iLoLeak-Detect: An IoT-Based LoRAWAN-Enabled Oil Leak Detection System for Smart Cities

In recent times the oil and gas industry is following the trend of digital transformation. The digital transformation includes implementing innovative solutions to improve and control the assets of the Oil and Gas companies with more reliable and cost-effective systems. Implementing Internet-of-Things (IoT) based monitoring systems can help in remote monitoring and offer better solutions to reduce potential failures and downtime by achieving a better and faster method to acquire information efficiently. The aim of this paper is to validate and prove that deploying IoT solutions in the midstream sector by building a leak detection monitoring system can minimize the non-productive time and help generate more revenue for the Oil and Gas companies. The novel solution is building a prototype from end to end that operates on a low power communication protocol called LoRaWAN® and conducting experimental procedures on an actual pipe using water. The proposed methodology yielded 90.83% accuracy in real-time leak detection.