Integration between Radio and Satellite Phone System

Authors- Ahmad Alotaibi, Hussain Alsalman, Khalid Alhajri, Humoud Alrashidi

Abstract-Reat-time data communication from a point to another point is one of the crucial things for large enterprises especially in the oil and gas fields since they have several plants and rigs in remote areas which requite real-time and reliable communication to ensure that the business and operations are running smooth without any interruption in order to achieve corporate values. The main communication method inside the plants is handheld radio over radio base stations while the main communication method for rigs is utilizing satellite phone over through LEO satellite. Integrating the two systems through establishing direct connectivity between radio servers and satellite phone servers are vulnerable to several major threats that might impact the enterprise operations and security since satellite phone TAE3 encryption. This paper sheds light on a solution that integrate radio and satellite phone system through a box that contains a microcontroller, handheld radio and satellite phone to provide a real-time and reliable communication between plants and rigs. This solution is done by utilizing an intelligent box. The paper highlights the motivation of inventing this solution. After that, the major elements of the intelligent box and its working mechanism will be discussed. Finally, some challenges and difficulties are going to be presented, and then the paper proposes some solutions to overcome such challenges.

DOI: /10.61463/ijset.vol.12.issue3.185