US Patent 11927944 Method and system for connected advanced flare analytics

A method and system for advanced flare analytics in a flare operation monitoring and control system is disclosed that contains a data acquisition and augmentation mechanism whereby data is aquired through a plant network including images of the flare operations from single or multi-camera hubs. A machine learning-based self-adaptive industrial automation system process the images and data and assigns pixels to the images according to categories selected from smoke, flame and steam. The results of the analysis are displayed and a notice is issued when the percentage of pixles in a specific category falls outside a predeterminmed range.