Mobile Radio Technology talks this month with UMR's own Kelvin Erickson about his efforts to use the nation's gas pipelines to build wireless networks.

“A big part of dealing with pipelines is the aspect of inspection," said Richard Baker, project manager with the Gas Technology Management Division of DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory. “The methodology that they used in this project was a novel approach to communicating to connection devices inside the lines because it actually was looking at using the pipeline as a wave guide for a communications signal."

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