Continuous Sensor Data Streaming for Drilling Rig Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional drilling rig systems face challenges in processing multiple data streams with varying dataflow rates, leading to disjointed control and monitoring during drilling operations.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that converts heterogeneous data streams from multiple sensors into a continuous, homogeneous data stream at a constant rate using a virtual water wheel mechanism, incorporating a queue and processor to manage and synchronize data flow, ensuring uninterrupted operation by introducing new data packets when necessary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple data streams with different dataflow rates are processed directly, then real-time control and monitoring are disrupted, but converting to a continuous data stream requires synchronization mechanisms that increase system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a queue as an intermediary component between multiple data streams with different flow rates and the processing system. The queue buffers data packets from various sources, allowing them to be collected and released at a uniform rate, thereby decoupling the heterogeneous input streams from the processing requirements and ensuring continuous real-time control and monitoring without direct complex synchronization between all streams.
2Productivity
If data streams are synchronized to maintain continuous flow, then operational efficiency improves, but latency increases due to buffering and processing overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary buffering of data packets in the queue before they are processed. By pre-collecting data from multiple sources in the queue, the system prepares the data in advance for uniform processing, which smooths out variations in data arrival rates and reduces the need for complex real-time synchronization operations that would introduce additional latency.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a queue is used to buffer data streams, then data flow continuity is maintained, but memory requirements and system resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The queue implements a fixed-size buffer that operates with partial filling rather than attempting to store all possible incoming data. The buffer is designed to hold sufficient data to smooth out normal variations in data flow rates, but does not allocate excessive memory capacity. This approach maintains data stream continuity for typical operating conditions while limiting memory consumption to reasonable levels.
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AI summary
A system and method to conform data flow are provided. The system includes a queue configured to receive at least one data stream, and a processor configured to convert the at least one data stream to a continuous data stream, and output the continuous data stream at a constant rate.