Empowering Frontline Workers To Work Effectively With Hands-Free Computing Devices

A significant space of curiosity in wearable know-how is its capacity to free the wearer’s arms, permitting the employee to carry out duties with none hindrance. Wearable gadgets can increase pure human capabilities, resembling higher imaginative and prescient or scent (fuel detection), thereby growing the productiveness and security of oilfield operations.

In an industrial context, wearable gadgets present the wearer with a secure and safe office whereas minimizing the impact of unexpected occasions. Discipline employees are usually extra vulnerable to well being issues and accidents when working in industrial environments that embody distant areas, property that’s not simply accessible, excessive temperature and strain modifications, and the presence of heavy equipment. In such working situations, wearable gadgets can seize necessary discipline workforce statistics and well being monitoring and transmit them to regulate facilities in actual time.

Analysis and growth of a custom-made software for supporting wearable know-how effectively at onshore websites for the Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm have helped

  • Elevated the response time and accuracy for frontline jobs
  • Enabled prompt entry to paperwork and supplies whereas at work
  • Supplied a brand new approach of performing frontline jobs, extra effectively and safely

Limitations of the know-how contains

  • The appliance is written for Android gadgets and can’t be put in in gadgets that don’t assist the Android working system.
  • The appliance is developed and optimized to run on personal Common Packet Radio Service (GPRS) community and can’t be prolonged to every other community situations.
  • Though the applying is optimized to run on a low-bandwidth community, its seamless performance requires an honest community connectivity.

SPE members can download the complete paper from SPE’s Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability Technical Discipline page for free from 26 September to 9 October.

Find paper SPE 216880 on OnePetro here.

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