Communicaing through steel
Communicaing through steel
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Is it possible to have reliable wireless communication from inside a steel vessel with steel walls about 5mm thick?
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RE: Communicaing through steel
Dan - Owner

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to monitor workers in enclosed spaces.Overa range of a few Km
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You'll need an external antenna... trying to broadcast internally through a steel sheet would require enough power to cook the occupants.
Dan - Owner

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what we will probably do is have a portable transmitter
on each worker transmitting to a central station inside the enclosure - that connected to an external antenna transmitting to a remote data station.
I am not that familiar with radio my backround is more electrical engineering but would it be possible to use the
Steel vessel as an antenna or would that be impractical
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If these assumptions are true, then it wouldn't be difficult to provide them with walkie-talkies (the usual sort with BNC antenna jacks on top) and long antenna extension cables running outside (tied to the harness) to some external magnet mount antennas. All of this gear is readily available and off-the-shelf.
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There are passive repeaters, (basically two back to back antennas connected together), but they are not really going to help.
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the wireless capability of wireless internet to laptops pdas and the like.I am going to be using industrial grade data transmitters and recievers dont think wlan repeaters be able to be integrated in such a system.But if it can be done - I would be happy to hear how.
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We do this with the inductrial radios to get over and around large obstructions, and will work in your situation.
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Doors could also be electrically isolated from the vessel wall, forming a 2nd conductor(wall to ground). Communication devices could take power while passing messages through the door.
Regards,
Gonzalo
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