The Industrial Wi-Fi Shop Podcast – Ep. 12 Lucky number 7!

Advantech CVE

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/critical-vulnerabilities/

Wireless and 5g impact on smart manufacturing

https://iebmedia.com/technology/industrial-5g-wireless/industrial-wireless-impact-on-smart-manufacturing/

Cisco CURWB CVE’s

https://thehackernews.com/2024/11/cisco-releases-patch-for-critical-urwb.html

Critical vulnerability in Cisco industrial wireless access points fixed (CVE-2024-20418)

Mobility Field Day 12 Announcement

WiFi and CURWB simultaneously

• Remove need for parallel infrastructure
• Is this a headache? (Yes)
• Implications
• Local and FlexConnect support

Drones in manufacturing

• site surveys
• But what else?
• RFID inventory like at BMW
• LiDar mapping?

Siemens

• LTE backwards compatible
• CBRS
• Private 5G
• Public carriers (it depends) certifications in process for some.
• WiFi 7 rumblings, I hear it is on the roadmap

Phoenix Contact

• 2 current Wi-Fi 6 industrial wireless access point models
• 6e models in the works

Waveriders Collective

• ad hoc 5G deployments
• will these be usable for bringing plants back online/bridging a permanent infrastructure
• POCs

R3

• Edge X is 802.11 but has m2 slot and is looking to support echo ring at some point.
• soft PLC on board
• Edge X is the platform as well.

https://www.r3.group/de/support-downloads/?file=files/media/downloads/products/R3_Edge-X_DataSheet_EN_2024-11.pdf&cid=1911

Fortinet

• Products coming out next year will include a host of industrial geared hardware.
• WiFi 7 and 5G capabilities. 
• Leaning on track record and security focus.

Aunex

• axe client (data sheet)
• Data Eagle (Scott will like this) 2.4/BT/900 MHz time sensitive protocol focus
• CIP etc

RTLS? Are any listeners deploying this? Send us an email.

Sub Gig

• Meshtastic, is it useable in Industrial or is it still sorta niche/fun (Line of sight)
• https://meshtastic.org/

Wi-Fi 7 possibilities in Industry, manufacturing and safety

• Are massive gains in throughput a selling point for manufacturing
  • 4096 QAM
  • Massive channel widths (320 plus non-contiguous)
  • What about Multi-Link Operation (MLO), a feature that increases capacity by simultaneously sending and receiving data across different frequency bands and channels. (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 6 GHz)
• Wi-Fi 7 claims dramatically lower overall latency
• Probably going to be great for camera systems.

Oscium/Metageek

• Q1 planned discussion around the merger, spectrum analysis, potential new hardware, 

old friends

WLAN Pi 

• App and API
• M4 Plus
• OTG
• Go
• HaLow surveying?

WLPC 2025

• Surveying private cellular Mark Houtz looks like it is on the horizon. Heatmaps, pcaps, oh my

• https://markhoutz.com/
• Presenting on this at WLPC Phoenix 2025
• WLPC 10 talk on site surveys in machine cells and entertainment…

WiCo 

-Chapel Hill NC- 5/14 -Scott presenting on …

-Nashville 5/29- Jeremy possible presentation on CURWB

What’s coming up for the IWS in 2025?

• Some great guests lined up
  • Oscium – Lord High Commanders of Spectrum Analysis
  • Dr. Rick Candell from NIST/IEEE
  • Dr. Emmett Brown to discuss 1.21 gigawatt power thresholds
  • The gang from Industrial Wireless manufacturers Phoenix Contact
• January will be the 1 year anniversary of the IWS!!!
• New CWNP study guide giveaway opportunity!