Building a future-proof wireless measurement system: five guidelines to help ensure your system...

I walked into my favorite hole-in-the-wall restaurant a few weeks ago and, as I scanned through the entree selection, my eye caught a small insert in the corner. It said, "Free wireless Internet here." I contemplated that thought. If wireless has appeared here--in a place that does not accept credit cards and tracks orders at the register by asking patrons to point to where they were sitting--then it really must be everywhere. Interested to learn how well the scientific world has adopted this technology for measurements, I found a 2003 Venture Development Corp. survey on data acqu