Nexus Radios link Oil Rig to Supply Vessel in Gulf of Thailand

Communicating with walkie-talkies between an oil rig in the Gulf of Thailand and a moving supply vessel moored to a buoy 0.12-0.2 miles (0.2-0.3 km) away proved to be unreliable and severely limiting for staff from Thailand’s largest oil producer. Staff on the oil rig had to be in constant touch with the staff on the vessel which is used for transport and supply but sometimes communications fail totally. So they asked Samart, a local system integrator, to design a new wireless solution that will allow staff on the vessel to communicate with the oil rig at all times as well as allow them access to the Internet via the oil rig’s satellite link.

A wireless link was needed to connect the supply vessel on the left with the oil rig, replacing the previous unreliable walkie-talkie method and also to allow staff on the vessel access to the Internet via the satellite link on the oil rig

Samart collaborated with smartBridges Channel Partner in Thailand, AMD (Advanced Mobile Data), a leading Value Added Distributor of Wireless Broadband Solutions in the Asia Pacific, in this unique deployment which sees smartBridges Nexus access point connecting to a client device on the moving vessel.

Marcus Lim, CEO, AMD, said, “We selected the smartBridges wireless products for this installation because smartBridges produces high end, easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use and cost-effective radios. We surveyed and designed the solution between the oil rig and vessel using the airPoint and airClient Nexus for the point-to-point configuration.”