An electronic survey of Industrial Networking readers was conducted in February, 2013, in order to identify usage and application trends of wireless networking among the magazine's readership.
Nearly 57% of survey respondents currently have wireless. 43.2% of respondents do not use wireless. Of the 57% of respondents who have wireless Ethernet the following were the most common types used:
- Wireless HART 31.6%
- 802.11b/g 28.6%
- 802.11n 9.2%
- Proprietary protocol 9.2%
- 802.11a 5.1%
- 802.15.4 (ZigBee) 1%