Enhanced Long-Range Network Performance of an Oil Pipeline Monitoring System Using a Hybrid Deep Extreme Learning Machine Model

Abbas Kubba, Hafedh Trabelsi, Faouzi Derbel

Leak detection in oil and gas pipeline networks is a climacteric and frequent issue in the oil and gas field. Many establishments have long depended on stationary hardware or traditional assessments to monitor and detect abnormalities. Rapid technological progress; innovation in engineering; and advanced technologies providing cost-effective, rapidly executed, and easy to implement solutions lead to building an efficient oil pipeline leak detection and real-time monitoring system. In this area, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly required to enhance the reliability of checkups and improve the accuracy of real-time oil pipeline monitoring systems with limited hardware resources. The real-time transient model (RTTM) is a leak detection method integrated with LoRaWAN technology, which is proposed in this study to implement a wireless oil pipeline network for long distances. This study will focus on enhancing the LoRa network parameters, e.g., node power consumption, average packet loss, and delay, by applying several machine learning techniques in order to optimize the durability of individual nodes’ lifetimes and enhance total system performance. The proposed system is implemented in an OMNeT++ network simulator with several frameworks, such as Flora and Inet, to cover the LoRa network, which is used as the system’s network infrastructure. In order to implement artificial intelligence over the FLoRa network, the LoRa network was integrated with several programming tools and libraries, such as Python script and the TensorFlow libraries. Several machine learning algorithms have been applied, such as the random forest (RF) algorithm and the deep extreme learning machine (DELM) technique, to develop the proposed model and improve the LoRa network’s performance. They improved the LoRa network’s output performance, e.g., its power consumption, packet loss, and packet delay, with different enhancement ratios. Finally, a hybrid deep extreme learning machine model was built and selected as the proposed model due to its ability to improve the LoRa network’s performance, with perfect prediction accuracy, a mean square error of 0.75, and an exceptional enhancement ratio of 39% for LoRa node power consumption.