A TELEMETRY SYSTEM COMBINED WITH A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR REMOTE PROCESSES MONITORING

ABSTRACT: Nowadays, different kinds of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used in heavy industries like oil and gas industry to monitor and control production and operation processes. In a same industrial plant, major engineering and design efforts are made during each system implementation, to comply with process requirements and features. Moreover, other efforts are made regarding to operation and maintenance issues due to diverse hardware and software architectures of such systems. This paper aim is to make a comparative study between most used control systems by highlighting their strengths and features, each according to its preferred domain of process control. Then to discuss how to develop a unified system that will have core features to monitor and control different kinds of processes. This approach is applied for the design of an oilfield telemetry project. The purpose is to propose technically optimized and cost-effective hardware and software solution.