Paper Info
Title
Black Powder Flow Monitoring in Pipelines by Means of Multi-Hop LoRa Networks
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to present a LoRa-based architecture to be used to monitor the formation of Black Powder (BP) in gas pipelines. The proposed network architecture is based on a multi-hop linear topology that allows to deploy a monitoring infrastructure that can be used to cover extremely long pipeline structures thanks to the wide transmission range of the LoRa technology. Together with the network architecture, a novel protocol based on nodes synchronization and very low duty-cycling is proposed, in order to reduce power consumption and then to ensure long life-time to the whole monitoring infrastructure. The network is expected to be used to detect BP flow in gas pipelines: for this application scenario, a measurement system based on electrostatic monitoring is presented. This system is integrated onto a sensor node composed of low power components, in order to reduce power consumption and then increase as much as possible the node life time.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/METROI4.2019.8792890
2019 II Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (MetroInd4.0&IoT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Black Powder,LoRa,Multi-Hop,Pipeline Monitoring,Linear Sensor Network
Sensor node,Pipeline transport,Architecture,Synchronization,System of measurement,Flow (psychology),Network architecture,Real-time computing,Linear topology
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-0430-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrea Abrardo137647.39
Ada Fort246378.26
Elia Landi325.14
Marco Mugnaini411134.91
Enza Panzardi533.24
Alessandro Pozzebon64216.63