Industrial Walkie Talkie

how to communicate between two PC via LAN similar to using walkie talkie or two way radio

i am doing commissioning in a industrial site were we mostly use walkie talkie or two way radio from motorolla to communicate with the person in field and the person in control room.

now getting a radio sometimes seems difficult and sometimes communication will not be clear due to building / wall obstruction.

now i have LAN setup between all the sites linked to central control room.

these LANs are not connected to internet. its a industrial LAN used for industrial devices to communicate to Central Control room.

now i want to use these LAN to communicate between field and control room using PC. is it possible to communicate using voice. is there a simple method to communicate without spending much.

These requirements are temporary until we finish off our commissioning which has a period of two months.
for these two months i want to communicate with my colleage in control room.

i usually stay in field and do the commissioning my actions will be reflected in controlroom but i need to know the results for these i used use radio to ask the other person in control room for verification. this verification goes throughout the day. sometime i use mobile phone to ask him. but i spend lots of money on the communication.

Always i also have a notebook pc at site and he also has a server(pc) at control room i just thought if we could communicate each other via LAN than expensive mobile phone.

many thanks

If they all have Internet access the obvious choice is skype. It will work on LAN but it requires an internet connection to establish the connection after that it is peer to peer over the LAN and doesn't leave the LAN.

Either way what you are talking about is called VoIP, Voice over Internet Protocol, and the use you described is referred to as VOIP over Ethernet.

2009-10-09 04:30:30 by procs

showing off some cool tech relevant to the emergency services industry. First is the APX P25 walkie-talkie which has be completely redesigned to ...

- 4 snipers used in a triangulated crossfire.

- Men wearing helments and talking into walkie talkies.

- Snipers are clean shaven. They all have short hair cuts. They are dressed like car mechanics.

What type of assassins am I describing ? CIA assassins ? Military Industrial Complex ? What ?

A well planned assasination. Could be any orginization. Why? Are there clean shaven mechanics on your neighbors roof pointing snipers at you? If so forget their orginization and run. And you might want to destroy the computer chip on your way out. I had the same problem a few weeks ago. (JK)

2008-06-07 12:55:38 by g5z6b1

Price: $225.00

VOX with three sensitivity levels; tri-color LED with transmit, receive, and low battery indication
38 analog and 83 digital interference eliminator codes; 12 hours battery life
Three voice-inversion scramble settings to minimize eavesdropping; three audible call tones
Two-way radio with up to two watts power (one-watt low power setting); two channels; two programmable buttons
Designed to IP-55 and MIL-SPEC specifications; channel scan with selectable scan list

1 . 3 - 4 snipers in a triangulated crossfire

2 . Assassins are clean shaven and are dressed like car mechanics.

3. Men wearing helments and are talking on walkie talkies.

It's a military styled assassination, but what kind assassins are they ? CIA ? Military Industrial Complex ? What?

Those would be the Chupacabra Assassin Squads of Northern Thailand.

2008-06-08 20:32:58 by g5z6b1

Price: $245.00 $190.00

Three voice-inversion scramble settings to minimize eavesdropping; three audible call tones
Two-way radio with 89 selectable UHF frequencies (site license required), 39 analog and 83 digital interference eliminator codes
VOX with three sensitivity levels; tri-color LED with transmit, receive, and low battery indication; 2-pin accessory plug
Up to 2 watt power (1 watt low power setting); 2 channels and two programmable buttons; 12 hours battery life
Designed to IP-55 and MIL-SPEC specifications; channel scan with selectable scan list

how to communicate between two PC via LAN similar to using walkie talkie or two way radio

i am doing commissioning in a industrial site were we mostly use walkie talkie or two way radio from motorolla to communicate with the person in field and the person in control room.

now getting a radio sometimes seems difficult and sometimes communication will not be clear due to building / wall obstruction.

now i have LAN setup between all the sites linked to central control room.

these LANs are not connected to internet. its a industrial LAN used for industrial devices to communicate to Central Control room.

now i want to use these LAN to communicate between field and control room using PC. is it possible to communicate using voice. is there a simple method to communicate without spending much.

These requirements are temporary until we finish off our commissioning which has a period of two months.
for these two months i want to communicate with my colleage in control room.

i usually stay in field and do the commissioning my actions will be reflected in controlroom but i need to know the results for these i used use radio to ask the other person in control room for verification. this verification goes throughout the day. sometime i use mobile phone to ask him. but i spend lots of money on the communication.

Always i also have a notebook pc at site and he also has a server(pc) at control room i just thought if we could communicate each other via LAN than expensive mobile phone.

many thanks

You probably lost a lot of people when you started talking about two way radios.

It sounds like you are looking for a voice chat solution. You would need a microphone and speakers at each location. Finding the right solution at the right price might be difficult. Not many people use it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=network+c hat+software+local+lan

http://www.softlakecity.com/LAN_talk.htm

2009-10-09 11:28:15 by procs