Intuitive natural gas compressor monitoring system

A system for skid-mounted reciprocating natural gas compressors driven by an engine with an associated engine controller and an engine data gateway, comprising:

• a control panel having a display;
• a plurality of condition sensors configured to sense one or more conditions relating to operation of a skid-mounted reciprocating natural gas compressor;
• a wireless gateway in electronic communication with the control panel, the wireless gateway configured to receive and transmit data, wherein at least some of the data received is related to sensed conditions measured by the plurality of condition sensors;
• a back office server located at a location remote from the system, wherein the wireless gateway is configured to communicate data to the back office server;
• wherein the display on the control panel is configured to display one or more digital gauges, wherein each of the one or more digital gauges comprises a digital needle that displays a reading of a sensed condition measured by one of the plurality of condition sensors, a position of the digital needle relative to an ideal needle position on the each of the one or more digital gauges is determined by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine that receives a data set comprising the sensed conditions measured by the plurality of condition sensors, the ideal needle position corresponds to an optimal value for the sensed condition, each of the one or more digital gauges is color coded, and each of the one or more digital gauges centers a respective scale of the reading of the sensed condition around the optimal value for the sensed condition, wherein:
• a first color represents an optimal range of values of the sensed condition based on an engineering model for the skid-mounted reciprocating natural gas compressor, wherein a center of the optimal range of values represented by the first color represents the optimal value for the sensed condition;
• a second color represents a range of values above an uppermost limit and below a lowermost limit of the optimal range of values;
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• a third color represents a range of values outside the uppermost limit and the lowermost limit represented by the second color;
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• wherein the back office server comprises an associated display configured to display the data received from the wireless gateway, and wherein the associated display includes digital gauges for displaying the sensed conditions in the data received from the wireless gateway.