Remote monitoring system

• US 7,158,919 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2004
• Issued: 01/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC (Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc)
• Original Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC (Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc)
• Inventors: Wright, Gary S, Shoesmith, John P
• Primary Examiner(s): Assouad; Patrick J.
• Application Number:
  US10/857,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20060265193A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 702/188
• 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 remote monitoring system including a sub-system, local to a nuclear power plant and a remote sub-system at an operations base. Process data is collected manually by a hand-held computer and automatically by instrumentation on the power plant. The data collected is stored on a storage device before being transmitted via a communication link to a remote computer. The remote computer runs data analysis and diagnostic simulations on the process data from the power plant to predict future events.

Claims

1. A system for remotely monitoring a nuclear power plant comprising means for sensing process parameters relating to the nuclear power plant and generating a process data signal that is fed to a first storage device that stores said process data, the data stored on said first storage device is automatically transmitted via a communication link to a remote computer including a second storage device that stores the transmitted process data, the remote computer including means for displaying and analyzing the transmitted process data and in which said remote computer includes a diagnostic program wherein said diagnostic program is run in accelerated time using data from said second storage device to predict future behavior of said nuclear power plant.

2. A system as claimed in claim 1 in which the means for sensing the process parameters is instrumentation on the power plant.

3. A system as claimed in claim 1 in which a wireless communication link transmits the data to the second storage device.

4. A system as claimed in claim 1 for the remote monitoring of a nuclear power plant is a vessel.

5. A system as claimed in claim 1 for the remote monitoring of a nuclear power plant in a submarine.

6. A system as claimed in claim 1 for the remote monitoring of a nuclear power plant in a surface ship.