In addition, many people feel that the operating range of some products is a severe limitation to their effectiveness. As a result, George Zervos, northern Europe managing director at SMC Networks, sounds a cautionary note. There are environments where wireless is difficult to implement and costly due to the structures present, materials used in the structures or other radio interference. Wireless should never be viewed as the only solution. Lloyd also highlighted some of the difficulties involved in implementing wireless systems in certain environments.
Environmental factors can effect the installation dramatically.
Sometimes, thick solid walls in listed buildings are no problem, yet thin plasterboard walls can stop the signal dead. Mobile workforces use a raft of different applications, ranging from field service and maintenance, sales force automation and financial database access. And many of these packages could be accessed simply and easily using mobile devices such as PDAs, Wap-enabled phones and handheld PCs, which makes them ripe for use with wireless datacoms technology.