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identify and report on the assets,” Ford said. “So, we asked

TECH VS. CULTURE ourselves the question, ‘If we could reliably stream the

As technology advances at speed across industries in re- content that inspection personnel look at offshore, could lation to digitalization, data, autonomy, and energy transi- we enable them to complete the same task onshore?’” Ford tion, it’s clear that it’s not just technology maturity that explained. “This exposed a number of extremely complex impacts the ability of organizations to truly transform their problems given that satellite connections can be intermit- operations, to make them more ef?cient, safe, and cost-ef- tent and unreliable with limited bandwidth capacity.

fective. There remain various hurdles, perhaps none higher

Ford explained that Harvest’s RiS™ was developed to than company habit and culture.

enable the transmission of quality video and the associated “This is a really important question and I think by far metadata along with clear and reliable audio system over the biggest hurdle for companies transitioning to remote these satellite links or networks, meaning operators could operations or implementing this type of technology is transform how they worked without needing to change the change management,” said Brown. “It is really a different infrastructure they worked with. way of doing things and bringing your staff and your team “The solution itself is unique; it's intuitive, it's functional, along for the journey, communicating why it's being done but most of all, it's reliable and the only system we know of and what the bene?ts are is essential. So, by far and above, speci?cally designed to solve the technical problems of remote the biggest one is change management,” Brown noted.

inspection. Plus, it's optimized to run on the most limited

Change management aside, Brown and Ford see bound- networks in any remote location on the planet,” Ford said.

less opportunity for all in this space. “The whole industry, “Another key element is, without question, security,” in one form or another, is transitioning towards remote,

Ford added. “We have to be able to do it securely; we know robotics and autonomy. If there's a means to do some- with certainty that our data paths cannot be intercepted thing in a more environmentally ef?cient manner, a more or interfered with; so someone can't take control or give cost-effective manner, and a safer manner, why would we wrong information. Security is paramount.” not adopt it?”, Brown said.

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