Orbcomm Global L.P. value-added reseller, Intrex Data Communications Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Dallas, plans to merge with FiberChem Inc. [FOCS] of Las Vegas, Nevada. Financial details were not disclosed, but the combined company will be named DecisionLink Inc.

Intrex has spent five years developing several large-scale, proprietary communication systems that use the Orbcomm satellite network. Data is routed through Orbcomm’s network and Intrex’s universal data network (UDN), which acts as a data gateway and an applications service provider.

Using the Orbcomm system and the Internet, the UDN allows a customer to monitor and control remote or mobile assets such as gas wells, pipelines, compressors, storage tanks, offshore platforms, utilities or service vehicles directly from a desktop PC via the Internet.

DecisionLink will bring together Intrex’s UDN and Fiberchem’s advanced fiber optic chemical sensors with the Orbcomm network to provide customers with critical environmental information used for pipeline leak detection, oil production, water quality monitoring and industrial wastewater compliance monitoring.