A smart-integrated IoT module for intelligent transportation in oil industry

Apart from being fundamental in industry 4.0, IoT also extends its capability to smart transportation in an oil pipeline system. The initiation of the Internet of Things has witnessed incredible success in the application of wireless sensor networks and ubiquitous computing for various smart-control applications. In the oil industry, for smooth, accident-less, long-range pipeline transportation, data communication through wireless sensor networks plays a predominant role in IoT. For the prominent integration with the internet, it is essential to fabricate a middleware by overcoming the shortcomings like interoperability and heterogeneity. But yet there is no compact, integrated IoT module with power and energy-efficient configuration to take the modern technology to the next level of innovation of wireless network systems with embedded sensors in the oil industry. Hence, this paper presents a novel, unique-integrated compact, smart IoT module that aims at reducing costs associated with commercial data loggers and sensing modules, requiring control and data storage that need proprietary software. Other usual drawbacks of commercial solutions are limited sensor connections with low expansion flexibility and maintenance restricted to the manufacturer and long cable communication distances. The proposed integrated smart IoT module operation relies on free software, allowing online distribution and communication with a cloud server wirelessly via Wi-Fi through message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) for efficient data communication. A secured high-level engineering web page called Web Monitor was developed for online data analysis with real-time monitoring and control to afford intelligent transportation in oil pipelines. Further, in this work, the real-time validation of the proposed smart IoT module performance in the oil pipeline during abnormal circumstances is also provided. Through this integrated IoT module, the entire oil pipeline network with each substation can be interconnected and controlled beneficial with its intelligence, low cost, and portability.