US 12,266,095 B2
Monitoring of pipeline systems
Riccardo Barbone, Schaffhausen (CH)
Assigned to Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/527,618.
Claims priority of application No. 20208251 (EP), filed on Nov. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0156907 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); F17D 3/00 (2006.01); F17D 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/001 (2013.01) [F17D 3/00 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01); G06K 7/1443 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30108 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30204 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for detecting displacements in installed pipeline systems (1) and for identifying components (2) and their properties, comprising:
arranging/attaching a marker (3) on different components (2) or on one component (2) and one structural element (13), of the installed pipeline system (1),
recording/scanning/photographing the markers (3) and generating a baseline image (4) of their initial state,
assigning properties and data to and depositing them on the markers (3),
storing the baseline image (4) at a memory location (5),
re-recording/re-scanning/re-photographing the markers (3),
independently detecting the markers (3) and comparing it with the store baseline image (4) of the corresponding markers (3),
determining alterations or displacements of the marker (3),
outputting (11) determined values (ΔX, ΔY, ΔZ, θ);
wherein at least two markers are arranged such that they are recorded together on a baseline image (4); and
wherein a recommendation (11) for reducing a displacement of the pipeline system (1) at the corresponding point is made based on the determined values (ΔX, ΔY, ΔZ).