Remote Data Transmission Without Internet

[Ramona]

Hi
I need to transmit data from, and send commands to a remote research probe to a PC terminal for data analysis, but without the internet as the probe will (ideally) be in the middle of a lake in the middle of nowhere.  LabVIEW seems to be an excellent solution in software, but is there such hardware that can help me accomplish this like the CAN series?  Or do I need the terminal to be close by? 
Thank you for your help.

[minh.tran@ni.com]

Good afternoon Ramona,

Thanks for contacting National Instruments with your issue, we'll try our best to resolve it for you as quickly and efficiently as possible.

If you wish to transmit data wirelessly, National Instruments provides a 2.7 GHz RF Vector Signal Generator:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.pxi-5671.html

It will allow you to generate data in a variety of modulation schemes which can then be received and analyzed via our 2.7 GHz RF Vector Signal Analyzer:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/support/model.pxi-5661.html

If it's possible to use wire, we have our MXI-4 solution:

https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/category/pxi-controllers.html?productId=118776 

This will allow you to transmit data at up to 78 MB/s along fibre optic cables up to 200 m. 

Best of luck with your project.

Sincerely,

Minh Tran

Applications Engineering

National Instruments

[Ramona]

hmm,  thank you for your suggestions but I think those are a little out of my price range for something that is very likely to be lost or ruined in a little probe floating in a lake/ocean.  I was looking for something much smaller and less sophisticated to send relatively small (or at least compressed) data packets to a terminal.