Pipeline Telemetry System

Reliable Monitoring and Data Collection for Critical Pipeline Operations

Overview

Our Pipeline Telemetry System (PTS) gathers real-time data from remote or challenging environments, such as offshore installations or inaccessible sites and transmits it to centralised facilities for analysis and utilisation. The PTS empowers pipeline operators with detailed, reliable measurements for effective monitoring and integrity management.

Our adaptable PTS solutions support monitoring across industries, including oil and gas, transportation, telecommunications, water and waste management and power.

Key Features and Benefits

  • Versatile Hardware: Leverages off-the-shelf I/O and computing hardware, ensuring compatibility with diverse systems.
  • Powered by RUPDB Software: At the core of the Pipeline Telemetry System, the RUPDB software enables real-time data collection, processing and secure storage. It accommodates live data needs and multi-year historical data with memory-resident and disk-based databases.
  • Flexible Data Communication: Offers multiple industry-standard and custom protocols, including Modbus (ASCII/RTU/TCP), SNMP and FTP, enabling seamless data flow and integration across networks.
  • Enhanced User Interface: Provides an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for diagnostics and data visualisation, accessible through a web-based platform for remote monitoring.
  • Customisable Alerts and Security: This service delivers configurable email alerting, data encryption and a range of protocols to meet security and notification requirements.

Pipeline Integrity System (PLIS)

The Pipeline Integrity System (PLIS) is an add-on feature to the PTS that delivers advanced monitoring and leak detection capabilities. The PLIS continuously analyses flow discrepancies, enabling real-time pipeline integrity monitoring and leak detection using RUPDB‘s short-term and long-term flow balance algorithms. This added layer of oversight enhances safety and operational reliability.

Flow Discrepancy Calculations:
Continuously calculates short-term and long-term flow discrepancies to detect potential leakages and irregularities.

Mass Balance Algorithm:
Performs ongoing monitoring, with periodic data output, to compare standard pipeline flow with actual readings.

System Reliability

  • Automatic Restart: It automatically restarts after power failures, returning to the application software without the need for manual intervention.
  • Shutdown Signalling: The PTS can be used in Shutdown Signalling systems where critical signals are propagated between pipeline stations to safely initiate a controlled plant shutdown with or without Operator intervention.
  • High Reliability: RUPDB is suitable for High-Reliability, Dual Redundant Applications and with support for Redundant Multi-Path Data Links deployments

Applications

  • Pipeline Telemetry: Enables remote data collection from pipelines in challenging environments.
  • Pipeline Integrity Monitoring: Provides leak detection and flow monitoring for safe and efficient operations.
  • Data Server: Acts as a central data repository, supporting historical data retention and easy retrieval.

User Interface

The PTS system features an intuitive interface for efficient diagnostics and data visualisation. Users can operate most functions, including display navigation, with a standard mouse, making it easy to use without extensive technical training.

Technical Specifications

  • Hardware: Multiple form factors including DIN Rail Servers, 1U to 4U rackmount industrial computers, Data Centre style servers and virtual environments.
  • Supported Operating Systems: Supports MS Windows and GNU/Linux, with virtualisation options like Proxmox and VMware for efficient resource use.
  • I/O Support:
    • DIN Rail mounted analogue, digital and serial I/O multiplexers
    • Rackmounted I/O Servers
    • Remote network enabled I/O Devices
  • Protocols and Interfaces:
    • Standard Protocols: Modbus (ASCII/RTU/TCP), OPC, FTP, SMTP, SNMP and Serial ASCII.
    • RUPDB Protocols: Stream framing (RS232/RS422/RS485 and TCP) and packet framing facilitate secure, reliable telemetry data transfer.

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Contact us today to learn how our Pipeline Telemetry System can elevate your operations with secure, reliable and real-time data insights.