Osprey Identify, the latest intelligent visual monitoring product from Osprey Informatics, is designed for oil and gas operations, enabling companies to remotely detect, recognize and monitor activity at unmanned field sites. Rather than simply recognizing a vehicle is at the gate, Identify determines if the driver is authorized to be on site. Through the use of strategically placed security cameras, the system can also be used to inspect remote locations.
“In oil, gas and mining you have a lot of places that you’d like to be able to regularly see, but would require some serious travel to get there,” says Michael von Hauff, CEO for Osprey Informatics. “Typically, oil, gas and mining lack the infrastructure for traditional video surveillance, like broadband connections and cabling for power. Our system is designed for these challenging conditions.”
Part of the Osprey Reach visual monitoring platform, Identify also supports work-alone programs by ensuring the worker arrives and departs within the expected window, and by giving a supervisor remote visual access to the worker’s activities.
“What Identify allows us to do is tie into the user’s vehicle tracking system,” von Hauff says. “Optionally, an application can be placed on a tablet or smartphone that coordinates the person’s credentials and current GPS location. What that allows you to do is know where people are at any given time. You know what time they got to the site and what time they left.”
The application triggers a geofence and alerts the server, prompting the individual to enter a four-digit PIN to verify their identity. Photo authorization and verification are available through the industrial-grade security cameras. Using a secure Internet link, the cloud-based system displays the name of the authorized driver, tracks arrival and departure times and provides access to imagery and video from the site without the use of swipe cards or other physical access systems. Automated reports can also be sent to a centralized location.
“The application does not track the person when they’re not on site,” he says. “It only tracks if they cross the geofence.”
Searchable stored data can be accessed at a centralized location by any PC, tablet or laptop browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer), as well by secure mobile devices, including iPhone, Android and Blackberry.
System hardware can be purchased or leased. The yearly service package includes the cost of data transmission, data management and tech support. 403/460-4779; www.ospreyinformatics.com.
