System for Measuring and Reporting a Condition of Equipment

• US 20150022326A1
• Filed: 07/19/2013
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Compression Systems, LLC (Baker Hughes Company)
• Original Assignee: Cameron International Corporation (SLB)
• Inventors: Baxter, Daniel B., Bartos, John C., Johnson, Everette, Roper, Edward E., Dowling, Jack
• Application Number:
  US13/946,676
• Publication Number:
  US 20150022326A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.6
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 41/00 Equipment or details not covered by groups E21B15/00 - E21B40/00
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0264 Control of logging system, e.g. decision on which data to store; time-stamping measurements
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/08 Registering or indicating the production of the machine either with or without registering working or idle time
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A system for measuring and reporting conditions of equipment comprises a sensor to measure a condition of the equipment. The sensor communicates with a processor in communication that receives the signal from the sensor and converts the signal to data. A data storage device in communication with the processor stores the measurement data. Also included is a wireless communication interface in communication with the processor for wireless communicating the measurement data.

Claims

1. A system for measuring and reporting a condition of equipment, comprising:

a sensor to measure a condition of the equipment;

a processor in communication with the sensor capable of receiving a signal from the sensor and converting the signal to data;

a data storage device in communication with the processor and capable of storing the data;

a wireless communication interface in communication with the processor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication interface includes a frequency identification (RFID) tag that also includes the data storage device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the RFID tag can communicate measurement data from the processor.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a power source.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a visual indicator to display a condition of the equipment.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the visual indicator can visually indicate whether the data has crossed a threshold value.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the condition of the equipment is one of strain, temperature, valve position, cycle count, vibration and impact.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor and memory storage device are part of a microcontroller capable of performing one of signal conditioning and filtering of incoming measurements.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed with a threshold value for the measurement data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the wireless interface is capable of updating the system with a new threshold parameter.

11. A method for reporting the condition of equipment, that comprises:

acquiring measurements of a condition of the equipment;

converting the measurements into data;

storing the measurement data in a data storage device; and

wirelessly communicating the measurement data.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising visually displaying the condition of the equipment.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising determining if the measurement data are beyond a threshold value.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising visually indicating that the condition of the equipment has gone beyond the threshold value.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein processing the measurements includes signal conditioning and signal filtering.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

a processor to convert the measurements into data that operates using software or firmware; and

updating the software or firmware of the processor.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein wirelessly communicating measurement data comprises communicating using radio frequency waves.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the condition of the equipment includes at least one of strain, temperature, valve position, cycle count, vibration and impact.

19. The method of claim 11, further comprising wirelessly communicating the measurement data to at least one of a computer and a radio frequency identification reader (RFID) reader.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising visually displaying information relating to the measured condition on the computer or RFID reader.