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Wireless Networking Technologies for Industry

The use of wireless communications is being rapidly implemented in the industrial environment with great success provided certain ground rules are applied such as ensuring a robust wireless link, correct integration with the wired communications systems and proper data security.

The most important objective of wireless communications networks must be to achieve similar capacities, bandwidths, responsiveness and availability to that of wire based communications.

This manual commences with an overview of wireless communications and how radio works. A detailed examination is then made of Wireless Personal Area Networks or WPANs (Bluetooth/IEEE 802.15) which are similar to their wired counterparts but based on radio. Wireless Local Area Networks or WLANs (IEEE 802.11) are then reviewed with a practical comparison to the standard wired LANs. Wireless Wide Area Networks are then examined with an emphasis on how they are expanding to provide broadband services.

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You will learn : Understand current wireless networking offerings on the market Apply today's wireless technology to industrial automation Understand basic radio/wireless concepts Implement their own simple Wireless LAN (WLAN) for their office and industrial plant Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the different wireless technologies Describe standards such as Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15) and IEEE 802.11 Indicate how Wide Area technologies such as MMDS and LMDS can be applied Implement effective security on their networks Describe how spectrum and frequency allocation is done Be able to conduct a site survey in preparation for a WLAN implementation Understand the basic terminology and jargon used in this area