Patrol management system applying RFID to petrochemical industry

Abstract

A lot of manufacturers tend to enhance the management efficacy and reduce the management costs by investing large resources in the research and development of RFID. For petrochemical industry, an effective, reliable, and secure patrol management system is primary. Nevertheless, traditional patrol management focuses on labor patrol that the field staff master in the corrosion, leakage, and pipe aging of production equipment. Although equipment inspection and patrol items are scheduled every day, some problems still need to be overcome. After completing traditional patrol tasks, extra time and manpower are required for organizing the patrol records and filling them into electronic document. In the process, it is likely to key in wrong data because of the numerous patrol items. Apparently, without systematic management, supervisors and shift leaders can hardly find out data errors and analyze the abundant data for complete risk evaluation and process security improvement. An RFID-based patrol management system suitable for petrochemical industry is proposed in this study. The system corresponds to the field environment requirements and regulations for petrochemical plants, integrates operation procedure and information procedure, and evaluates and includes various dimensions and variables through interviews and technological analyses to enhance the process security. Active processing equipment monitoring could enhance the preventive maintenance efficiency and promote the production capacity and industrial competitiveness.

A Self-Adaptive Data Balance Protocol For Distributed Radio Frequency Identification Sensor Network

“…Mostly, this type of RFID-sensing network is applied with many local subsystems embedded with tiny transponders and supports time-based one-way communication. The terminal nodes involve the sensor, RFID readers and actuators, connected with each other depending on the function of RFID network [8]- [10] corresponding to the monitoring tasks. This type of applications is increasingly growing in many smart systems owing to the requirements on monitoring system with ID integration.…”

“…Nk j G j s (10) where G(*) is the operator of address calculation for transponder to obtain the address for next data routine. It serves as path switching behavior in system.…”