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The State of the Industrial Metaverse
/Driven by the likes of Boeing, Microsoft, Nvidia, Siemens, and Unilever, the industrial metaverse continues to evolve from surreal to reality by incorporating technologies like AR, VR, AI, 3D modeling, 5G, edge computing, IoT, and digital twins.
Read MorePower up with Beamo
/Beamo is joining the upcoming Industrial Digital Twin Summit, an event that will take place in Houston, TX from August 29th to 31st.
Get ready because Beamo Digital Twins is bringing the POW! In POWER this August. Beamo will be joining the Industrial Digital Twin Summit, a co-located event under Industrial Immersive Week, from August 29th to 31st in Houston, TX.
Industrial Immersive Week, together with other co-located events such as Industrial XR Forum Global Summit and Energy EdgeTECH Summit, is uniting the many players of the industrial and energy digital reality ecosystem in one space, including:
AR/VR/XR / Digital Reality / Spatial Computing
Digital Twins / Immersive Visualization / Digital Asset Intelligence
Edge / Fog / Cloud Computing
IIoT / Connectivity / 5G
Reality Capture / 3D / 360
Blockchain / Cybersecurity
The Industrial Digital Twin Summit, on the other hand, is a more specialized event, bringing together energy and innovation industry leaders, DT experts for oil & gas, power/utilities and petrochemical asset owners/operations, service companies, engineering & tech solution providers.
Beamo is an enterprise-grade Digital Twin solution for mission-critical facilities and remote sites. It costs a lot to move people around, especially now. But when it comes to visiting physical spaces, like oil rigs, refineries, or power plants, there is no effective alternative - you either go there or not. Beamo makes it natural for you to capture your most critical assets in 3D, augment them with tribal knowledge, and collaborate from anywhere.
But you’ve got to see it to believe it, so drop by Booth 301. We’ll show you how you can use Beamo Digital Twins for remote inspections, performance monitoring, training, documentation, and more!
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Digital Twins are useless for remote inspections. Or are they?
By Naresh Parshotam, Head of Beamo, 3i Inc
August 30, 9:30 AM (CDT) | Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria, Ballroom Discovery A
Digital Twins are commonly used for remote performance monitoring and simulation of equipment performance. Can digital twins also be leveraged for remote inspections? Are there other use cases that are applicable to digital twins? Find out more about using digital twins for remote inspections and more in your mission-critical sites.
Physically inspecting facilities in the O&G and power sector is always a challenge because of inaccessibility, high travel costs, unreliable connectivity, high specialization and risk of hazards, tedious reporting, and poor or missing documentation.
Digital Twins offer companies a centralized spatial platform for documentation, collaboration, and training and allow remote system health monitoring and optimization of assets.
Leveraging Digital Twins for remote inspections and performance monitoring is a viable solution for cost reduction.
Navigate remote sites, as if you were there
With sites scattered across the globe, often situated in remote places, it has become increasingly challenging to provide the right degree of visibility to the multiple stakeholders involved.
+ Beamo lets you create an immersive 3D view of your facilities and interact with it in one integrated platform. Reduce your visits onsite.
+ Collaborate and communicate closely with energy and utility services and third-party contractors, share detailed information, plan together, and standardize operations.
+ Manage risks, control costs, and optimize the performance of employees.
Manage critical assets with a centralized visual portal
Operations experts, safety executives, maintenance and reliability directors, and managers lack a tool to easily power their digital transformation. Without it, you miss out on opportunities for operational excellence and improvements in asset management.
+ Beamo provides real-time insight into operations by aggregating sensor data and integrating with your monitoring tools.
+ Beamo lets you tap into a large amount of unstructured and structured data and keep it visually organized in space.
+ Keep equipment in top shape and insure regulatory compliance, unify maintenance, inspection, and documentation processes into one centralized platform. (h/t beamo.ai)
The Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition Seeks to Improve Safety, Efficiency, Security, and ROI
/For the past ten years, innovators all around the globe have found ways to transform unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones, as we normally call them, into versatile, specialized platforms to perform tasks that were either too difficult, too dangerous, or too expensive to accomplish with conventional methods and crewed aircraft.
The energy industry in particular found huge value in using uncrewed platforms to undertake risky assignments. It is difficult to imagine something riskier than dealing with a flammable substance that emerges from the ground with great pressure. Traditionally, oil companies have found ways to isolate, or distance, humans from most dangerous operations using technology but now, with the emergence of robotics, this trend is growing exponentially.
