Systems and methods for monitoring remote installations
AssigneeRebellion Photonics, Inc.
InventorsRobert Timothy KESTER, Margarita Sergeyevna ODINTSOVA
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Abstract
A system for monitoring a petrochemical installation is disclosed. The system can include an optical imaging system comprising an array of optical detectors. The system can comprise processing electronics configured to process image data detected by the optical imaging system. The processing electronics can be configured to detect a target species based at least in part on the processed image data. The processing electronics can further be configured to, based on a detected amount of the target species, transmit an alarm notification to an external computing device over a communications network indicating that the target species has been detected at the petrochemical installation.
Claims16
A method for monitoring one or more installations, the method comprising:
- capturing image data using a plurality of optical imaging systems, each optical imaging system of the plurality of optical imaging systems comprising an array of optical detectors;
- detecting one or more target species at the one or more installations based at least in part on the image data;
- monitoring a progression of a liquid leak over a period of time;
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- generating a summary alarm image that presents a detected target species over a monitoring time period based at least in part on weighing concentrations of the detected target species from a plurality of frames captured by a field of view (FOV) during the monitoring time period.
A method for monitoring an installation, the method comprising:
- capturing image data using an optical imaging system comprising an array of optical detectors;
- detecting a target species based at least in part on the image data;
- transmitting, based on a detected amount of the target species, an alarm notification to an external computing device over a communications network indicating that the target species has been detected at the installation;
- detecting the target species over multiple frames of the image data;
- combining the multiple frames of the image data into a summary alarm image that presents the detection of the target species over a period of time;
- receiving radiation incident on the optical imaging system through a plurality of optical channels that are spatially and spectrally different from one another, each optical channel positioned to transfer the radiation towards the array of optical detectors;
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- generating a progressive mode to sequentially present summary alarm images for successive stored fields of view (FOVs).
A method for monitoring a plurality of installations, the method comprising:
- receiving infrared image data from a plurality of optical imaging systems located at the plurality of installations, each optical imaging system configured to capture infrared image data at its respective installation;
- detecting a plurality of events occurring at the plurality of installations based at least in part on the infrared image data;
- forming an associated event group based at least in part on one or more types of one or more target species associated with the plurality of events;
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- transmitting an alarm notification to an external computing device over a communications network indicating the associated event group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.