of
the field device.
 WirelessHART Protocol
• Includes One extra layer Network Layer.

PHYSICAL LAYER:
• The WirelessHART physical layer is based on the IEEE 802.15.4-2006 2.4 GHz
DSSS physical layer, which includes 15 of 16 possible RF channels.
WirelessHART fully conforms to IEEE 802.15.4-2006.

DATA LINK LAYER:

• The WirelessHART data link layer (DLL) is based on a fully compliant IEEE
802.15.4-2006 MAC.

• To manage timeslots, the concept of a superframe is introduced that groups a

sequence of consecutive timeslots.

• All superframes in a WirelessHART network start from the ASN (absolute slot
number) 0, the time when the network is first created.
 WirelessHART Protocol(Contd..)

In WirelessHART, a transaction in a timeslot is described by a vector: {frame id,

index, type, source address, destination address, channel offset}

• frame id identifies the specific superframe

• index is the index of the slot in the superframe
• type indicates the type of the slot (transmit/receive/idle)
• source address and destination address are the addresses of the source device
and destination device
• channel offset provides the logical channel to be used in the transaction.

NETWORK LAYER:
• DLL moves packets between devices, hop by hop, the network layer moves
packets end-to-end within the wireless network.

• Network layer security provides end-to-end data integrity and privacy across
the wireless network.
 WirelessHART Protocol(Contd..)

TRANSPORT LAYER:
• The WirelessHART transport layer provides a reliable, connectionless
transport service to the application layer.
• When selected by the application layer interface, packets sent across the
network are acknowledged by the end device so that the originated device
can retransmit lost packets.

APPLICATION LAYER:
• The application layer is HART. Because of this, access to WirelessHART is
readily available by most host systems, handhelds, and asset management
systems.
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 System Tools

System Tools section talks about how the HART devices are connected to
the Host system.
• HART point-to-point Interface

• HART multidrop interface

• Utilizing FTA with legacy control systems

• Hosts with limitations on Data handling

• Hosts with Pass-through messages

• Utilizing Device Configuration(DDL)

 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 WiredHART Tools

• WirelessHART adaptors act as master devices for traditional wired HART

devices and present them as subdevices on a WirelessHART network.

• An enhanced HART tool could interact with these subdevices just like with
any other HART devices.
Special new tools are available for WirelessHART:
• Wi-Htest

• Wi-Analysis

• WirelessHART handheld device

 WirelessHART Tools (Contd..)
Wi-HTest

Wi-Analysis
 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 Planning And Installation

WIRED HART:
• Installation practice for HART communicating devices is the same as for
conventional 4–20 mA instrumentation.

• Most installations are well within the 3,000 m (10,000 ft) theoretical limit
for HART communication.

• HART is often used in IS installations. IS is a method of providing safe

operation of electronic process control instrumentation in hazardous
areas.

• IS systems keep the available electrical energy in the system low enough
to prevent ignition of the hazardous atmosphere.
 Planning And Installation (Contd..)

WirelessHART:
• WirelessHART network may be configured similarly to a wired HART network.

• The gateway is the remote I/O system connecting wireless devices and
adaptors to DCSs, PLCs, and other plant automation systems.

• The gateway has one or more access points that connect wireless devices to
the gateway.

• Access points can be geographically dispersed from the gateway electronics

and in general should be located near the devices to which they connect.

• A key consideration is the number of devices that may be connected.

• Estimate the average bandwidth consumed by a WirelessHART network

 OUTLINE
• Introduction
• HART Device Networks In Detail
• HART Architecture
• HART Communication Modes
• HART Network Topologies
• HART Commands
• HART Communication Stack
• System Tools
• WirelessHART Tools
• Installation
• Application & Future Trends
 Applications
EXAMPLE: BIOREACTOR
• The HART communication protocol enables companies to make sure
measurements are as efficient, accurate, and timely as possible.

• Control and monitoring applications are ideal for a HART point- to-point
configuration. The HART network 4–20 mA fast update rates are ideal for
pressure and flow measurements.

• Digital measurements may be used to communicate actual valve position as

well as other parameters.

The user configures the following information for all network devices that are
accessed through the HART host interface:
• Device Tag—which uniquely identifies the device
• Measurement value(s) that are to be accessed in the network device
• How often each measurement value is to be communicated to the gateway
Applications(Contd..)
Applications(Contd..)
 Future Trends

• Wired HART and WirelessHART continue to build on the innovation that was
started in the late 1980s.

What are the business drivers?

• All business performance is based on value that can be generated from its
assets. These assets range from people and materials, to intellectual content,
to physical properties.
• Plants are becoming much more integrated with business systems.

How will the device infrastructure evolve to support these business drivers?
• Gaining process insight involves an increased number of measurements,
providing more diagnostics on the devices providing the measurements,
providing diagnostics on the process that the devices are part of, and moving
things online that were in the past done manually.
• In the first case, many plant infrastructures today are ill equipped to report
advanced diagnostics. Wireless allows these measurements to be
communicated on an alternative infrastructure.
 Future Trends(Contd..)
• In other cases, the type of equipment, for example, rotating equipment, made it
difficult to take measurements. It is a lot easier to attach devices to this kind of
equipment and let the wireless infrastructure take care of the communications.
• In still other cases where state-of-the-art was manual measurement, wireless makes it
cost effective to periodically take these measurements and communicate them
– E.g., new devices are being designed and built to measure vibration and communicate signal values
and diagnostics back to online centralized systems.

So what does this mean for HART?

• HART today is the workhorse of the industry. There is little evidence to suggest that this
will change anytime soon.

• In this light, the most recent additions such as discrete devices and burst mode
enhancements continue to be released for both wired and wireless technologies.
Innovation will continue, and both wired and wireless devices will be there to serve
users.
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