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Was your pick for the Final 4 correct? Is your budget ready for Wireless Application Systems?

We can’t help you if you didn’t choose the right NCAA team for the 2011 Final Four. But we can help you with your budget planning for the wireless application systems you want to implement at your facility. As you know, a key plant management responsibility is planning for the future: ensuring that the plant delivers a competitive performance efficiently and cost effectively in a safe and secure environment. Whether you are looking to expand your wireless infrastructure by adding more wireless applications or moving to wireless for the first time, Apprion, the provider of cost-effective industrial wireless application systems and services can help you build your 2011 and 2012 industrial wireless application system plans. The Industrial Wireless Application Systems Planning and Budgeting Checklist can help you:

• Evaluate applications for video monitoring, condition monitoring, communications, asset tracking, safety and security and more
• Effectively plan and execute your 2011 approved budget
• Build your budgetary business case for your 2012 budget, and
• Understand more about successfully deploying wireless at your plant.

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Multipath Wireless In An Industrial Environment
By John Welch – Apprion Wireless Advisor

Try to imagine a single wireless source transmitter and a receiver in an industrial setting. When a radio frequency signal is transmitted towards the receiver, the general behavior of the RF signal is to grow wider as it is transmitted further. In an industrial environment the obstacles refract, diffract or interfere with the signal and many obstacles that the signal encounters during its travel are highly reflective. These reflected RF signals propagate throughout the area as duplicate wave fronts. In other words, they are copies of the original signal.

Multipath propagation can be defined as the combination of signals as they take different paths from a single source to a destination. Sometimes, a part of the signal goes directly to the destination while another part bounces off an obstruction, and then goes on to the destination. As a result, part of the signal encounters delay as it travels a longer path to the destination.

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After budget approvals and preliminary project plans are in place, Apprion recommends an Industrial Wireless Site Plan that includes measuring your wireless spectrum and mapping out your wireless applications before you implement. The Wireless Site Plan includes profiling and evaluation of your facility’s current infrastructure, RF analysis and extensive planning for future integrated architecture plans and an application roadmap. A strategic approach to wireless implementation saves time, money and enables a scalable wireless infrastructure for future applications and systems implementations.

Put your 2011 Strategic Plan in Place – Download the Industrial Wireless Site Plan »

 
About Apprion
Apprion delivers industrial wireless application systems and services for the process manufacturing industry. These wireless application systems are based on Apprion's ION System. Integrated into the ION System are five applications that are core to industrial wireless application networks: Asset Tracking, Communications, Condition Monitoring, Workforce Mobility, and Video.

Whether it is the need to address safety or security concerns, reduce maintenance or material costs, or improve productivity or asset utilization, a wireless application network from Apprion will assure that any wireless application is easier to deploy and manage while delivering value faster, more efficiently. For more information, visit www.apprion.com.

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