12 Wireless Options for IoT/M2M: Diversity or Dilemma? (.PDF Download)

June 17, 2016

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a massive collection of sensors, actuators, and/or devices either connected to one another or to some master control or monitoring point via the internet.  Multiple communications links are used to make the connection...

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