A Smart System For Monitoring Oil Pipeline Installations Using Fiber Optic Sensors
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2015
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Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomosho.
Abstract
Oil Pipeline installations are national infrastructures of high economic value. This makes monitoring and
protection of such installations against the threat of economic saboteurs a national issue for any government. In
this paper, a system for smart monitoring of oil pipeline using optical fiber cable is presented as a solution to the inadequacy of the traditional human and/or animal physical monitoring. The designed system employs fiber optic as sensor laid along the oil pipeline installation and a software that analyses the optical signal generated to determine the occurrence of threat to the installations. The smart system takes advantage of the effect of
environmental phenomenon on optical signal traversing the optical fiber sensor in the automated monitoring of
oil pipeline installations. On the basis of the mathematical relationship between light intensity and applied
pressure, the system is able to determine (against a pre-set threshold), an attempt or the actual vandalization of oil pipeline installation.
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Fiber optic sensor, Oil pipeline installation, environmental monitoring