One of biggest challenges facing industry is the ability for humans to consume the vast amounts of data created through the lifecycle of revenue generating, physical assets.

Virtualplant is a visualisation platform that enables a human centric, photogrammic approach to supporting operations and maintenance from within the context of an ‘as built’ environment. This approach allows teams to have an interactive experience with production facilities, reducing or replacing the need to travel to the physical site or assets. This technique has a direct impact on safety, risk, cost, and efficiencies in maintaining and operating the assets.

The visualisation platform was ‘born in the cloud’ allowing effective integration to surface the data from existing corporate systems whilst ensuring security, scalability, and rapid operational deployment, from any device, anywhere at any time.

Virtualplant supports decision making for asset integrity, turnaround planning, asset health, safety, and risk audits, and introduces the powerful capability of visual analytics for activities such as corrosion assessment.

Remsense have invested in the latest scanning technologies to ensure high fidelity and the rapid rendering of a visual 3D skin of the ‘as built’ asset; Virtualplant highlights the actual site conditions allowing employees and third-party contractors to familiarise themselves with any facility, reducing the need to travel to site and consequently improving their work-life balance by increasing their effectiveness, whether working from home, in the office or when travelling.

The data capture technique facilitates the automatic curation of the photogrammetry data set. This allows the rapid and effective ingestion to any artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) model to deliver effective use of visual analytics.

Virtualplant uses AI to automatically identify asset tags, providing an asset auditing capability for facilities to check completeness and accuracy of the current asset register. This AI driven visual analytics technique has also been used to create automated corrosion assessments to support corrosion campaigns, removing the need to go to site to carry out the assessments.

Virtualplant supports the integration to the user’s current ‘systems of record’, supporting new ways of working to encompass visualisation as a methodology to improve maintenance strategies and the ergonomics of activities at the production facility.

The Virtualplant visualisation platform is an Amazon Web Services certified product, built in the cloud to be serverless, highly secure and reliable.

The solution is extremely efficient to operationalise, being quick to scan, quick to process and simple to deploy; Virtualplant can be live in four to six weeks for any major asset whilst sections and areas can be re-scanned in hours when needed.

Virtualplant was initially designed for the exploration and production industry but can be widely used across a range of assets intensive industries for a multitude of use cases.

Virtualplant gives the experience of being there without going there.

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