SMARTRING

Apparatus in the nature of a sensor band for mounting on a pipe and a condition-based monitoring unit for interfacing with the sensor band for slurry management and pipeline integrity using condition-based monitoring technology, namely, monitoring for sand build-up in a pipeline, or monitoring for rock sizes exceeding a certain limit in the pipeline, or monitoring for pipe wall thickness and pipe wear in the pipeline that may be used for providing pipe wear predictions, or monitoring for operational characteristics of valves and pumps in the pipeline