I totally agree. But he wants to know why not use it...so, aside from the f= irmware overhead to support it, like to estimate the cost differences as we= ll. Mike Harrison wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2006 09:19:03 -= 0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Whats your estimated hardware costs for the WiFi portion? > >Olin Lathrop wrote: alan smith wrote: >> Client has asked....possibility of doing a WiFi with a PIC. Well...the >> project in discussion is for a large greenhouse facility and monitoring >> temps and other stuff. Wifi would probably overkill for this - a more appropriate way may be low c= ost sensor/transmitters on one of the unlicensed UHF bands sending short packets every few minutes = to one or more receivers, depending on distance - the receiver could either be a PC or a data concent= rator that bulks up the data to send via wifi/GSM/GPRS etc. = -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist = --------------------------------- How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger=92s low PC-to-Phone call ra= tes. -- = http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist