De-Facto Standard for DTS Visualisation
A powerful and reliable tool is the result of our continual development of the commissioning and visualisation software used for LIOS Technology’s optical temperature measurement system (OTS). The structures of the software CHARON_02, designed for modern Windows platforms, are efficient and highly loadable ensuring pleasant working:
- Ethernet access: several controller signals can be reliably summarised and processed on one PC system
- Well thought-out database design: capable and efficient
- Boundless visualisation capabilities: customised for efficient well logging
- Embedded storage and visualisation of external point- type data, like P/T gauges
CHARON_02 provides a database built storage of all measurement and configuration data which enables the following new features:
- Synchronised measurement browsing
- Simplified import and export of configuration sets
- Embedded configuration within all measurement data files
- Ring buffer storage functionality which allows permanent data storage or event (alarm) triggered storage of measurement data
- Clearly arranged measurement data explorer: Easy tracing of requested measurement data by time period, event, OTS number or title/description
- Detailed reports in order to file configurations of commissioned projects
- Automated DVD or remote network data export services in order to manage properly huge measurement data amounts
Various options in data representation
- Display temperature as a function of fibre position.
- Select a profile from a user defined point in time and display this profile (fixed) as reference for comparison with all other profile data of the displayed measurement data.
- Temperature (raw or calc) against true vertical depth (TVD) and horizontal displacement (HZD) incorporating the well trajectory.
- Display temperature against imported geothermal gradient which will be displayed in the TVD view as well.
- Important points along the well bore will be added through the user interface in CHARON_02 at specific depths and displayed at all temperature windows using selected symbols and short user texts.
Due to the high local resolution sampling of temperature, long sensor lengths and short measuring cycles, efficient preparation and compression of the volume of measuring data is of great importance. The CHARON_02 configuration and visualisation software associated with the OTS systems was developed for just this purpose. It can be adapted to specific requirements and offers numerous options for displaying and processing the recorded measuring data. This software makes it possible to create zone views which, as the application-related visualisation of the temperature profiles, allows a freely configurable division of the sensor stretches into zones and the configuration of zone-related alarm generation with event handling.
Enhanced visualisation (2D schematic)
CHARON_02 enhanced visualisation offers multiple OTS visualisation in one view as well as multiple views for one OTS. A customised schematic drawing with individually shaped zone outlines can easily be added.
- Embedding of customized schematic drawings
- Individually shaped zones easily adaptable
- Multiple OTS visualisation in one view possible
- Multiple views of one OTS also possible
- Visualisation of complex monitored objects by integrating different zones into one
- Completely customizable colour and pattern schemes
CHARON_02 allows to display and process distributed temperature data with many options. Individually traces can be displayed in meter or feet respectively deg Celsius or Fahrenheit scale. In order to support international customer needs various language tables are available in CHARON_02, which can be selected and swapped during normal program operation. The current list comprises besides English, German, Italian or French also Chinese and Korean characters for example. Further languages can be added by help of CHARON’s own language tool. |
