Decades have gone by since oil and gas became the most significant resources on earth. The risks and inevitable consequences are fairly obvious. Air pollution, global warming, marine pollution, soil contamination and so on are the main issues that human beings are tangling with in the 21st century. The methods taken towards oil and gas extraction, as well as the way of using said resources, have been the major causes of related environmental damages. However, the transportation of such hazardous liquid has also proven itself to be equally harmful. Besides the rare oil tanker accidents, pipelines spreading across all continents and oceans will always be a serious threat that can’t be neglected.
Pipeline leakage can result in environmental harm, property damage, injuries or even fatalities. The greatest risk of all has to be the possibilities of fires and explosions that may cause hundreds of deaths and millions in damage. The transport of oil and gas through pipelines is monitored with process instrumentation for safety reasons. Under the premise of keeping these pipelines operational as they are still a necessity to our civilization, the service provider introduces industrial IoT as a smarter way to detect the status of the facilities, and to form a robust pipeline infrastructure as it is extremely crucial to ensure reliable delivery of crude oil and raw gas between upstream, midstream, and downstream segments.
To protect pipeline infrastructure against vandals, the pump stations along the pipeline are equipped with multiple cameras to provide real-time monitoring for greater safety to the facilities. These cameras are high-resolution PTZ cameras, which have abovestandard requirements of 60 watts power inputs. Leonton offers a wide variety of industrial IEEE802.3bt PoE networking products that meet the high-power PoE requirement. In this case, the service provider deploys Leonton’s BG5-1204-SFP-T and MBG2-0201-SFP-24-T to provide up to 90 watts high power output per PoE port for the cameras in each station.
These switches and media converters also support fiber optics communications to allow long-distance connectivity, as the field site stations along the pipelines are located several miles apart from each other. To ensure high network resiliency, EG5-2012-SFP-T and BG5-1204-SFP-T are utilized in the fiber network backbone to form ERPS ring redundancy. With the high-end cameras powered by bt PoE and acoustic sensors watching over the pipelines, the operators are able to react instantly, resulting in saving time and potentially lives.
Leonton exceeds the customer’s expectations with its suitable, reliable, and high-quality products that check all the boxes. Other determining factors are competitive prices and reasonable lead time. However, Leonton does not stop there. Leonton walks the customer through installations and system configurations as solid after-sales services have been the company’s core value ever since it was founded. Human beings won’t stop improving the way of managing pipelines as properties and lives are at stake. Real-time monitoring with high-end cameras covering hundreds of miles allows instant reactions towards incidents, and Leonton is glad to be a major part of the operations.
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