A Design of Wireless Sensor System for Water Quality Monitoring of Oil Field

Abstract

In these years, petroleum and natural gas exploitation cause underground water pollution worldwide. And the leak of the crude oil and injection of waste water in the fracking process are two main reasons of water pollution during the exploitation. So monitoring the water quality in petroleum and natural gas exploitation area is more and more important to assure the drinking water’s safety for people who live nearby. In this paper, a wireless sensor system for water quality monitoring based on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is designed. This system uses XBee modules as the communication units and chooses proper sensors to monitor the key parameters for water quality including PH, turbidity, conductivity and temperature. And we also use LABVIEW to build an interface to monitor, restore and analyze the data collected.