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The challenges of interference within modern industrial systems

By Milica D. Djekic

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The new industrial revolution being known as 4 generation of industrial systems would bring us
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a completely new approach to industry’s assets. The 4 industrial revolution would make us
deal with the more sophisticated and more complex solutions that would seek a certain level of
the skills. As it’s well known – this technology would be cyber-based or in, other words, it would
rely on new advancements such as computers, web and mobile devices.

Many industrial plants being used for those purposes would get designers who would believe
that if they choose the wireless solutions – they would reduce the amount of wires being applied
in their infrastructure and consequently reduce the cost for those wirings.

People would so often think that wireless technologies got so convenient, but very few of them
would realize that they bring with themselves a certain amount of the risk regarding interference
and some health’s concerns being correlated with the quite high level of electromagnetic
radiation getting present in the room.

The new generation industrial systems would start becoming the part of our reality. The very
small percentage of the industry’s assets is already equipped with the emerging technology.
The main reason why the industry’s giants would invest into a new technology is that such an
investment could bring them the good amount of profit once it begins to get exploited. It’s well
known from the economy that any investment into new technologies could increase the
productivity and effectiveness through the working process and consequently boost the incomes
to such a factory.

That’s the crucial reason why industrial giants would make a decision to put more money, time
and effort to develop and run the new generation assets. In those cases, they would follow the
cost-effective solution being suggested with a today’s knowledge and experience getting
present within an expert’s community.

Many designers would recommend that we should use wireless technologies as something
being much cheaper than the wired solutions. Following such an approach – many technological
and financial experts would get their projects being approved for a reason they would rely on
wireless systems having a certain level of advantage over the wired ones.

We would agree that sometimes it’s so complicated to handle all those wirings and as it’s known
– the concepts of wireless transmission of information as well as power are well-researched and
it’s logical that engineers would cope good with those results.

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