Transportation of natural gas,crude oil, petroleum products, water and many other chemicals by pipelines is safest and most economical. When a pipeline fails, the results can be devastating in terms of loss of life, property damage, financial costs and contamination of the environment. Without proper maintenance, every pipeline system will eventually deteriorate. Corrosion can weaken the structural integrity of a pipeline and make an unsafe vehicle for transporting potentially hazardous materials. The weak structure leads to leakages. Once leaks start to occur on a pipe or tank, they continue to occur at an exponentially rising rate.

The conventional measuring intervals are very big. However, once a leak occurs it increases exponentially. Therefore, the real time solution like iCAP system is essential for minimizing corrosion and other losses. The iCAP solution can minimize all the above said limitations. It is a comprehensive field compatible solution.

The iCAP system is an innovative field compatible, modular wireless embedded real time system. The conventional CP becomes intelligent soon after interfacing iCAP. It is an addition to the conventional CP system. Thereby, it automates all the operations and executes in real time. It comprises of ITUs (intelligent telemetric unit), ATRs (Automatic Transformer Rectifier), OPLs (OFF PSP Loggers), permanent reference cells, corrosion probes, base station, vibration sensors, etc. It continuously monitors the pipeline operations and notifies the abnormalities, if any, in real time. It improves the safety, productivity and life of pipeline. It eliminates the requirement of conventional measurements, surveys, tampering/pilferages/third party damages. It has several applications in Oil, Gas, Water, and so on. It is compatible to all conventional type of CP systems irrespective of applications.

Intelligent telemetric Unit is a stand alone module. It acquires data from sensors and transmits to the central monitoring station. It has multimode transmission capabilities. It can transmit the data in GSM, CDMA, RF, Optical and Satellite. Therefore, it would maintain the better data continuity and improves the efficiency. It has several applications. It is one of the modules of iCAP system. In addition, this can be used as RTU of SCADA system for pipeline applications

OFF PSP LOGGER is a standalone module. It helps in conducting cost effective OFF PSP survey. It will facilitate better GPS synchronization. It has several unique features like programmable data acquisition, data transmission to central station through GSM and so on. Thereby, the external IR drop influence would be efficiently estimated.