Multicap's Luc Thierens comments on maturing process of wireless technologies
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Early 2008, even Belgian quality newspaper 'De Tijd', with its focus on politics and economy, realised that wireless has become a mature, reliable, secure and therefore interesting solution for professional environments. Its one-page article published on Friday, January 11 features a long comment by Luc Thierens, sales & marketing manager with Belgian wireless market leader Multicap.
At first, the article is focussing on the enormous increase of the public hotspot market with wireless hotspots being implemented in hamburger restaurants or gas stations. Our colleague Luc, however, emphasizes the fact that that is distracting the attention from where WiFi is currently (already) making the difference: in critical projects! 'Especially industrial customers are making a large and swift overtaking manouvre when it comes to the implementation of WiFi', Luc is stating. According to him, wireless technologies have grown much more reliable and easier to secure, which originally was a problem with WiFi. As a logical consequence, wireless is now popping up in unexpected places such as dredging vessels. Moreover, it is often used by security enterprises, e.g. for the secure transfer of camera images. 'Both the City of Antwerp as the Belgian Federal Police are transferring their data wirelessly over WiFi networks', Luc Thierens adds. STEEL PLATES In indoor environments too, companies are increasingly relying on wireless networks. 'And that not just for data and video images, buth also for voice calls over IP or to remotely steer machines'. Thierens quotes a couple of examples of production halls in which driverless vehicles, equipped with wireless intelligence, are picking up steel plates when delivered which they then bring to the warehouses. Outside industry, schools and health care institutes are starting to acknowledge the advantages of WiFi networks. 'Medical monitoring equipment is increasingly featuring WiFi technologies standardly, e.g. for the transfer of metering results', Thierens says. 'It is typically in such a critical environment that WiFi's real added value is showing'!
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