(WO) – Salunda, the worldwide chief in digitized options for security crucial industries, has secured an settlement to supply bp with its Crew Hawk Purple Zone monitoring resolution to be used throughout the operator’s North Sea belongings.
The regional roll-out has been agreed following profitable discipline trials of the system on bp’s Clair Ridge platform and has been adopted to make sure safer Purple Zone administration for varied hazardous operations. It’s the first time the expertise has been used for properly interventions.
Crew Hawk wirelessly displays hazardous working environments in real-time, monitoring people and gear to supply anonymized suggestions that focuses on protected operations and minimizing threat.
Alan Finlay, Salunda Chief Government, stated: “That is an thrilling mission for Salunda and we’re happy to be deploying our Crew Hawk expertise on bp’s North Sea services.
“We’re dedicated to constantly enhancing the welfare of individuals working in safety-critical industries. To this impact, Crew Hawk has redefined Purple Zone monitoring by offering instantaneous updates to the realm authority and use of the expertise drastically enhances the security of hazardous operations.”
The Crew Hawk gear was shipped to Clair Ridge, positioned west of Shetland, the place it was examined for location accuracy, working modes and reliability to make sure the crew’s particular person alarms had been activated as programmed.
Crew Hawk, which meets, or surpasses, the business’s stringent certification necessities (MET, IECEx and ATEX), permits customers to arrange perimeters within the working atmosphere round areas that pose the best threat to personnel.
For dynamic conditions, a zone will be triggered round activated gear or equipment. People then obtain direct alerts ought to they enter these zones.
When a person enters an exclusion space, or Purple Zone, it immediately triggers an alarm, sending notifications to each the person’s private locator and the realm authority, permitting each events to take corrective motion.
Crew Hawk has already been used to trace workforce belongings and supply an extra layer of consciousness and alerts to operational plans whereas working with rig management options for patrons.
Efficiency dashboards provide an summary of operational and security statistics, whereas a playback function permits for a extra in-depth investigation of zone violations or incidents in a piece space. Heatmaps of the placement of people can be utilized to optimise working procedures, folks placement and space structure.
Based in 2013, Salunda is a UK-headquartered enterprise serving safety-critical industries. Its workforce invents, deploys and evolves patented, Purple Zone security monitoring expertise that protects folks and belongings.
With greater than 100 methods deployed worldwide, Salunda’s expertise (notably, its Hawk platform), integrates real-time location and situation knowledge from patented wi-fi sensors and cameras, to supply essentially the most complete oversight of Purple Zone areas.
Salunda’s proprietary expertise is protected, safe and appropriate for the harshest environments, with greater than 100 patents and unique licenses in place
Importantly, its expertise has been market confirmed and field-tested for greater than a decade.
