No wires equals no limits

摘要

In this article, Mike Ferris, European marketing manager for Smart Wireless at Emerson Process Management, looks at the benefits of using wireless technologies in an industrial environment. Many of us take advantage of wireless technology - whether listening to the radio, talking on a mobile phone, changing television channels with a remote control or wirelessly accessing the Internet using 'wireless hot spots'. Wireless technology is also regularly in use in the process industry. Oil and gas companies, for example, often use wireless devices to monitor remote fields and pipelines.