bpx energy Transforms Production Operations Through AWS Energy Industry Solutions
Solution overview
The following reference architecture shows the overall solution, with the Industrial Machine Connectivity (IMC) highlighted in orange below.
bpx energy Production Monitoring and Surveillance Reference architecture
IMC on AWS helps energy customers and partners accelerate digital transformation. It brings data from Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) assets to AWS in a structured way. Customers can extract insights from their OT data, increase efficiency, and reduce operational costs. IMC is for developers, regional and global systems integrators (SI), independent software vendors (ISV), and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) who want to generate business value from an IIoT architecture. ISV partners provide edge software and cloud native applications that can extract data from OT data stores to generate insights. SI partners bring implementation experience to customers and further develop custom applications to meet their unique needs.
During bpx energy implementation, we worked with partner solutions and teams to unlock data from proprietary applications and data silos. The cloud native solution integrated OT and IT for value-added analytical use cases. Data eventually lands in the Industrial Data Lake (IDL), shown on the right half of the architecture. The IDL implements a Lake House architecture on AWS, using an “inside-out” approach, where data in the data lake is ingested into purpose-built data stores for analytics. For example, the IDL implementation uses Amazon Timestream, a time series database that enables customers to derive deeper insights from their industrial data through time series analytics using SQL.
Amazon Timestream is a purpose-built managed time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day. It saves time and cost in managing the lifecycle of time series data by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost optimized storage tier based upon user defined policies. Amazon Timestream also has built-in time series analytics functions, helping customers identify data trends and patterns in near real-time. bpx energy uses Timestream to store time series data from IoT devices and from packaged OT software solutions.
Implementation partner teams included Embassy of Things (EoT) and TensorIoT. EoT deployed their ETL++ Operational Data Delivery Software System “TwinTalk” at bpx energy. TwinTalk extracts raw data tag values from the source SCADA system, enhances it with contextual meta data, and delivers it to AWS native services such as AWS IoT SiteWise and Amazon S3 via data pipelines in near real-time. Continue to read the full AWS Blog: Here
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