Wireless Telemetry

Without wireless telemetry your cell phone would be next to useless. The information transmitted from your phone is received and transferred along a network of wireless telemetry receivers/broadcasters until it reaches its eventual destination, which is the other phone or computer to which you are dialing.

Wireless telemetry also supports wireless LAN networks, and wireless telemetry systems allow the creation of ever larger networks. Wireless telemetry receivers/transmitters can vary greatly in size and complexity depending on the network load and broadcast range they are expected to support. Very large wireless telemetry units are used in conjunction with orbiting satellites and allow for a nearly instant global flow of information. Wireless telemetry is the core technology supporting that cool GPS system (although you seem to be lost just as often!) in your car, and your wireless internet access via your PDF.

Intrinsically safe, wireless telemetry systems generally transmit information using sophisticated encryption technology to safeguard the privacy and security of the network.

Industrial applications of wireless telemetry are myriad. SCADA wireless telemetry involves the transfer of wireless information via radio frequency, and is a low cost solution benefiting rural industrial applications. The wireless telemetry market for industrial monitoring in out of the way areas is huge. Water, oil and gas companies remotely monitor remote tanks and wells using simple SCADA wireless telemetry transmitters. Much cheaper than running telephone lines hundreds of miles to a remote site! Before wireless telemetry, often the only solution was to post an employee remotely on-site. No doubt these technicians have welcomed the advent of wireless telemetry and their return to civilization!

Wireless telemetry offers industrial wireless sensoring in what were previously unreachable environments. Of particular relevance is wireless telemetry for gas turbine applications. Gas turbines provide most of the electricity produced in the nation today. These gas turbines are enormously complex and hostile environments. Wireless telemetry applications, in conjunction with thermally protected wireless remote sensors affixed to key areas within the gas turbine, provide the information technicians need to keep these large turbine systems functioning at optimal capacity, while allowing the modifications needed to increase local efficiency and reduce overall emissions output. Wireless telemetry inside a gas turbine engine also provides additional safety information, critical to technicians evaluating the performance of the machine.

Unseen wireless telemetry powers the information exchange that fuels our everyday life. You may not think much about wireless telemetry, but you use it every day!