Patent ID: 8765061

Claim:
A system for monitoring a pipeline, comprising: a movable inline inspection device arranged within the pipeline and having a housing that defines a conduit therein, the conduit providing fluid communication through the movable inline inspection device; one or more optical computing devices arranged on the conduit for monitoring a bypass fluid flowing through the conduit, the one or more optical computing devices comprising: at least one integrated computational element configured to optically interact with the bypass fluid and thereby generate optically interacted light; and at least one detector arranged to receive the optically interacted light and generate an output signal corresponding to a characteristic of the bypass fluid; and a signal processor communicably coupled to the at least one detector of each optical computing device for receiving the output signal of each optical computing device, the signal processor being configured to determine the characteristic of the bypass fluid as detected by each optical computing device and provide a resulting output signal indicative of the characteristic of the bypass fluid.