Disclosed is a Test Point Monitor (TPM) remotely coupled to a Test Point
Interrogator (TPI) for the purpose of measuring and communicating cathodic protection
voltage values from an object of interest, generally an underground pipeline. The
TPM automatically measures cathodic voltage records them in its memory. A technician
is guided towards the TPM by a handheld TPI. The TPI includes a GPS function, and
when the technician is in range of the TPM, the TPI will call for the stored TPM
data. The TPM is adapted for storing in its memory past voltage readings, and transmitting
current and past voltage readings to the TPI. The TPI will store data from several
thousand such TPM units for download into a main database via direct connection
to the database, via wireless transmission, or via the internet.