P2S Technologies
Oil & Energy - Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
P2S Technologies Employees
P2S Technologies Details
Monitoring corrosion for water, oil and gas pipelines is currently inefficient. Corrosion surveying is time consuming, costly, and most important, prone to human error. Each pipeline has thousands of test stations, and currently they are read by technicians who walk or drive along the pipeline and stop at each one to take laborious and time consuming measurements. This means that a technician is required to stop at each test point and unscrew the cap, physically connect a meter or data logger, take readings, disconnect the meter, and replace the cap. Some test stations are very inaccessible, located in remote and difficult landscapes, which furthermore contributes to the burden of collecting accurate test data. Finally, there is no modern off-the-shelf software solution to help companies manage and process the cathodic protection data that has been collected for their pipelines, which makes it hard to obtain an accurate and real-time view of the overall state of each pipeline.The Lync Meter is a wireless data acquisition device allowing cathodic protection readings to be collected without physical contact between the technician and test point. By retrofitting IOT devices into existing test stations, this device broadcasts cathodic protection values to nearby survey devices, including drones, Android tablets or phones. Once the Lync Meter is permanently installed at the test point, a technician will merely need to pass within range of the test point, without stopping, and the readings are automatically logged. If this is done by driving by or flying over, a single person can read these test stations in a fraction of the time. Remote data collection also reduces driving time for surveyors, and therefore reduces carbon footprint.By automating the measurement process, we both eliminate complex interactions between the surveyor and the test stations along the pipeline, and provide an accurate, real-time view of the overall state of each pipeline.
