USE CASES POWERED BY BIQMIND

     1. ENHANCING TRACKING & MONITORING IN HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENTS

CHALLENGE

The safety and timely location of personnel in hazardous environments such as an offshore oil rig are critical. Current mustering processes are manual or require intervention from on-site personnel. Furthermore, there is no way of detecting if unauthorized personnel has entered a highly hazardous zone. Existing personnel tracking solutions are not designed to deal with limited connectivity issues. Moreover, they typically require extensive installation and on-site support to handle downtime and maintenance.

SOLUTION

An enhanced, secure tracking solution that can accurately determine where personnel are located during an emergency or disaster event. Built on Biqmind Cloud-in-a-box which combines Biqmind Acceleration Framework and Biqmind HazPro™ Server, a mesh network and local low latency data computation remove the need for high speed, high volume internet connection. Redundancy and Disaster Recovery is available on-site with seamless data synching when the connection is re-established. On-site security policies facilitate only non-sensitive information being sent to the cloud. Biqmind Mapping Service provides private, contextualized maps on-premise with no loss of functionality offline. The result is more secure, automated and private tracking of personnel.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• More secure, automated and private tracking of personnel
• Tracking solution can be scaled up rapidly
• New services (e.g. hazardous gas monitoring) can be added in an agile, straightforward manner to add new services such as hazardous gas monitoring
• Biqmind Cloud-in-a-Box plug and play capability reduces administrative overhead

                                    2. RAPID SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
CHALLENGE

Companies that work on a project-based business model have to constantly deliver proof of concepts before getting customer buy-in for full-scale solution development. Upon project confirmation, hiring additional manpower and delivering the solution in a timely manner, is costly and challenging.

SOLUTION

The Biqmind Acceleration Framework is used for rapid prototyping and delivering proof of concepts (especially integration of disparate heterogeneous data sources and sensors). Post-sales, Biqmind Acceleration Framework is used for rapid microservices and application development at scale using Continuous Deployment and monitoring of services (e.g. resources, logs) to deliver resiliency including self-healing. The Framework is also used for building backend services and offering APIs for mobile and web applications.

This facilitates more timely and well-informed decision making on proof of concepts and also aids in the maintenance of a lean workforce to handle cyclical sales.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Rapid prototyping with Biqmind Acceleration Framework allows for quicker customer validation and shortened sales cycles
• Reduced risk for creating new solutions
• The consistent customer experience from proof-of-concept to full-scale deployment

                 3. UNIFYING SECURITY SYSTEMS & 3RD PARTY HARDWARE 

CHALLENGE

Security has always been a major concern for businesses leading to disparate security systems being installed. However, managing multiple disparate systems is a challenge and has raised the need for unified management and operation. Hiring additional manpower is costly and challenging and there is deepening reliance on these systems.

SOLUTION

A cloud-based, unified platform that integrates visitor management, video surveillance, access control/intrusion detection and video intercom with remote access by control center operators. This is made possible via the Biqmind Acceleration Framework that allows for different types of data and services from various 3rd party security systems. Unstructured data such as the video footage from the CCTV can be managed via Biqmind Microservices Data Foundation.

The results are enhanced coordination and management of security events, more timely and well-informed decision-making and optimized productivity through a shared resource being used to monitor multiple sites.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Lower future development costs with system integrators using a unified platform to easily integrate additional/multiple hardware
• Consistent customer experience regardless of the hardware used

                    4. MORE EFFECTIVE CORROSION MONITORING 

CHALLENGE

Inspection of pipes in industrial sites is a manual process that requires on-site measurement and access to hard to reach places. In addition, specialist hardware is required to operate in extreme environments and comply with hazardous environment certification. Inaccuracy results due to measurements at different locations. The manpower costs for such work also contributes to long gaps between readings and issues not being identified in a timely manner.

SOLUTION

A wireless monitoring solution is built on the Biqmind Acceleration Framework enables quick decision making and pre-empts maintenance work.

Utilizing Ultrasonic Transducers (with a WirelessHART mesh network backhaul) allow for remote monitoring of the corrosion rate in pipes. Data is available on-site or sent to a cloud-based platform for analysis, defect detection and decision-making.

There is faster defect detection from continuous decision monitoring. Maintenance schedules can be optimized through risk-based assets. Investment in the platform can be managed through amortization; a single corrosion platform being able to serve multiple clients.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• Rapid time to market: The Biqmind Acceleration Framework automates tasks standard and typical for any software development projects, freeing developers up to focus on building out the business logic

                      5. DRIVING BETTER VEHICLE SENSOR SOLUTIONS

CHALLENGE 

Global supply chains are growing more complex. In the quest to improve supply chains, there is an increased demand for real-time information and connection between the vehicle and the driver. Existing fleet management solutions are not effective in collecting, analyzing and applying data in a timely manner. These solutions tend to be heavily dependent on cellular network availability, with poor resilience to keep operations running when suffering connectivity issues.

SOLUTION

A more advanced fleet management platform with on-board computing.

Leveraging Biqmind Acceleration Framework as a central platform, on-board and cloud-based microservices are connected with in-vehicle IoT devices. On-board, Biqmind HazPro™ Server (or a similar device) facilitates cargo environment monitoring, remote prognostics, video-based driver monitoring, and driver health monitoring. Drivers are enabled to do higher value-added tasks through a dashboard-mounted screen.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

• High availability – minimal impact from dead zones with no or limited cellular connectivity
• Compute power on-board allows for low latency applications such as temperature monitoring of perishable goods
• Biqmind Acceleration Framework provides a central platform for accelerating new enhancements e.g. bridging of 3rd party sensors in a scalable, cost-effective way

              6. DELIVERING COMPUTING POWER TO THE EDGE OF OPERATIONS
                 

CHALLENGE

Enterprises face issues of how to deliver computing power and cloud functionality to the edge of their operations, including and especially at sites that are isolated from the cloud or have limited or no internet connectivity.

SOLUTION

The Biqmind Cloud-in-a-Box. Bringing together the Biqmind Acceleration Framework and the Biqmind HazPro™ Server, it provides for flexibility, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and extensibility of your operations. Each unit replicates your cloud wherever you choose to deploy it, including harsh and hazardous environments. It also provides edge computing, storage, and data gateway functionalities for local wireless networks.

BIQMIND BENEFITS

Cloud capabilities, functionalities and applications available anywhere
Edge computing and data processing capabilities facilitate proprietary data processing on restrictive local networks and rapid action on data from local device networks
Built-in redundancy, resilience, and scale

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