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The innovation leader with more than 40 years of sensor development and application expertise, Banner understands the challenges of sensing in manufacturing and process industries. Banner has more than 3,000 factory and field representatives worldwide, as well as the largest force of application engineers in the industry who solve thousands of the most challenging applications every year.
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Wireless Terms
FHSS - Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum. A method for generating spread spectrum transmissions where the signal is switched between different frequency channels in a pseudorandom sequence known by both the transmitter and the receiver pair. FHSS is useful for sending small, redundant packets of data in a high interference environment.
FlexPower™ systems allow for a true wireless solution as the Node can be powered by line power
RF - Radio Frequency. Electro- magnetic signals in the radio band.
Rx/Tx - Receive. Transmit.
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access. A wireless network communication architecture that provides a given slot of time for each device on the network. Provides guaranteed opportunity for each device to transmit to the gateway.
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