With rapid socio-economic growth and increased energy demand, exploration and exploitation of oil and gas resources have become crucial. Long-term exploitation leads to problems such as pressure drop and production reduction in oil fields, and water injection technology has become a common method to improve these problems. The traditional direct water injection for oil extraction has problems such as high injection cost and low oil recovery efficiency. Therefore, an intelligent control system for different oilfield reservoirs is needed. This study focuses on the layered water injection intelligent system based on advanced sensor technology, digital signal processing and intelligent algorithms. The article reviews the advantages of layered water injection system and the current research status, designs an intelligent control structure including hardware circuits and modular software processes, and adopts adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm as the core of intelligent control.