Monitoring gas and oil fields with reliable wireless sensing and Internet of Things

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of things (IoT) are playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. In particular, WSNs and IoT are crucial for observing and monitoring physical phenomena that are critical in environmental, industrial, and scientific applications. Nowadays, a huge number of oil infrastructure including pipelines and refineries need to be continuously monitored by using several parameters such as temperature, pressure, and vibration to prevent accidents and other malfunctioning and to keep track of the overall production system. In this paper, we study WSNs in depth and propose a reliable, secure, and scalable sensing system that focuses on monitoring oil and gas infrastructures.