Wireless Sensor Technology

Deck: 

Equipment health monitoring for the modern utility.

Fortnightly Magazine - July 2014
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Wireless technology marks a big part of our life today. We use it when we scour our phones for voice, text, or interesting video tid-bits, and as we log on for important messages from home or office.

Yet many other functions that we take for granted now have proliferated. That garage-door opener, that TV remote control, that Internet of Everything - all are enabled by wireless sensors that are getting smaller, smarter, cheaper, and more nimble. The utility industry also has benefitted, but in a more surreptitious manner: the technology has enabled very accurate equipment health monitoring in ways that were not done before nor contemplated.

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