/technologies/wireless/b/blog/posts/industrial-wi-fiA recent article about the difficulties of Machine-to-Machine wireless reminded me of when I first learned about industrial wireless nine years ago. I was starting a job in the wireless department of a company focused on industrial automation c...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/technologies/wireless/b/blog/posts/industrial-wi-fiSun, 30 Jun 2013 19:46:32 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:5d53fa87-6840-4958-901b-f4e50bb2c89fDAB0<p>Good post.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It reminds me of my early years adventures in complex communications in demanding environments.</p><p>Using Frequency hopping provided a lot of benefits, both in sharing bandwidth, put also in message integrity.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It always amazes me how people just assume they will always have connection.&nbsp; Wireless has come a long way from the early days.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But then I am amazed how people treat 2.4 Ghz on a PC antenna when I had to use waveguides and a lot of tricks to make RF work with digital.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The wonders of progress.</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=16101&AppID=5&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">