Vehicle Management In A Chilean Oilfield

Background
Vehicle management is important for oilfield. If handled properly, it can play a positive role in promoting the safety and productivity in oil production. A Chilean oilfield, however, faces many challenges caused by messed vehicle management. Old manual way to keep all the oilfield vehicles in order can obviously not meet today's requirements for a high efficient and more secure oil production.
 
Challenges

• As there are plenty of vehicles coming in and out of the oilfield, it's extremely inefficient and time-consuming to record each with a pen and paper manually.

• Different types of vehicles -cars, trucks, tankers- run in the oilfield every day. The current method is not flexible enough to manage all types of vehicles.

• Due to oilfield's special operating environment (high temperature and high pressure), there are potential risks in the management of vehicles with different uses.

• Administrators have no convenient and real- time access to records like the time when the vehicle enters or leaves the oilfield. Manual recordings provide them with no timely decision-making basis.

 
Solutions
Catering to the needs of this oilfield enterprise, Chainway configured 2D barcode scanning and ultra-high frequency RFID reading and writing functions to the portable C5000 mobile computers. This solution is aimed to realize automatic vehicle registration and management. Each vehicle is equipped with a 2D barcode or RFID tag with unique identity information. Then doorkeepers only need to scan the barcode or RFID tag to obtain all information about this vehicle and then input the data required. Via wireless networks, these newly collected data and information can be transmitted to a software system in real time, which makes the overall vehicle management more flexible and intelligent.
 
Effects

• Using handheld terminals to automatically collect vehicle information contributed to a substantial increase in the passing speed of the vehicle.

• Gatekeepers didn't need to note down vehicle plate number, vehicle type or business unit it belongs to by hand, which eased their workload and eliminated manual errors.

• All captured information transmitted to the database ensured rapid access to the data needed for critical decisions.

•  It effectively improved the level of vehicle management, ensured safe and high-quality oil production. 

 
PDA Configuration
P/N: C5000U
Functions: 2D, UHF RFID