From Raw Signals to Real ROI: How Edge Data, SCADA Integration, and Intelligent Recommendations Are Transforming Chemical Management

Chemical management has historically been an operationally complex function in oilfield production, industrial processing, and water treatment operations. It sits at the intersection of fluid delivery, mechanical reliability, power systems, remote logistics, and safety – all in the most rugged and remote environments and locations. But for decades, most chemical and fluid management programs have … Read more

SCADA & Third-Party Integrations in Oil & Gas

Efficiency, safety, uptime, and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable in oil and gas operations. From remote wellheads in the Permian Basin to high-throughput gas processing facilities along the Gulf Coast, operators face a constant challenge: keeping equipment running safely and profitably in increasingly complex and often unmanned environments. At the core of this challenge is SCADA—Supervisory … Read more

How to Improve Frac Tank Monitoring With Automation

Frac tanks are commonly used across the oil and gas industry during hydraulic fracturing, flowback, and produced water management. In the fracking process, they store large volumes of water, chemicals, and proppants used to create the fracturing fluid, ensuring a continuous supply to the well site. According to a report by Ceres, around 5 to 6 million … Read more

Can I install automation if my site doesn’t have cell coverage?

Oilfield automation systems, including things like tank level monitoring and remote pump control, require an internet connection to send data. Unless the devices are connected to a completely air-gapped SCADA system, they’ll connect to the internet at some point. Note: Most modern SCADA systems now use cloud-based data historians like those offered by AWS. Even if … Read more

How Much Does Tank Level Monitoring Really Cost?

The cost of a tank level monitoring system is often top of mind for many operations leaders. There are many, many layers to tank level monitoring, and all of them contribute to tank level monitoring prices. First, you need to pick the right type of sensor. Then, you have to figure out all things connectivity — from networking … Read more

The 5 Industries that Benefit the Most from Tank Level Monitoring

We’ve talked a lot about what remote tank monitoring is and how we implement it through our latest blog series. In this post, we zoom out and discuss how tank level monitoring is actually used in different industries to achieve meaningful business results. After all, that is the goal. So, what types of businesses have the most to gain … Read more

What is Remote Tank Level Monitoring? How to win with TLM

The goal of any IoT project is to generate trustworthy data that empowers people and processes to deliver results. Yet, it can be intimidating to plunge right into such a new and exciting world. We get it. For this reason, we see many organizations dip their toes in the IoT water with remote tank level monitoring (TLM). Tank monitoring … Read more

How Much Are You Paying Your Systems Integrator?

Systems integrators (SIs) are a recent global phenomenon. Wikipedia defines a systems integrator as “a person or company that specializes in bringing together component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together.” In other words, they help customers manage the complexity of big technical projects, such as those involving digital transformation. Overall, … Read more

Don’t Dismiss What Your Remote Monitoring System is Telling You

Remote Monitoring Data Insights One of the main goals of implementing a remote monitoring system is to build a data-driven culture that produces positive business outcomes. With rich, quantitative data, leaders can enhance decision-making, optimize operations, and increase the productivity of their workforces. However, building an effective remote monitoring alerting is not as simple as … Read more

Greenfield IoT versus Brownfield IoT – Can you do both?

Large-scale industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments tend to stall out and fail before they even get started. From data collection problems to bad technology, there are numerous issues that prevent organizations from implementing digital projects successfully. We’ve learned that many of these challenges exist as a result of how leaders approach IIoT deployments. They … Read more

Remote Equipment Servicing at the Forefront in 2020

At WellAware, we understand how much value there is in having real-time access to high-resolution information about physical assets. Service providers that can remotely manage smart sensors are empowered to proactively address equipment failures, reduce downtime, and optimize maintenance processes. They can study the health of valuable machinery and mitigate problems before they occur. Many … Read more

Why Remote Monitoring is Crucial for Employee Health & Safety

Whether in the office or at manufacturing sites and other production facilities, the health and safety of workers dictate the success of daily operations. In today’s environment, unforeseen health and safety hazards pop up at a moment’s notice. For industrial companies, equipping your factory or manufacturing operations with the tools necessary to remotely monitor and control assets is crucial to not disrupt operations during an unforeseen event. Working from a remote location then becomes an easy … Read more

How to monitor remote assets: Discover Missing Data

One of the biggest data challenges facing industrial companies trying to learn how to monitor remote assets is the problem of missing data. What do we mean by missing data? Basically, it’s valuable information about our people or assets that just isn’t being collected because the perception is that doing so would cost too much or … Read more

The Overlooked Cost of Low Valued Assets

As the Chief Product Officer, I frequently speak with our customers about their business needs and goals surrounding remote monitoring systems. The conversations I have often begin with a focus on the highest valued assets – the ones on which production hinges, and where performance improvement can result in better business outcomes, lower operating costs, … Read more

Remote monitoring systems can misidentify data sources

In our industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data problem series, we’ve arrived at the tricky issue of misidentified data in remote monitoring systems. Misidentified data is high-quality, complete, and on time. However, the identity of the asset it represents in the remote monitoring system has been mislabeled. As a result, the misidentified data is highly … Read more