In May 2018 the UK oil & gas industry, led by the Oil & Gas Technology Centre (“OGTC”) in Aberdeen, held a workshop to determine the key enabler to speed up the adoption of digital worker technologies across the sector. The conclusion from the industry was that the industry required a single cross-industry connected worker platform which could be deployed anywhere in the world, and onto which oil majors and their supply chains could attach smart devices relevant to each, from a variety of device manufacturers.

In January 2019 our connected worker platform was selected by the OGTC for development into that common platform. The OGTC has led investment into a project supported by BP, Wood, Stork, Draeger and Tampnet to:

· Ensure that the hardware elements of our platform meet intrinsically safe certifications standards

· Ensure that the software elements of our platform meet the reliability, scalability and security standards required by those companies for integration into their own I.T systems

· Pilot the platform in early 2020 across a number of sites upstream and downstream operated by the project partners