PURPOSE
There is currently a great need for open standards to provide economically viable digital communication interfaces between transducers and microprocessors. The purpose of this revision is to make IEEE-1451.2-1997 more widely usable to a larger set of cost sensitive applications. Without a cost effective, easy-to-implement, independent, openly defined transducer interface standard, the development of remote sensing applications for safety, security, industrial automation, and other remote monitoring/ remote control applications will continue to be hindered.