19th Australian Software Engineering Conference

StatoilHydro is leading in the use of deepwater technology and carbon-capture and storage. StatoilHydro is putting huge effort and resources into the concept of Integrated Operations, where real-time data combined with new collaboration solutions contribute to remove barriers between disciplines, expert groups and the company. The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia. Established in 1950, SINTEF provides research-based knowledge and related services to customers in industry such as StatoilHydro. It also provides services to venture companies and the public sector world-wide. The organizations knowledge base stems from vast experience and research in technology, the natural and social sciences and medicine, including technology management in all fields.

Staoil Recent advances in wireless technology have enabled the development of low-cost wireless solutions capable of robust and reliable communication within application areas such as wireless networking, wireless sensing, monitoring, and control, and wireless asset and personnel tracking. For the Oil & Gas industry, using this technology will lead to reduced operation costs as well as enable new applications.

Staoil This Industry track plenary keynote will discuss many aspects of software challenges related to the introduction of wireless technology in the Oil & Gas Industry. First of all, a typical wireless device is an embedded platform with very limited resources (CPU speed, memory, storage space), and often with strict requirements for low power operation - yet at the same time they will need to execute software implementations of complex real-time networking algorithms. Secondly, a wireless solution has accompanying user applications for configuration, monitoring and control. A main challenge is to allow for these applications to be used by technical personnel which do not necessarily have extensive knowledge of the underlying wireless technology. Finally, introducing software applications for wireless networking, wireless sensor networks and wireless asset tracking will create the need for new management, control and user applications in different levels of the existing network infrastructure.

Simon Carlsen is working as a Systems Engineer in the field of Industrial IT in StatoilHydro. His work fields cover wireless communication, sensor technology and real-time data acquisition. He has been working on standardizing Wireless LAN solutions in StatoilHydro’s Oil & Gas production environments, as well as examining different wireless protocols and implementations of wireless sensor technologies. During the last year Simon Carlsen has currently focused on wireless sensor networks (IEEE 802.15.4, WirelessHART, IEEE 802.11 b/g/a) as a member of an experts group working on wireless sensor technology for the Oil & Gas industry.

Stig Petersen (M.Sc) is a Research Scientist with SINTEF ICT / Dept. of Communication Systems, Norway, has worked as a Research Scientist at SINTEF ICT in Trondheim, Norway since 2002, within the area of wireless communication, both standardized (Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, IEEE 802.15.4) and custom-made solutions. His work has ranged from implementing Medium Access Control and network protocols in microcontrollers on embedded platforms, to creating Windows and Linux based control and user applications. Recently, he has focused on the field of wireless communication within the confines of the Oil & Gas industry. This work has included theoretical assessments of both current and forthcoming international standards (IEEE 802.11a/b/g, IEEE 802.15.4, WirelessHART), as well as practical analysis and measurements of proprietary state-of-the-art wireless solutions.