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Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability (spectrum.ieee.org)
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[–] [email protected] 195 points 10 months ago (14 children)

The renewed focus on reliability is motivated by emerging applications. Imagine a wireless factory robot in a situation where a worker suddenly steps in front of it and the robot needs to make an immediate decision.

This example is a real WTF. I really hope nobody is planning on building safety-critical real-time systems on top of WiFi!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

If your robot moves around, then it needs a wireless connection. And it doesn't really get any more reliable than wifi. I'm certainly not going to outsource that to a Verizon cellular connection.

And even for things that can be wired - ethernet is far from reliable. Cables are easily damaged or simply unplugged.

Wifi can work really well, especially with high end networking gear (and not, for example, the wifi access point you get for free from Verizon).

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think the point is that that sort of safety critical stuff should be on board, not relying on a wireless connection.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yesh it should be self contained. Although to be fair there shouldn't be a way for a human to be there to begin with.

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