Abstract:Oil well monitoring system can realize the acquisition, transmission, display and management of oil well data. Firstly,the overall structure of oil well monitoring system is proposed in the paper. Then, the hardware design and software development of the transport layer device—RTU(Remote Terminal Unit) are introduced in detail. With the technology of embedded development, an ARM processor is used as core controller and Linux is adopted as embedded operating system. At last, the design of RTU’s application is described. Compared with other monitoring system, the designed system features good compatibility, great transplantation, rich interface and easy expansion. What’s more, it supports IPv4/IPv6 dual stack to accommodate the next generation of Internet technology in the intelligent oil fields.