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Douglas Morris Director of Marketing, Mining & Power Industries Author: Douglas Morris Wireless measurement devices are nothing new and installations are in just about every industry, including power. From my experience, power plants don’t choose to use wireless technologies to replace wired devices, rather they are used to solve some of those monitoring applications where the cost of laying copper is simply too expensive. Those utilities that have deployed the technology in monitoring applications have found the additional data helpful to operations. One customer had a problem with strainers clogging on raw water intake piping and used wireless pressure transmitters to detect plugging. This simple measurement prevented a constant maintenance problem. Another plant uses wireless devices as a means to better manage ash ponds and gain early insight into any changes at these ponds. Still others are using acoustic devices to track leakage from steam traps and relief valves. What users... Read the full text.