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The Two O'Clock Stop: Industrial Wireless and 5G for OT
Every afternoon at about two, a chemical plant's warehouse robots freeze with safety timeouts, and a vendor proposes private 5G. Automation lead Ingrid Solberg-Achebe asks radio engineer Tomasz Rahimi to look first. In episode one hundred and fifty we learn why steel, multipath and Fresnel zones make plants the worst radio environments, why the tail of the latency distribution matters more than the average, and how channel hopping on IEEE 802.15.4 made WirelessHART and ISA100 reliable enough for process instruments. We see why Wi-Fi roaming hurts vehicles, how TSN gates queues like level…
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