Wireless Networks at Competitions

[Richard McClellan]

Originally Posted by EHaskins

Personally I don't think that any such restrictions would be practical or even possible to enforce, and if the new control system can't handle some other networks in the same area, then we're going to have some big problems next year, especially with the number of wireless networks growing like they are.

According to Bill Miller, Director of FRC, at the Mentor Q&A during this year's Championship, they would be policing the air waves with some powerful tracking system that would allow identification of a wireless router or something in a team's pit. I'm not exactly sure of the details, but it sounds like it will be enforced.