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. | ISSN:2249-5789 R Barani et al , International Journal of Computer Science & Communication Networks,Vol 3(6),341-346 Oil Well Monitoring and Control Based on Wireless Sensor Networks using Atmega 2560 Controller 1, lakshmi 2 1 PG Part Time Student, ECE Department, Anna University, Chennai 2 Assistant Professor, ECE Department, Kamaraj College Of Engineering and Technology, Virudhunagar, Tamilnadu, India 1 baranimahesh12@, 2 manijeya_1976@ Abstract 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. 1. Introduction Sensor networks have drawn much attention for their broad practical applications-investigate specific sensors and sensor networks for air-craft structural health and performance monitoring. A real-time radiological area monitoring sensor network is developed in for emergency response. In this paper, a sensor network based intelligent system is proposed for remote oil well health monitoring and automatic oil-pumping control. The motivation of developing this system is that 1) due to the special nature of oil exploration and oil drilling, the majority of oil pumping units .
