Wireless Rules
This article describes a breakthrough in wireless transmission speed and quality at Siemens. Not only will proliferation of wireless access and devices have a great impact in commercial markets, it will also impact manufacturing.
Just think of the advances made in the last 15 years in the task of finding and alerting maintenance technicians in a factory. From scream and yell to bulky walkie-talkies seemed a giant step. Then came digital pagers. But they were limited initially to just a few numeric entries. As pagers became better, cell phones became ubiquitous. Not to mention wireless personal digital assistants (PDAs). These devices gave the additional benefit of giving technicians access to not only the actual HMI, but sometimes also to the control program. Response time just keeps getting better.
I think that networking is the technology to watch oever the near term. Not just wireless, but also things like security, device descriptions and connectivity, mobile access, remote access (think what this bandwidth if applicable over a long distance would do to boost the fledgling M2M market).
Now, if we could just get rid of spam... Come on all of you--if we quit clicking and buying, in other words if there were no market, spam would dry up.
Siemens claims gigabit wireless breakthrough. Company says the next generation of wireless data is taking shape in its Munich laboratories. [CNET News.com]
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