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Ready Or Not Wireless Is Here
Questions about reliability and squabbles over standards have made many automation professionals wary of using wireless technology for control and instrumentation—but not Mark Hass. For him, wireless instrumentation and control has been a key part of his plan for improving process reliability in the Crescenta Valley Water District just outside Los Angeles....
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