Oil Well Monitoring and Control Based on Wireless Sensor Networks using Atmega 2560 Controller

Most of the Oil Pumping Units (OPU) are manually monitored. This existing oil-pumping systems use a high power-consuming process, is incapable of OPU’s structural health monitoring. In this paper, a sensor network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient oil well health monitoring. The condition of the oil storage tanks can be monitored using sensors like level sensor, temperature sensor and gas sensor. These sensors are fixed inside the oil storage tanks. The sensor output is given to a microcontroller located in each oil well. Based on the condition of the oil storage tanks, the oil pumping motor is controlled. The monitored information about each oil well is wirelessly transmitted to an administrator located in a remote location. By this method, multiple oil wells within the transmission range of the wireless sensor network used can be monitored and controlled.