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Old 5th Nov 2010, 14:38
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AndoniP
 
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speaking from an IT standpoint, i'd be reluctant to implement any kind of wireless communications on critical systems. Maybe as a backup yes, but not the primary source. Primary must always be hard wired. If this communication fails then yes wireless could be used as secondary.

Wireless comms isn't quite there yet for these kinds of applications. It's still susceptible to the odd glitch - the main one being the power requirements and most importantly, wireless reception loss.

as an aside i believe the rolls royce service is called power by the hour, where they can remotely analyse the telemetry in realtime back at their base.
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