PIPELINE MONITORING SYSTEM

• US 20120218072A1
• Filed: 02/28/2011
• Published: 08/30/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kun Shan University
• Original Assignee: Kun Shan University
• Inventors: Wang, Songhao, Garcia, Ronald, Chang, Pei-Hua
• Application Number:
  US13/036,552
• Publication Number:
  US 20120218072A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/3.1
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0283 Predictive maintenance, e.g. involving the monitoring of a system and, based on the monitoring results, taking decisions on the maintenance schedule of the monitored system; Estimating remaining useful life [RUL] preventive maintenance, i.e. planning maintenance according to the available resources without monitoring the system G06Q10/06

Abstract

A pipeline monitoring system includes at least one power generating device and at least one information device. The at least one power generating device generates electric power by movement of the fluid in the pipeline so as to power the at least one information device which then sends a signal and the monitors judges the problem of the pipeline according the signal, such that the maintenance is timely provided.

Claims

1. A pipeline monitoring system, comprising:

at least one power generating device having blades and at least one power generating unit driven by the blades so as to generate electric power, and

at least one information device driven by the electric power from the at least one power generating device and generating a signal.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one information device is a wireless emitter and the signal is a first signal.

3. The system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a receiving member which receives the first signal of the wireless emitter.

4. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the receiving member is connected to a vehicle on the ground or a flying object in the air.

5. The system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the flying object is a remote-control flying object navigated by satellites.

6. The system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the wireless emitter uses RFID (radio frequency identification) or ZIGBEE technology and the first signal includes a code or a coordinate information which provides the receiving member to identify position of the first signal.

7. The system as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a receiving/emitting member to receive the first signal from the wireless emitter and send a second signal to a remote monitoring unit.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wireless emitter uses RFID or ZIGBEE technology and the first signal includes a code or a coordinate information which provides the receiving/emitting member to identify position of the first signal.

9. The system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the power generating unit comprises two induction coil units which respectively provide electric power to the wireless emitter and a processor, the processor generates a data according to number of source of the electric power, and the data is sent to the wireless emitter and combined with the first signal.