The invention relates to a fuel injector having an orifice region in which an orifice passage extends along an injector axis and ends at an orifice edge. A communication unit conducts data transmissionreception with an external data communication apparatus, and a controller controls the communication unit to operate in one of a network mode or a broadcast mode. The design provides a dual-linear or time-delay-integration sensor operating in a split readout configuration mode to simultaneously provide data from two regions of the sensor using two sets of readout circuitry. The shuffle instruction and the DEAL instruction have an exactly inverse effect. At intermediate transmission stations, signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs cause control processors and computers to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers, recorderplayers, computers, generators, strippers, etc.