New podcast: One road to wireless instrumentation

If you are considering wireless instrumentation, particularly those devices using the WirelessHART protocol, you can learn more about how that system came to be in , co-founder and CTO of Dust Networks , discusses how he and his associates developed many building blocks that have been incorporated into current wireless mesh-networking

Pister discusses many of the triumphs and failures along the path to today’s wireless instrumentation, along with some interesting facts:

• His earliest research was using MEMS (micro electro-mechanical systems) techniques to create micro robots;

• The first attempts used optical transmission rather than radio frequency communication;

• How he outfitted every chair at a 2001 Intel developer’s conference with a wireless sensor; and

• Covering more than just history, he discusses current applications and where he sees the industry headed.

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—Peter Welander, process industries editor, PWelander@cfemedia.com ,
Control Engineering Process Instrumentation & Sensors Monthly
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