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We analyze here the topic of integration, in the area of factory automation,

from sensor/actuator levels to plant management levels.

The communication at the plant level is based on wireless technology

while management applications run in supervisory concentrators

but can also be distributed, communicating via the Internet. The

work reported here is part of SOCRADES, a European advanced research

and development project aiming to build a design, execution

and management platform for next-generation industrial automation

systems. While theoretical and simulation level results have been

previously reached, our nal goal here is a real-life demonstrator at

a mining plant - New Boliden (Boliden, Sweden). The thesis work

is a continuation of the previous work in the project, and provides

support for the integration of WirelessHART networks at the plant

level, and a management application dialogue between ABB and SAP

systems, two main partners in the SOCRADES project. A small control

environment is to be deployed at the Boliden plant, to supervise

a tank level control system. The plant is connected, via ABB control

and management applications and servers to high management

procedures of the partners. Targeted results of the MSc work are

an interface between wireless and wired systems, the deployment of

a control environment at Boliden, the development of the enterprise

business management facilities and the realization of a software package

to support the WirelessHART solution.