Prototype Development Of An Oil Fluid Parameters Monitoring System With Sms Alert

摘要

This paper presents a prototype development of an oil fluid parameters monitoring system with SMS alert. It has been observed that in many oil servicing/plant Maintenance Company, some personnel are employed to measure and monitor fluid parameters such as flow rate, temperature, pressure drop and level (taking periodic readings). The process is found to be very challenging and rigorou s and calls for serious concern. To solve the said problem, developing a system that will reduce stress of manual monitoring of fluid parameters and report the same to the personnel for necessary action is proposed. The proposed system comprises of the hardware and software. The hardware part has four units namely, power supply, input, control and output which was designed using top-down system design approach. The software that controls the entire system is written in C programming language. Thereafter, various units assembled and tested. When the system is functional, the sensors measure various parameters of the fluid and send the signals to microcontroller for processing.Theprocessed data are sent to the display unit and the personnel mobile phone for alert notification. The result gotten is very precise and accurate. Also, simulation was carried out in PROTEUS to analyse the system performance. This system is cost effective and can be deployed in oil servicing company for fluid parameters monitoring .