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Smart Pig ILI vs External Pipeline Inspection

Send a smart-pig magnetic flux leakage robot through the inside of a buried pipeline and compare it against an external-only survey: watch the external readout report 'no defects' the entire run while the in-line inspection robot's sensor ring spikes and maps every hidden internal corrosion pit.

Robotics & Kinematics3DModerate60 FPS⚡ Plasma

A buried oil or gas pipeline hides its most dangerous damage on its inside wall, where the flowing product slowly corrodes and thins the steel. No external method — walking surveys, drones, ground-penetrating radar — can see through the pipe wall to that internal surface, so they report a clean pipe no matter how much internal corrosion is actually present. This simulator runs both an external survey and an in-line inspection "smart pig" over the same buried pipeline segment with five hidden internal corrosion pits: the external readout stays at "no defects detected" for the entire run, while the pig's magnetic flux leakage sensor ring spikes at each pit and its live wall-thickness chart maps every one of them as it travels the pipe's interior.

⚙ Under the hood

A buried pipeline segment hides five internal corrosion pits on its inside wall, invisible to any external survey. Run an external drone/GPR sweep alongside an in-line inspection 'smart pig' that travels through the pipe's interior: the external readout reports 'no defects detected' for the entire run while the pig's magnetic flux leakage sensor ring spikes at each pit and its live wall-thickness chart correctly maps every hidden corrosion location along the pipe.

roboticsoil and gaspipeline inspectionmagnetic flux leakagesmart pigcorrosion detection3D

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install