Wireless systems in commercial buildings offer the potential to reduce the installed cost of communicating sensed data by supplanting or augmenting wired infrastructure with digital radio-based communications. A generic wireless data transmission system includes transmitters and receivers, and a translator to allow the wireless receiver to communicate with a control network. It may also use repeaters to increase the range of wireless signals. Basic wireless systems include wire replacement systems, where the sensor, transmitter and receiver use line power but communicate wirelessly, and fully wireless schemes (i.e., having all battery-powered components).
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