US 12,188,806 B2
Automations device for monitoring field level sensors in oil and gas industry
Jory Schwach, New York, NY (US); Rongkai Xu, Holmdel, NJ (US); Jatan Pathak, Jersey City, NJ (US); and Alexander Ayala, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Andium Inc., New York, NY (US)
Appl. No. 16/617,234
Filed by Andium Inc., New York, NY (US)
PCT Filed May 29, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/034901
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 26, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/222597, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 6, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/512,165, filed on May 29, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0123784 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. G01F 23/22 (2006.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.01)
CPC G01F 23/22 (2013.01) [G01J 5/0037 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/38 (2018.02); G01J 2005/0077 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for monitoring field level sensors at an oil site, comprising:
a plurality of different types of sensor nodes configured to monitor a characteristic associated with the oil site;
a remote terminal unit, wherein the remote terminal unit is located remote from the sensor nodes, the remote terminal unit including:
a processor and memory storing non-transitory computer readable instructions, the instructions executable by the processor to:
receive information from the sensor nodes,
determine that a mobile device is within a defined range from an authentication node located on the oil site,
determine whether the mobile device is authorized based on a signal received from the mobile device,
receiving, with the remote terminal unit, data from a sensor node from the sensor nodes that includes a flow sensor, the data associated with an offloading of oil from an oil storage tank, wherein the data includes an amount of the oil offloaded from the oil storage tank to a truck being driven by a user of the mobile device; and
a hub through which each of the plurality of sensor nodes are connected;
a central computer, wherein the remote terminal unit analyzes the information and sends the information from the sensor nodes to the central computer, in response to the analysis of the information; and
the authentication node, wherein the authentication node is configured to:
release a lock associated with the oil storage tank based on a proximity of the mobile device being less than a defined distance, and
wherein the authentication note is configured to lock the lock associated with the oil storage tank based on the proximity of the mobile device being greater than the defined distance.