Low-latency wireless communication device and protocol for CO2 bot sensing communication
AssigneeSaudi Arabian Oil Company
InventorsKlemens Katterbauer, Abdullah Awadh Al-Shehri, Ali Abdallah Al-Yousef
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Abstract
A low-latency wireless communication system, devices, and processes for carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring for a subsurface reservoir. The system includes various wireless CO2 sensing bots that measure CO2 within the reservoir. The CO2 data is wirelessly transferred between the individual CO2 sensing bots and a base station that communicate with the other CO2 sensing bots as peers within a low latency architecture.
Claims14
A system for monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) in a subsurface reservoir, comprising:
- a plurality of CO2 sensing devices, each CO2 sensing device comprising a CO2 sensor, a radio unit, and a microprocessor, wherein each of the plurality of CO2 sensing devices is operable to communicate as a peer over a radio area network;
- a base station comprising a low latency unit, a plane function entity, and a radio unit, the base station operable to communicate as a peer over the radio area network, wherein the low latency unit is operable to receive data from at least one of the plurality of CO2 sensing devices and the plane function entity is operable to receive data from the low latency unit, wherein each of the plurality of CO2 sensing devices is operable to transmit a CO2 measurement to the base station over the radio area network;
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- a local server configured to process the CO2 measurement, wherein the plane function entity is operable to transmit the CO2 measurement to the local server after receipt from the low latency unit, wherein the local server is configured to determine a CO2 flux measurement using the CO2 measurement.
A method for monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) in a subsurface reservoir, comprising:
- receiving, at a low latency unit of a base station and over a radio area network, a CO2 measurement from a CO2 sensing device disposed in the subsurface reservoir, the CO2 sensing device comprising a CO2 sensor, a radio unit, and a microprocessor, and the base station comprising a low latency unit, a plane function entity, and a radio unit, the base station operable to communicate as a peer over the radio area network,
- providing the CO2 measurement from the low latency unit to a plane function entity of the base station;
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- transmitting the CO2 measurement from the plane function entity of the base station to a server, wherein the server comprises a local server configured to determine a CO2 flux measurement using the CO2 measurement.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable code stored thereon for monitoring carbon dioxide (CO2) in a subsurface reservoir, the executable code comprising a set of instructions that causes a processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a low latency unit of a base station and over a radio area network, a CO2 measurement from a CO2 sensing device disposed in the subsurface reservoir, the CO2 sensing device comprising a CO2 sensor, a radio unit, and a microprocessor, and the base station comprising a low latency unit, a plane function entity, and a radio unit, the base station operable to communicate as a peer over the radio area network;
- providing the CO2 measurement from the low latency unit to a plane function entity of the base station;
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- transmitting the CO2 measurement from the plane function entity of the base station to a server, wherein the server comprises a local server configured to determine a CO2 flux measurement using the CO2 measurement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.