SCADA for the rest of Us: Unlicensed bands supporting long-range communications

Abstract

The Internet and wireless communication services have grown in recent decades into mass market infrastructures. Their on-going convergence holds the promise of a pervasive communications fabric that is always and everywhere accessible for everyone and everything that wants to communicate. With such a capability comes the prospect of widespread automation and real-time control of real-world systems, or equivalently, the cyber real-world convergence.