March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
15h 45m
English
As 802.11 Wi-Fi evolved, it became apparent that although it was becoming very useful for connecting laptops and phones, it wasn’t a workable wireless solution for other use cases, such as a field of tiny battery-powered smart sensors on a farm that collect environmental data. These devices are too primitive to be connected to Wi-Fi, broadband point-to-point radios, or GPRS. So, what then?
The huge spike of interest in IoT in consumer and industrial services brought the need for wireless technologies and protocols that addressed specific use cases. These new wireless technologies would have to work with resource-constrained devices and/or be able to share resources across an ad-hoc mesh ...
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