July 2013, Vol. 240 No. 7
TechNotes
Software Defined Radio For Pipelines
From lunar excursions to shopping at the local store, wireless radio communications have been popping up everywhere. For more than a quarter century, radio communications have been successfully replacing traditional hardwired communications in a variety of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications. The oil and gas industry is no exception. Long gone should be the days of manual data collection, manual equipment monitoring and manual processing and control. Wireless technologies offer users a variety of possibilities for replacing and/or expanding existing hardwired communications, managing pipelines, tracking assets, collecting remote data and serving as an o

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