Early detection and prevention of unauthorized access to critical pipelines.
Oil and gas companies need to protect pipelines from theft, illegal tapping, and leakage. Beyond the direct cost to the pipeline company, the fluid leaking from a compromised pipeline can carry hazardous material that pollutes the surrounding environment.
Pipelines running through remote, unmonitored terrain are exposed to illegal tapping and product theft.
Without continuous monitoring along the full length of the pipeline, leaks can go unnoticed until damage is done.
Leaking hazardous material can pollute soil and water long before a leak is manually discovered.
Pipelines often span great distances, making constant human patrol impractical and expensive.
An array of seismic sensors buried above the pipeline, linked to a central hub, detects digging activity and leakage as it happens, alerting maintenance staff before theft, vandalism, or environmental damage escalates.
Sensors buried above the pipeline detect digging activity, while sensors attached to the pipe itself detect leakage as it happens.
A central hub receives messages and alarms from every sensor, using unique signal processing to differentiate between event types.
Maintenance staff and company headquarters are notified immediately, with the exact location of the threat or leak.
Detects footsteps up to 12m/39ft and vehicle or digging activity up to 25m/82ft from the sensor cable, with per-sensor localization via an embedded DSP processor.
Each sensor draws roughly 15mW (1.3mA at 12V), keeping power infrastructure simple across long, remote pipeline runs.
Sensors are buried alongside the pipeline itself, so there's no above-ground hardware marking the protected route.
IP68 rated to MIL-STD-810G and operational from -40°C to 85°C, built to hold up across the same harsh terrain the pipeline itself crosses.
Sensitivity is tunable per section, so detection can be calibrated to local soil conditions and typical vehicle or foot traffic near the route.
Up to 38 sensors run per string with unlimited, fully redundant Hub-managed sections, so a single fault doesn't take down coverage on the rest of the line.
Pipeline Protection Plus: a buried, DSP-powered seismic sensor cable linked to Hub units over RS485, detecting digging and third-party interference along your pipeline and alerting your team with the exact location of the event.
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