Digital Energy Journal: “Reality Mobile—Expanding mobile technologies frontiers”
The article hits on the importance of leveraging everyday cell phones in new ways to provide enhanced real-time information-sharing between field personnel and remote experts and decision-makers:
“Nearly everyone in the industry uses smart phones these days, all of which are equipped with video cameras and the ability to share files by e-mail, but there are many limitations to using these devices productively for work purposes. Often times the devices operate outside the corporate firewall and network, so there are limitations to the information that can be shared on them. There is also no company-wide system for archiving and managing the data they generate. In addition, they are not particularly well suited to the different data connection speeds the industry has to work with, nor are they equipped to share some of the very large schematics and visualization files that are required to address unforeseen issues in the field.
Virginia (US) company Reality Mobile has been developing a solution to these issues since its creation in 2003. Originally conceived for security applications within the federal government, Reality Mobile’s software platform enables instant collaborative problem solving. Once installed, users can connect via mobile devices including smart phones and portable video cameras, or with more standard devices such as laptop computers to share data and video in real time.
‘In the oil and gas industry, you have very high value assets that are often located in very remote locations,’ says Patrick McVeigh, chairman, Reality Mobile. ‘Reality Mobile’s platform is designed as a 911 system that puts you in contact with the people and information you need most at the push of a button.’”
Later in the article, Leif André Skare (an industry veteran and a partner at Energy Venture Partners, one of our shareholders) comments further that:
“‘Under the way most oil and gas companies currently operate, you have experts sitting in a Houston office, for example, that are responsible for assets in southeast Asia, Europe and Africa,’ says Leif Andre Skare, partner at Energy Ventures. ‘If something breaks, you have to fly these experts out to the location in order to repair the issue. Often this can require more trips and expenses to bring out the proper equipment or additional experts. Reality Mobile offers a way to shorten repair time by putting experts in the shoes of the people at the scene in order to diagnose and remediate the situation quickly.’”
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