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With wireless becoming more mainstream, designers are faced with new challenges of porting current wired designs for rf telemetry. This often requires engineers to learn about all the fancy wireless protocols, complex RF propagation, and wireless standards. Making you’re own wireless solution is an option, but it’s not for the faint at heart as there are many challenges that will be faced. Making you’re own solution will require in-depth knowledge of high frequency circuit board design including routing, impedance matching, and filtering. Additional obstacles involve firmware programming for the protocol stack in order to preserve system inter polarity, data integrity and reliability. This usually requires a large team of engineers to design and manufacture the product. It takes a lot of these resources to bring the product to market, but more importantly, it takes time for development. Most engineering firms want to implement wireless on a budget and within a reasonable time frame.

Instead of designing a wireless solution from scratch, you could find a vendor that manufactures a wireless module. For quick and frustration free development, the best route is to use a wireless transceiver module which will make signal interfacing easy. The best wireless modules will allow the designer to use common interfaces to speak with the modules, including direct analog or digital I/O. All electronic engineers know these interfaces well which allows development to be intuitive. The signals are sampled on one wireless node and then regenerated at the other wireless node. The best wireless modules will use extensive algorithms and techniques to reduce interference and maintain data reliability. This allows the wireless to become transparent to the designer, allowing them to treat the wireless like a familiar wired bus. Most importantly, using wireless modules means that designers will save precious time during development and still create reliable and powerful wireless links.