Norsat International, a pioneer in solving the full-spectrum communication challenges presented by difficult environments and a regular provider of such solutions to end markets that range from telecom and healthcare to military and homeland security, reported today that the company has launched their new Sentinel Remote site Monitoring and Control (RMC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) data as a service platform for the burgeoning oil and gas industry.
This is a robust initial offering from NSATF’s new M2M Solutions line that can handle complete end-to-end functions and features an extremely durable and heavily ruggedized remote terminal unit (RTU) for data capture and management, in addition it comes complete with communication services and hosting facilities, all executed via a highly-intuitive web interface that allows for rapid analysis and notification pattern recognition. Sentinel RMC is the perfect hardware and data as a service bundle for operators in the often logistically daunting oil and gas sector, which regularly presents logistical problems that cannot be overcome without such a globally active, remote site monitoring solution that can handle both data management and control in real-time.
President and CEO of NSATF, Dr. Amiee Chan, underscored features like the hardened hosting facility that shields customer data (multiple redundancies), broad communication service support (from satellite to cellular, and point-to-point microwave), and the intuitive web-based monitoring portal that lets users view vital thresholds and be alerted to any alarm notifications in real-time. Being able to reach out to critical infrastructure remotely from anywhere in the world like this with such control and to have supreme situational awareness over operations is something that the oil and gas industry as a whole has been crying out for. NSATF has put together a powerful, cost-effective package here that should make a huge splash as the company diversifies into this rapidly growing market, appealing directly to operators who can rest easy knowing that Norsat will live up to their reputation for providing rock-solid communication solutions and rugged product design.
Sentinel RMC is perfectly designed to handle down-hole well monitoring duties and the platform is so powerful it can easily deal with just about any other real-time monitoring/control job thrown at it, from air/water quality monitoring to early warning weather systems and a host of other applications. This level of M2M capability is able to provide superior systemic control over infrastructure without the massive overhead typically associated with such deployments. The design itself allows for deployment in even extremely challenging environments, meaning that the sky’s the limit for this tech line, especially with NSATF’s clientele in maritime, telecom, and military concerns, which are all possible points of secondary traction.
The global reach of Norsat’s technology is underpinned by a growing oil and gas development here in North America, as new frontiers in energy open up consequent with prevailing advances in recovery technology and the hydrocarbon activity uptick on the world stage, from Africa to South America, is keeping pace or exceeding the domestic industry. This trend spells out a very clear future for the company’s blossoming M2M line and investors will be keen to see how this new vector develops for Norsat, whose existing product/service offerings are already quite successful.
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