Challenge
A global oil and gas company needed an affordable and scalable industrial sensor analytics platform to:
- Monitor mission-critical IoT industrial sensor metrics across global and organization boundaries
- Securely send and deliver additional value-add services
Solution
Architected and implemented an AWS-based IoT analytics solution, which included:
- Designing a cost-effective, cloud-based platform consisting of AWS services and QuickSight for visualization
- Extracting industrial raw data that served as the basis for efficiency, asset health, quality, and resource management metrics from a proprietary system that collects IoT sensor-based data
- Creating simplified, customizable data visualizations and dashboards
- Meeting client and regulatory cybersecurity requirements for data storage location
Outcome
Robust cloud-based business analytics solution allowed customer to:
- Visualize the overall health of industrial assets, facilitate predictive maintenance activity, and advise on refinery optimization measures
- Provide ongoing advisory expertise to oil and gas customers
- Perform preventive maintenance on industrial equipment via dashboard information
- Reduce long-term cost of ownership for software licensing and server maintenance costs
- Expand its operational footprint and revenue with ease and less overhead
Published February 2, 2020
