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INDUSTRY · OIL & GAS

Your assets are remote, unmanned, and offline half the time. Your monitoring shouldn't quit when the network does.

Well heads, pump stations, compressors, and turbines — spread across fields, often with no PLC to talk to and no reliable connection home. Elpis reads the sensor directly where there's no controller, runs on battery and 4G, keeps working offline, and watches the rotating equipment that strands a site when it fails. Operating across India and the Middle East.

Remote-field acquisition: mDAQ direct-sensor reads · Modbus TCP · OPC UA Client. FANUC MT-LINKi REST on the roadmap.

THE REALITY IN THE FIELD

The asset is in the field. The data has to come to you.

Oil & gas assets don't sit on a tidy factory floor. A well head on a desert lease. A pump station an hour off the nearest road. A compressor skid on a pipeline right-of-way. A turbine in a remote facility no one staffs full-time. Many were never built around a programmable controller, and the ones that have one often expose nothing useful — a locked, proprietary box bought for control, not for data. The reading you need is right there at the equipment. Nothing is carrying it anywhere.

Then there's the network. Connectivity at these sites is intermittent by nature — a 4G signal that comes and goes, a satellite link that's expensive and slow, hours or days between backhaul windows. A monitoring approach that assumes a steady connection home simply stops working the moment the link drops, and the data that would have flagged a failing pump or a contaminated lubrication system is lost on the spot — exactly when an unmanned site can least afford a surprise. Rotating equipment is where the consequence concentrates: a pump, a compressor, or a turbine going down doesn't slow production, it strands a site.

The answer isn't running fiber to every well head. It's putting the intelligence at the edge: read the sensor directly when there's no controller to ask, run on battery and 4G so the site doesn't depend on infrastructure it doesn't have, work offline and queue everything locally, and backhaul in order when the link returns. Watch the rotating equipment and the oil that keeps it alive, and let the SCADA system keep doing its job.

"A monitoring approach that assumes a steady connection home stops working the moment the link drops."

WHAT ELPIS DOES IN THE FIELD

Read it at the edge. Hold it through the outage. Send it when you can.

Read the sensor directly — no controller required.At remote and unmanned sites with no PLC, or a locked controller that exposes nothing, mDAQ acquires the signal straight from the sensor — temperature, pressure, flow, vibration — running on battery and 4G. It operates offline by design: readings queue locally and replay in source order when the link returns, so a backhaul gap doesn't become a data gap. → /capabilities/data-acquisition
Watch the equipment that strands a site.VAS reads vibration signatures on the rotating equipment a field lives on — pumps, compressors, turbines, fans — and E-IDOS reads particle contamination and water saturation on hydraulic and lubrication oil (ISO 4406 / NAS 1638). Early warning on a signature your reliability team sets, so a failing bearing or a degrading lube system shows up before it pulls an unmanned asset down. → /capabilities/condition-monitoring
Know where the asset is and how hard it's working.mTracker reports utilization and location on remote and mobile assets — so a compressor on a lease or a pump skid in the field stays accountable even when no one is standing next to it. → /capabilities/asset-intelligence
Speak the controller where one exists.Where a site does have a PLC or controller worth reading, EdgeConnect polls it over native protocols — Modbus TCP, OPC UA Client where it's exposed, plus the wider shipped protocol set — and normalizes every signal to one canonical vocabulary at the edge. → /capabilities/connectivity-edge

Read it at the edge. Hold it through the outage. Send it when you can.

PROOF POSTURE

Built for sites no one is standing next to.

Elpis is deployed across remote and distributed industrial operations — dispersed sites with consequence-heavy rotating equipment and intermittent connectivity. Operating across India and the Middle East. The platform runs offline-first: the license validates locally with no phone-home, and per-route store-and-forward is built to preserve every reading through a network drop — queuing locally and replaying in source order on reconnect or scheduled backhaul. Every configuration change is captured in a hash-chained, tamper-evident audit trail.

Full operational trust posture → /security · Anonymized deployment patterns → /customers

COMMON QUESTIONS

What oil & gas teams ask first.

Our remote sites have no PLC and no reliable network. Can you still monitor them?

Yes — that's the design point. Where there's no controller to ask, mDAQ reads the sensor directly (temperature, pressure, flow, vibration) on battery and 4G. It operates offline: readings queue locally in per-route store-and-forward and replay in source order when the link returns or the next backhaul window opens. A connectivity gap doesn't have to become a data gap.

Can you monitor our pumps, compressors, and turbines — plus the hydraulics — for early failure?

Yes. VAS reads vibration signatures on rotating equipment (pumps, compressors, turbines, fans); E-IDOS reads hydraulic and lubrication oil health — particle contamination and water saturation (ISO 4406 / NAS 1638). They give early warning when a signature crosses a threshold your reliability team defines — a better trigger than a calendar, not a guarantee against every failure.

Our sites are in hazardous areas. Is your hardware certified for that?

We make no hazardous-area certification claim — no ATEX, IECEx, Ex, or Class/Division rating, and we do not describe the hardware as "intrinsically safe." What we do is evaluate enclosure IP-rating compatibility for your specific environment, case-by-case, during the hardware BOM and scoping work — assessed per deployment, not asserted as a blanket certification. Bring your area classification to the scoping call and we assess fit honestly.

We operate multiple fields and stations. Does this aggregate across sites?

Each site runs its own edge deployment with a per-site identity; EREMOS V2 aggregates across sites for a fleet view. Multi-site visibility comes from aggregation — never from one runtime stretched across fields, which would defeat the offline-first design. → /solutions/multi-site-operations

Does this replace our SCADA?

No. Elpis sits beside it. EdgeConnect and mDAQ publish canonical signals (MQTT, OPC UA Server); EREMOS V2 exposes condition status, alarms, and reports via API. Your SCADA keeps operational control and the operator picture; Elpis adds the edge acquisition, condition monitoring, and asset intelligence layer on top. → /architecture

NEXT STEP

Bring us your hardest site — the one no one wants to drive to.

The asset list, the rotating equipment that worries you, what (if anything) exposes data today, and your connectivity reality — that's enough to scope a proof of value. We run it on direct sensor reads or your real protocols, offline-first, against your real signals.