Oil and gas companies have so many assets running far far away from civilization it’s a wonder that more are not getting an automation makeover using edge computing.
One of the oldestideas in industrial automation is to hook up some device to a computer system to keep an eye on it remotely. What happens when we scale this idea up?
Did you happen to notice the modest press release on the use of distributed ledger technology to handle oil and gas royaltypayments? I did, and frankly, the implications are too big to ignore.