Automate PLC Data Collection and Configuration for Major Oil and Gas Solution Provider
What You Need to Know
Collects PLC data from 2000+ well sites
Sends 500 tags from PLC to the cloud fast
Solution meets and exceeds project requirements within 8 weeks
Introduction
A major oil and gas solution provider needs to collect high-resolution PLC data from over 2000 well sites. Each PLC needs to send more than 500 data tags to the cloud, out of which over 120 tags are high-speed tags with 1-second polling interval or faster. This solution requires dynamic configuration of parameters such as polling interval, tag name, R/W property, and data type. Tag definition, which is the definition of all tags for a PLC, needs to be defined, edited, versioned, and dynamically updated.
Challenges
This oil and gas solution provider has end customers waiting on the solution urgently. Prescient worked with this company to build and deliver the solution within 8 weeks. The traditional software development approach would take months to construct and the solution provider neither has the time nor technical personnel to present this specific solution to their end customers in a short amount of time.
Solution
Prescient’s solution meets and exceeds their original requirements. The additional features include loading and saving tag definitions to files or databases, buffering data locally during network outages, pulling batch data from the local buffer on-demand, automatic solution provisioning at power-up, monitoring cellular data usage and logging user activities.
Conclusion
“What Prescient provided in the last couple months was a masterclass for us in IoT/Edge, data pipelines, Grafana, InfluxDB, Node-RED, project management, and on and on.” says the customer’s lead engineer. “We have a much better understanding of what is possible and indeed, a level of proficiency to aspire to.”
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Oil and gas solution provider lead engineer