Software Development of Integrated Wireless Sensor Networks For Real Time Monitoring of Oil and Gas Flow Rate Metering Infrastructure

Abstract

This research work describes the software development of an integrated wireless sensor network (WSN) for realtime remote monitoring of oil and gas flow rate metering infrastructure. The wireless sensor network includes flow sensors, pumping machines, microcontrollers, Wi-Fi or wireless links and a database server. The pumping machine first pumps oil and gas, then a flow rate sensor measures the quantity and communicates the flow rate data in meter cube per second via a wireless link to the database server for further processing. The resulting data is stored on the database server while the continuous flow rate is displayed in real time on the website designed as the humancomputer interaction (HCI) interface through which, the quantity of the oil and gas lifted can easily be accessed without having to collect the data from several stations manually. The cost-effective indices for reporting the quantity of oil and gas lifting are of significance to any accountable and transparent system. However, manual processes have not been able to do that in real time. In this paper, our main focus is to provide the software development life cycle involved in the design and implementation processes of the system prototype using iterative incremental mode and the complete software development architecture for the wireless sensor network.