DXBC: a long distance wireless broadband communication system for coastal maritime surveillance applications

George E. Vastianos; Nick D. Argyreas; Chris K. Xilouris; Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos

doi:10.1117/12.2182197

23 May 2015 DXBC: a long distance wireless broadband communication system for coastal maritime surveillance applications

George E. Vastianos, Nick D. Argyreas, Chris K. Xilouris, Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos

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Proceedings Volume 9456, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security, Defense, and Law Enforcement XIV; 94560X (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182197
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

The field of Homeland Security focuses on the air, land, and sea borders surveillance in order to prevent illegal activities while facilitating lawful travel and trade. The achievement of this goal requires collaboration of complex decentralized systems and services, and transfer of huge amount of information between the remote surveillance areas and the command & control centers. It becomes obvious that the effectiveness of the provided security depends highly on the available communication capabilities between the interconnected areas. Although nowadays the broadband communication between remote places is presumed easy because of the extensive infrastructure inside residential areas, it becomes a real challenge when the required information should be acquired from locations where no infrastructure is available such as mountain or sea areas. The Integrated Systems Lab of NCSR Demokritos within the PERSEUS FP7- SEC-2011-261748 project has developed a wireless broadband telecommunication system that combines different communication channels from subGHz to microwave frequencies and provides secure IP connectivity between sea surveillance vessels and the Command and Control Centers (C3). The system was deployed in Fast Patrol Boats of the Hellenic Coast Guard that are used for maritime surveillance in sea boarders and tested successfully in two demonstration exercises for irregular migration and smuggling scenarios in the Aegean Archipelagos. This paper describes in detail the system architecture in terms of hardware and software and the evaluation measurements of the system communication capabilities.

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George E. Vastianos, Nick D. Argyreas, Chris K. Xilouris, and Stelios C. A. Thomopoulos "DXBC: a long distance wireless broadband communication system for coastal maritime surveillance applications", Proc. SPIE 9456, Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security, Defense, and Law Enforcement XIV, 94560X (23 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2182197

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