1. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro Control Data Systems Industrial Wireless Communications 1

2. @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro Privately owned technology company, with a focus on Wireless Sensor Networks Located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, inside the largest technology park in North-Western Romania (Transylvania) In operation since 1994 Highly specialized team of 20 engineers and physicists In 2015 has acquired the Industrial Wireless division of Nivis LLC, a US based leading developer of technology for Wireless Sensor Networks 10+ patent applications (pending or issued) in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks authored by company resources Strategic partner with the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and the Technical University of Iasi for research activities related to Wireless Sensor Networks Active member of the Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI) Active member of IEC 2 Company background

3. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 802.15.4 based industrial grade networks ISA100.11a background in standard inception, stack development and interoperability tests Wireless Hart expertise in the stack implementation and interoperability tests RF module development Backbone router and Gateway development Wireless network management software design and implementation Cross vendor compatibility testing 3 Company expertise

4. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro Determinism - Time diversity - Collision avoidance - Frequency diversity - Automatic Repeat-reQuest (ARQ) - Spectrum management Path diversity - Mesh topology - Graph routing - Duocast - Ease of deployment 4 Industrial wireless requirements Advanced security - Link and transport layer security - Policy based - Time stamped Low power consumption - Sleep mode for routing devices Modern design - Object oriented architecture - Common plant infrastructure - IPv6 ready at device level

5. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro - The entire ISA100.11a stack is constructed employing widely industry accepted and proven standards - Stack architected in strict adherence to the reference ISO model - Currently implemented on top of 802.15.4, however new variants are in the works using different PHY layers (802.15.4a – UWB, giving 6Mbps data throughput) 5 Open standards based solution

6. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 6 Research European Space Agency funded research - 3 projects to date Other partnerships with Research organizations: Sintef Norway and Tecnalia Spain Innovative activities in definition and implementation of wireless standards Research targeted towards inception of wireless communication technology On the ground and in-flight applications Applicability in industrial environment

7. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 7 OEM products Wireless modems, OEM embedded in process automation instruments Wireless router boards (OEM), designed to build reliable, redundant infrastructures Open standard based (ISA100.11a and Wireless Hart)

8. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 8 Products with CDS technology inside ATEX Zone 2 wireless routers (Pepperl+Fuchs, Yokogawa, Stahl) Flow measurement (Flowserve) Valve position monitoring (Eltav) Machine condition monitoring (GE Bently) Gas detection (GasSecure/Draeger, TLV) Industrial process monitoring (Yokogawa) Steam trap monitoring (Spirax Sarco, Bitherm, Armstrong)

9. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 9 Customers Yokogawa - Japan Kongsberg Maritime – Norway GasSecure / Draeger - Norway Stahl – Germany Pepperl+Fuchs – Germany Thales Alenia Space – France GE Bently – USA GE MDS – USA Armstrong – USA Tyco Scott - USA Spirax Sarco – UK Bitherm - Spain

10. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro 10 End user applications Gas monitoring on oil platforms and refineries (with Kongsberg Maritime and GasSecure/Draeger – for StatOil Norway) Personnel monitoring in hazardous locations (with Tecnalia for Petronor Spain) Temperature and vibration monitoring for satellite assembly (for Thales Alenia Space France)

11. Industrial Wireless Communications @Control Data Systems, www.cds.rowww.cds.ro Industrial Wireless Communications 11 Control Data Systems