Patent ID: 8326538

Claim:
A method for monitoring a wellsite, comprising: transporting a mobile monitoring platform to a wellsite, the mobile monitoring platform comprising: a transportable chassis including two or more wheels; a mast supported by the platform and extendable vertically upward from the chassis; a transceiver including a wireless modem and an antenna; a controller adapted to communicate with the transceiver; and a power module electrically coupled to at least one of the transceiver and the processor; capturing at least one wellsite video image of at least a portion of the wellsite at the mobile monitoring platform with a camera; wirelessly receiving, at the transceiver, well site data from a plurality of sensors at or adjacent the wellsite; wirelessly transmitting, in real-time, the wellsite data to a remote monitoring station using a cellular network; and wirelessly transmitting, in real time, the image, captured with the camera, from the mobile monitoring platform to the remote monitoring station.