Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction to Installation and Integration on an Offshore Oil & Gas Platform

This tutorial gives an introduction to wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and how they can be utilised and integrated in an industrial setting. The basic principles presented will be supplemented with results from extensive laboratory tests and studies of such networks. The authors have for several years been working on evaluating wireless sensor systems, examining specifications and testing WSN technologies in laboratories. Experiences from this work will be presented, in addition to a real-world example from an offshore oil production plant in the North Sea. This includes software interfacing towards the existing monitoring system and network infrastructure.