THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A LOW-COST FIELD DEPLOYABLE CORROSION MONITORING SENSOR WITH WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

Industrialization is the backbone of any meaningful global development while material selection forms the basis or bedrock for industrial development and improvements (Ashby & Johnson, 2013). In the industries, there are key aspect of industrial processes among which is the transportation of materials (Roemer, 1979). Getting the right selection of materials for transporting a specific and the right kind of materials is one of the challenges that has bedeviled the industrial sector, which the engineers have been looking for ways to proffer solutions to this humongous challenge for several decades (Constable & Somerville, 2003). A lot of research has been done in getting materials that are corrosion resistant that is, having high resistance to
chemical attacks (Mévrel, 1989). Nonetheless, this has not been eradicated as we still have lots of materials that are still highly corrosive. In the oil and gas sector for example, both the crude materials and refined products are mostly transported through pipes over long distance (Koch, 2017).