Wireless solutions provide numerous key benefits and enable novel services and applications compared to wired solutions:
- Reduction of weight in weight-sensitive environments
- Increased flexibility and re-configurability
- Enabling of easy switching of network topologies
- Ease of configuration and self-configuration
- Eliminating errors from faulty wiring
- Increased reliability through monitoring for reduced tear and wear
- Providing redundant backups to wired solutions
- Reduction of installation costs by simplified deployment procedures etc.
- Making possible easy, cost-effective feature updates
- Enabling novel “bring your own device” applications