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Mounting Wireless Radios Outdoors Offers Benefits

By |March 2nd, 2020|Best Practices|Comments Off on Mounting Wireless Radios Outdoors Offers Benefits

For years now, we’ve recommended outdoor mounting for our industrial wireless radios. The benefits are both operational and financial. Outdoor mounting allows the radio to be placed close to the antenna. In fact, in some applications, the antenna can be directly attached to the radio. The proximity reduces the distance between the radio and the antenna, decreasing the signal [...]

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Using Industrial Wireless Networks for Mining Applications

By |January 28th, 2020|Applications|Comments Off on Using Industrial Wireless Networks for Mining Applications

Mining, with its harsh conditions and long distances, can provide serious communications challenges, which industrial wireless networks are well-suited to overcome. Offering a full range of operating frequencies, ESTeem’s industrial wireless radios are a particularly good fit, and we’ve seen great success in a number of difficult mining applications. [...]

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Securing Your Wireless Network

By |December 20th, 2019|Best Practices|Comments Off on Securing Your Wireless Network

Some people think that simply setting a password provides enough security for their industrial wireless networks. But there are others who want their networks locked down behind a multi-layer fortress of security. In either case – and for any case in between, ESTeem can provide a suitable answer. But first, let’s talk about why security is [...]

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Completing Edge-to-Edge Connectivity, Anywhere, Anytime

By |November 15th, 2019|Corporate News, Product Updates|Comments Off on Completing Edge-to-Edge Connectivity, Anywhere, Anytime

The Digital Transformation, IoT, Smart Manufacturing and the Connected Workforce are fundamentally transforming today’s automation networks. Increasing productivity and efficiency depends on access to real-time information. But for any of this “Big Data” to be useful and actionable information, it must be captured and processed. Reliably, securely and consistently. Anywhere. Anytime. Simply stated: An [...]

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Data Rate, Throughput and Your Ethernet Radios

By |September 23rd, 2019|Best Practices, Ethernet Radios|Comments Off on Data Rate, Throughput and Your Ethernet Radios

Data rate vs. throughput is an important consideration when evaluating Ethernet radios. Data rate is the total amount of data that can be transmitted from one radio to the other, but it only tells part of the story. The meat of the story is represented by a radio’s throughput – the amount of your information that can actually be transmitted by the radio. [...]

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Network Monitoring Made Simple

By |August 26th, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Network Monitoring Made Simple

Network monitoring can be inconvenient, to say the least. It normally requires different programs or software to access the important information needed to assess the network’s overall health. There are times when you need to know signal strength, data rate and other critical indications of your network’s performance without jumping through a lot of hoops. Our Horizon series of industrial wireless radios solves that problem by collecting and providing all crucial network data in Modbus TCP, one of the most commonly used industrial protocols. [...]

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Wireless Radios for Water and Wastewater Applications

By |July 24th, 2019|Applications, Best Practices|Comments Off on Wireless Radios for Water and Wastewater Applications

Water and wastewater systems don’t run themselves. A lot of sophisticated monitoring and automated control goes into ensuring a community’s water needs are met day in and day out. These include things like monitoring and controlling: Pump status (on/off/hours run) and flow ratesWater levels in wells and tanksSluice gate positionsReservoir levelsIntrusion alarms and security measures One of the many [...]

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Australian Port Taps ESTeem’s Ethernet Radios for Unique Application

By |June 24th, 2019|Case Studies, Wireless Network Design|Comments Off on Australian Port Taps ESTeem’s Ethernet Radios for Unique Application

Fremantle Ports in Western Australia had a problem. They had hundreds of buoys throughout the port waters but no good way to monitor the buoys’ status. They needed a reliable method of retrieving buoy information like position, battery voltage, solar panel charging, light status, and equipment faults. Keeping tabs on the buoys is particularly important because maintenance crews use the information to maintain the buoys in a high state of performance. [...]

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Industrial Wireless Networks & Video Transmission

By |April 25th, 2019|Best Practices, Wireless Network Design|Comments Off on Industrial Wireless Networks & Video Transmission

Can industrial wireless networks successfully handle video transmissions? The short answer is yes, but if you say “video,” most people automatically think YouTube or Netflix. Video, however, plays a crucial role in many industrial applications, enhancing security measures, deterring vandalism, increasing safety and monitoring remote locations or operations. [...]

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ESTeem Dual Wi-Bridge: Industrial Wireless Networks X2

By |March 18th, 2019|Best Practices, Wireless Network Design|Comments Off on ESTeem Dual Wi-Bridge: Industrial Wireless Networks X2

There is a new feature available in the ESTeem Horizon series radios that will create two isolated industrial wireless networks to run side-by-side, that seamlessly flow across a common wireless infrastructure for secure and segmented networking.  This feature is available for free by simply updating the Horizon radios to the latest software version, but how does it work? [...]

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