This need to isolate people from dangerous tasks in the energy industry motivated a group of individuals and corporations to create the Energy Drone & Robotics Coalition (EDRC), an organization dedicated to improving safety, efficiency, return on investment (ROI), and security in energy operations through the use of UAVs, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
EDRC organizes an annual meeting for its members, and we had the opportunity to attend this year’s event at the Woodlands in Texas where we met with Sean Guerre, Director of EDRC.
“This year, we are here at the sixth annual gathering of our members to exchange ideas and see what the multiple vendors have to offer in the areas of aerial, ground, water surface, and submarine robotic solutions,” Sean said. “It’s amazing how this new, emerging industry is advancing in leaps and bounds, making this event more necessary every year. The number of new solutions and improvements over last year’s products is incredible.”
With over 16,000 community members, the ERDC is chartered with the responsibility to keep up to date in the latest improvements to equipment and processes. The annual event is an opportunity for industry and academia to showcase their innovations.
“Imagine the awesome responsibility of keeping all that oil and gas critical infrastructure safe and in working order,” Sean said with enthusiasm. “Our members are constantly looking for alternative solutions to increase return on investment and to keep their field personnel safe. The Coalition takes the job of bringing the best solutions to its members very seriously, and that’s why this yearly gathering is such an important occasion.” h/t Juan Plaza and Commercial UAV News
Enterprise XR Goes the Distance
/We’re in the early days of industrial XR adoption and use, there are plenty of ROI success stories and they extend beyond training. Sure, XR-enabled training is an obvious place to start within an organization, but bringing Product Development, Operations, Marketing and Sales into the conversations broadens the use cases and ROI potential.
Read MoreUS Green Hydrogen Production, Storage Gets Boost
/The LPO guaranteed a loan of $504.4 million to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage (ACES) project in Utah that will convert renewable energy to hydrogen and store it in two massive salt caverns.
Read MoreDominion Energy Secures Pivotal BVLOS Waiver for Power Facility Inspections
/Dominion Energy and Skydio, announced the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Dominion Energy a pivotal approval to fly Skydio drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) to inspect power generation facilities in seven states.
Read MoreDrone Inspection Building a Scalable and Efficient Data Pipeline for Today and Tomorrow
/Paul Christianson, CloudFactory’s VP of Strategic Industries, sat down with a panel of drone tech pioneers from BVLOS connectivity leader Elsight, drone analytics experts DroneDeploy, and leading drone manufacturer Skydio. The panelists discussed how building a scalable, efficient data pipeline provides reliable, actionable intelligence for drone inspection companies.
Read MoreShell Transforms its Energy Business with AI & Data
/As Shell embraces the goal of a low-carbon energy future, the company has had to become an AI-powered technology company in order to deploy crucial solutions at a rapid pace.
Read MoreEfficiency Boosting Robots Increasing in Popularity
/The robotics industry is expected to continue to grow as developments in the technology are boosting safety standards and efficiency throughout a variety of industries.
Read MoreNVIDIA Announces Successful 5G VR Proof of Concept
/EV battery manufacturer Hyperbat is using 5G enabled virtual reality to collaborate on product design and testing.
Read MoreO&G Execs Discuss Low Carbon Future
/Executives from oil and gas companies discussed the future of the industry, including net zero goals, at URTeC.
Read MoreWhen the Energy Tech Industry Gathers
/We held the 6th annual Energy Drone & Robotics Summit and the 2nd annual Methane Strategies Forum. We might be biased, but it. was. awesome.
Read MoreUtility Companies Use Technology for Risk Mitigation
/Utility companies are using AI, ML, drones, and other emerging technologies to reduce risk and improve delivery.
Read MoreU.S. Patent Office to Fastrack Green Tech
/The USPTO’s new Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program will accelerate applications related to tech reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Read MoreThe Rise of the Industrial Metaverse
/Relying in large part on Web 3.0 and extended reality, the metaverse promises to usher in a multibillion-dollar shift in the industrial sector.
Read MoremCloud Announces First Upstream Digital Oilfield Solutions in the United States
/mCloud announced it had commenced onboarding its first AssetCare Digital Oilfield solutions at wellsites in the United States as well as launching a new connected worker online store.Read MoreThe Metaverse and Worker Shortages
/The metaverse is expected to help enterprises combat the growing skilled labor shortage.
Read MoreGolden Pass Goes 4D
/Zachry Group has been using 4D and immersive technologies on the Golden Pass LNG Export project.
Read MoreWhich Regions Will Benefit from Federal Carbon Capture Hubs?
/A $3.5 billion carbon capture program unveiled by the U.S. Department of Energy could be a bonanza for four regions around the country.
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