Industrial Communications Handbook August 2016

Chapter 2 Radio Basics

So many ‘networking’ installations—Industrial, or otherwise—end up ‘going wireless’ for all the wrong reasons. A perfectly good setup gets ‘upgraded’—and fails dismally.

Most often, it is the simple neglect of the Basics, the elementary Physics, and especially the (not-so) Common Sense that is lacking. ‘Going Wireless’ can seriously add benefit to an Installation, BUT it must be designed , and not just slapped together with little regard to actual radiation and propagation constraints.

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