Wash.,  says, “The biggest thing in designing an application is picking which direction to go. There’s a lot of excitement around wireless right now. This is good. Ten to 15 years ago, wireless was a black box. Now there are purposes for it. Right now, the best-selling systems are in water/wastewater SCADA over long distances. Implementations have come to be based on Ethernet. There’s enough bandwidth now to add video as well.

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