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Enterprise IoT Summit: IoT and upstream oil and gas

Prognostics using IoT in the context of upstream oil and gas: A gusher of real-time, bottom line results. Moderator Joe Madden, principal analyst of Mobile Experts, is joined by Landon Garner, CMO of Ingenu, Wayne Stargardt, SVP of Operations at Numerex, and Dave Milam,...

Submit nominations for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year

Submission deadline for Enterprise IoT Innovator and Industrialist of the year nominations extended to Sunday, March 26, 2017. Submit your nomination today for recognition as an IIoT or 5G Innovator, Industrialist of the year. Selections will be announced at the Enterprise IoT Summit 2017 on Tuesday,...

Huawei partners with China Telecom, Shenzhen gas on smart utility

To create a smart utility, the firms open a working group to develop gas meter reading and gas grid surveillance solutions. Huawei signed a narrowband "internet of things" cooperation agreement with two compatriot companies, Shenzhen Gas and China Telecom Shenzhen, with the aim of...

Huawei targets the oil and gas industry

Huawei oil and gas partners include Honeywell, Richfit, RFD, Evinsys and Bandweaver Huawei and partners including Honeywell, Richfit, RFD, Evinsys and Bandweaver showcased solutions covering the industry chain of the oil and gas sector during the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) 2016. Some...

Emerson uses IoT to help oil and gas company fix hydrogen leaks

Oil and gas refinery leakage costs hundreds of thousands One of the largest oil and gas refineries in the world, working with various types of crude oil and manufacturing various grades of fuel from motor gasoline to aviation turbine fuel (ATF), needed Emerson's help to fix leakage....

Use Cases: The importance of IoT in upstream oil and gas

What is upstream oil and gas? The upstream oil and gas sector, focused on exploration and production (E&P), includes searching for potential underground or underwater crude oil and natural gas fields, drilling exploratory wells and subsequently drilling and operating the wells that recover and bring crude oil and/or raw...

Use cases: The many IoT applications of drones

Drones are a capitivating IoT example According to a report from retail research firm NPD group, sales of drones have more than tripled over the last year, reaching around $200 million in sales. The increasing interest in using these aerial devices is one of the best illustrations...

Case Study: Shell, Rockwell make oil and gas production smart

The need for an oil and gas solution Oil and gas producers are doing everything they can to grind through a period of historically low per barrel oil prices. The period has stretched on for more than a year now, with per barrel prices getting...

IIoT use cases in the oil and gas industry

An industry in turmOil The oil and gas industry (O&G) is riding out a violent wave that crashed crude oil per barrel prices to less than $40, down more than 60% from the high of summer 2014. The result is a favorable receipt at the...

Industrial internet of things oil and gas case study

Orange Business Services working with Swiss oil and gas firm on remote monitoring Orange Business Services won a three-year contract with Swiss firm Sensile Technologies to remotely monitor oil and gas tanks worldwide with M2M connectivity, according to Orange. Under the terms of the deal, Orange...

Reader Forum: How mesh networks create a smart city

Reliable communication networks can make city services more intelligent, including water and power supply Time and tide wait for no man, and our world continues to present us with alarming new challenges to battle: cyber-attacks, terrorism, erratic weather patterns, water scarcity, food shortages – to...

Pumping profits: Shell saves $1M with IoT

Low oil prices mean petroleum producers need to spend and invest more carefully than ever, and the "Internet of Things" is helping. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell realized a $1 million return on an $87,000 investment in digital technology to monitor oilfields in some...