Monitoring and Protection of Oil and Gas Condition in Industrial Using Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are one of the fastest growing and emerging technologies in the field of Wireless networking today. WSNs have a vast amount of applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics and health care. This paper focuses on monitoring and protection of oil and gas operations using WSNs that are optimized to decrease installation, and maintenance cost, energy requirements, increase reliability and improve communication efficiency. In addition, simulation experiments using the proposed model are presented. Such models could provide new tools for research in predictive maintenance and condition-based monitoring of factory machinery in general and for open architecture machining systems in particular. Wireless sensing no longer needs to be relegated to locations where access is difficult or where cabling is not practical. Wireless condition monitoring systems can be cost effectively implemented in extensive applications that were historically handled by running routes with data collectors. The result would be a lower cost program with more frequent data collection, increased safety, and lower spare parts inventories. Facilities would be able to run leaner because they will have more confidence in their ability to avoid downtime. KeywordsWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Routing and Addressing Schemes.