Remember the lever, atlatl and sling? More recently, remember block-and-tackle, Vice-Grip locking pliers and the compound bow? Some are old and some are newer, but they're all ways of extending physical reach and delivering more concentrated power.Wireless is a lot like all of these "force multipliers." It may not get all the recent attention lavished on the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), virtualization, cloud computing and others forms of digitalization, but none of these Johnny-come-lately phenomena would be as powerful without wireless technologies supporting them from behind the scenes. Oh, and wireless can bring in signals that can't be obtained with any…
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