Industrial wireless a catch-all phrase that seems to encompass system elements that cross the boundaries of IT, process control, HR, security/safety, and numerous other business units within a typical industrial facility. The advancements in wireless systems performance coupled with the acceptance of wireless devices by seemingly everyone (who doesn't have a cellphone these days!) has led to the precipice of such systems being deployed in ever-increasing numbers in ever-more-difficult locations and facilities. The suite of applications being supported by these devices and systems crosses multiple business units within even a single plant. In many cases the wired and wireless network elements required to support the application are deployed without any sort of cognizant review of other current and near-term wireless applications (and their support network elements). Vendors present a wide assortment of wireless systems and devices to help solve the multitude of applications needs. Enter in the activities underway within SP100, Wireless HART, Wireless Foundation Fieldbus, ZigBee, RFID(EPC Global), Wireless Fidelity Alliance (WiFi) and others. This conglomeration of organizations, each with their own view of the industrial landscape, hits the Users full force with marketing accompanied by writers and analysts assessments of the various gizmos. The net result being that the End Users are hopeful, yet justifiably hesitant, in deploying many of these vendor offerings. The Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA) is based upon providing these Users with coherent, non-marketing-based assessments of current and future trends in the various flavors of industrial wireless technologies and product offerings. This presentation will provide an accurate, current and unbiased assessment of All Things Industrial Wireless both past, current and near-term future in other words a long-overdue sanity check on the state of Industrial Wireless.