a registry platform for iot in oil and gas

A Registry Platform

for IoT

in Oil and Gas

Overview

• Galdos Overview

• Importance of Metadata Management in IoT

• Registry Platforms

• Applying Registry Platforms in IoT

• Monitoring Gas Pipelines with a Registry Platform

• Summary and Conclusions

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Galdos Systems Inc. – Background

Galdos Systems Inc. is based in Vancouver and was founded by Ron Lake, CEO, in 1998

Galdos is a software products and services company that delivers enterprise location-enabled information management solutions

Galdos delivers solutions in industries such as oil and gas, aviation, urban development, and transportation

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Galdos Customers

Our typical customer is an organisation that seeks to share data within its own organisation and with other stakeholders, customers, and business partners

We have worked with customers from across the public and private sector in Canada and in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East

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Importance of Metadata Management in IoT

IoT applications involve multiple “device” types – potentially large number of types and device instances.

IoT devices may be connected in complex ways.

IoT seeks to enable rapid application deployment through device re-use and re-purposing.



Management of IoT devices is key to the above: Device type (e.g. sensor, actuator, process block

etc.)

Device properties (e.g. make, model, sensitivity etc.)

Device connectivity can assess impact of device removal or failure to meet service criterion.

Device context (e.g. where is it? What real world object(s) is each device associated to.

What tasks and applications is each device supporting?



Knowledge of IoT Device Metadata critical for:

Reducing the cost of using IoT devices.

Asset life cycle management for IoT devices.

Re-use of IoT devices across multiple applications.

Re-purposing of IoT devices


What is a Registry Platform?

An open-standard transactional web-service metadata management platform for rapid registry deployment.

Supports a NoSQL data model combining semantics (taxonomies, associations, objects) and geography.

Automated notification on changes to any objects in the Registry.

Enables creation of business information model for IoT portable across all Registry Platforms.


What is a Registry Platform?

NoSQL Data Model Constructs:

Objects (with properties and binary attachments)

Local and remote binary attachments

Taxonomies as first class objects (properties)

Associations as first class objects.

Any object can have one or more location properties.

Configurable Life Cycle status manement.


Applying Registry Platforms in IoT

Register sensors, actuators and other IoT devices. Classify devices by type

Assign globally unique ID’s to devices and real world objects.

Express connectivity of IoT devices.

Associate IoT devices to real world objects.

Support discovery of IoT devices by applications. Lower cost of device re-use.

Support health monitoring of IoT devices.



Support life cycle asset management for IoT devices.

Notify IoT players (e.g. manufacturers, operators, technicians) on any device changes. Lower cost of device re-use.

Support mapping of devices to applications. Assess application impact of device changes. Reduce cost of application deployment.




Database

Registry platform

IoT Extension Package

Server Side Business Logic

Client Application

Monitoring Gas Pipelines with a Registry Platform

Registry stores IoT device context – namely the Pipeline network.

Registry stores Pipeline component types (updated by manufacturer).

Service provider and/or IoT devices update information respecting state of Pipeline network.


Monitoring Gas Pipelines with a Registry Platform


Manufactured Component Types Registry

Updated by Manufacturers & Operators

Pipeline Network Instance Registry

Updated by Service Providers classify

IoT Device Registry

Updated by Service Providers & IoT devices

associate

Registry registers IoT metadata but may also record IoT data

Can be in a single physical Registry

Summary & Conclusions

Registries a key part of the Information Infrastructure Layer for IoT:

Registration and Discovery of IoT Devices

Device properties and classification

Device connectivity

Device context – location & associated objects.

Device health monitoring

Registries can lower the cost and speedup IoT application deployment and device re-use.


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