/Modular Sensor Fusion Platform For Hydrocarbon Storage Equipment Monitoring
Abstract

Various embodiments of the present technology relate to solutions for hydrocarbon equipment monitoring. In some examples, a detection system comprises a compute engine, a gimbal, a sensor suite, and an imaging system. The compute engine generates signaling that directs the gimbal to orient the imaging system, signaling that directs the imaging system to image the equipment, and signaling that directs the sensor suite to sense the equipment. The gimbal orients the imaging system based on the signaling. The imaging system images the equipment and transfers images depicting the storage equipment to the compute engine. The sensor suite senses the equipment and transfers sensor data that characterizes the equipment to the compute engine. The compute engine processes the data with a machine learning engine trained to determine the status of the equipment. The compute engine transfers a machine learning output that indicates the status to a downstream system.

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Various embodiments of the present technology relate to solutions for hydrocarbon equipment monitoring. In some examples, a detection system comprises a compute engine, a gimbal, a sensor suite, and an imaging system. The compute engine generates signaling that directs the gimbal to orient the imaging system, signaling that directs the imaging system to image the equipment, and signaling that directs the sensor suite to sense the equipment. The gimbal orients the imaging system based on the signaling. The imaging system images the equipment and transfers images depicting the storage equipment to the compute engine. The sensor suite senses the equipment and transfers sensor data that characterizes the equipment to the compute engine. The compute engine processes the data with a machine learning engine trained to determine the status of the equipment. The compute engine transfers a machine learning output that indicates the status to a downstream system.
Timeline
Filed
06/02/2026
Published
09/24/2026
Granted
Not Available
IPC Codes(6)
G01M 3/16:using electric detection means (, take precedence G01M 3/06, G01M 3/12, G01M 3/20, G01M 3/24, G01M 3/26)
G01F 23/00:Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm
G06V 10/80:Fusion, i.e. combining data from various sources at the sensor level, preprocessing level, feature extraction level or classification level (multimodal speaker identification or verification G10L 17/10)