• The Challenge A worldwide contractor provides oceanic engineering, survey, project risk and construction support services for oil and gas field development. Depending on a project’ s needs, various configurations of data collection and processing equipment must be installed on vessels – in this case, for surface and underwater positioning. Access to the data of this equipment is through RS-232 and 485 ports. This equipment typically requires the installation of hundreds of feet of cabling to collect and transfer data around the vessel. This is expensive to route to all the need locations, especially on a ship and cabling is inflexible to the changing communication needs and the mobility of the equipment. • The Solution Wireless communications were chosen to provide connectivi

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