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As noted in Figure 1.3, there are about 800 000 warehouses and storage buildings in the United States of which, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 18 182 are private warehousing establishments. Warehouses are increasing in size: the average size of warehouses was 182 000 ft² as of 2017. While many of these spaces are “lights off,” an increasing number of high‐capacity warehouses to support e‐commerce are appearing. An increasing number of warehouses and distribution centers are investing in automation and robotics. The communication needs of these venues are very high, some calling these venues “hyper‐connected warehouses”: wireless technology and real‐time inventory tracking are being adopted by nearly all operators using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags attached to each inventory item, barcoding, IoT, and Global Positioning System (GPS) to transmit real‐time data to and from the warehouse floor and inventory management applications [15, 16].