PCTMC models of wireless sensor network protocols
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
PCTMC models of wireless sensor network protocols
EPEW'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Computer Performance Engineering
Mean-field analysis of data flows in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
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The paper provides a study on the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in refineries, petrochemicals, underwater development facilities, and oil and gas platforms. The work focuses on networks that monitor the production process, to either prevent or detect health and safety issues or to enhance production. WSN applications offer great opportunities for production optimization where the use of wired counterparts may prove to be prohibitive. They can be used to remotely monitor pipelines, natural gas leaks, corrosion, H2S, equipment condition, and real-time reservoir status. Data gathered by such devices enables new insights into plant operation and innovative solutions that aids the oil, gas and resources industries in improving platform safety, optimizing operations, preventing problems, tolerating errors, and reducing operating costs. In this paper, we survey a number of WSN applications in oil, gas and resources industry operations.