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HART Field Communications Protocol – A Technical Overview
The publication, HART Field Communications Protocol – A Technical Overview, a technical introduction and integrators guide to the HART Protocol, is now available for purchase. The 120-page technical manual is intended to help end users and systems integrators to understand the features and benefits of HART technology, how it works and what it can do.“The manual provides technical details of the HART Protocol in a user-friendly format that will help users and system integrators understand the features and benefits of the technology,” says Ed Ladd, HCF Director of Technology Programs. “It is an excellent reference manual for anyone who wants to know more about HART technology without delving into the 2500-page Protocol Specification.”
The manual was written by Romilly Bowden, who worked on the original development of the HART Protocol in the 1980s and notes in his introduction, “written to be read sequentially or to be used as reference, the manual has short sections, each on a specific topic.”
The topics included in the new manual are: a general introduction and benefits of HART technology; the HART physical signal; system components; message structure and transactions; commands, data and status indicators; host connection procedure; device descriptions and device families; and an introduction to HART C8PSK.