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This, combined with the continuous growth of low-cost mobile devices, creates opportunities to develop innovative and powerful applications that, in many cases, rely on computing and memory-intensive algorithms and low-latency requirements. However, as the density of connected wireless devices increases, the spectral noise density rises, and, consequently, the radio interference between radio devices increase. In this paper, we discuss how the density of AR\/VR mobile applications with high throughput and low latency affect industrial environments where other wireless devices use the same frequency channel. We also discuss how the growing number of these applications may have an impact on the radio interference of wireless networks. We present an agnostic methodology to assess the radio interferences between wireless communication systems on the factory floor by using appropriate radio and system models. Several interference scenarios are simulated between commonly used radio systems: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and WirelessHART, using SEAMCAT. For a 1% probability of interference and considering a criterion of C\/I = 14 dB, the simulations on an 80 m \u00d7 80 m factory shop floor show that low-bandwidth systems, such as Bluetooth and WirelessHART, can coexist with high-bandwidth and low-latency AR\/VR applications running on Wi-Fi mobile terminals if the number of 11 Wi-Fi access points and 80 mobile AR\/VR devices transmitting simultaneously is not exceeded.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/electronics12010067","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,27]],"date-time":"2022-12-27T07:02:12Z","timestamp":1672124532000},"page":"67","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Radio Interference of Wireless Networks and the Impact of AR\/VR Applications in Industrial Environments"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6810-2447","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rog\u00e9rio","family":"Dion\u00edsio","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-081 Castelo Branco, Portugal"},{"name":"DiSAC\u2013Research Unit on Digital Services, Applications and Contents, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal"},{"name":"INESC TEC-Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1225-3844","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fernando","family":"Ribeiro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-081 Castelo Branco, Portugal"},{"name":"DiSAC\u2013Research Unit on Digital Services, Applications and Contents, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7327-2109","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9","family":"Metr\u00f4lho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, 6000-081 Castelo Branco, Portugal"},{"name":"DiSAC\u2013Research Unit on Digital Services, Applications and Contents, 6000-767 Castelo Branco, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Poor, R., and Hodges, B. 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