SensorUp

Last updated
SensorUp
Company type Private
Founder Steve Liang
Headquarters
Calgary
ServicesMethane Emissions Management SaaS; Multi-sensor methane data collection and analysis for oil and gas
Website sensorup.com

SensorUp Inc. is a Canadian company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, specializing in methane emissions management software. It is recognized for its advancements in the oil and gas sector with its methane emissions management SaaS platform, SensorUp GEMS, and for developing the [1] Open Geospatial Consortium SensorThings API standard specification.

Contents

Expansion into Oil and Gas

In late 2022, SensorUp Inc. leveraged its foundational IoT expertise to expand into the oil and gas industry by introducing the SensorUp Gas Emissions Management Solution (GEMS), a SaaS platform for methane emissions management. [2] This was a strategic move marked by the launch of a new website featuring SensorUp GEMS in June 2023. The GEMS platform integrates various data sources, including methane emission sensor data from most 3rd parties, Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) inspection data, and operational data from SCADA and ERP systems, to provide a solution for methane leak detection and repair (LDAR).

SensorUp GEMS

SensorUp GEMS, designed for the oil and gas industry, focuses on methane emissions management. [2] This SaaS platform integrates with direct measurement and detection technology, including OGI, flyovers, ERP, and SCADA systems, for precise methane detection data gathering and quantification. It facilitates emissions reduction by utilizing measurement data, emission factors, and methane reduction technologies. Compliant with the GHG Protocol, SensorUp GEMS contributes to methane intensity assessment and operational efficiency. The platform supports regulatory reporting and MRV processes, aligning with decarbonization, carbon-neutral, and net-zero targets. Adhering to transparency and stakeholder engagement, SensorUp GEMS aligns with OGMP 2.0, GTI Veritas, and MiQ standards, emphasizing responsible gas management and ESG suite requirements.

Impact and Customer Adoption

SensorUp’s GEMS platform has been adopted by the energy sector, including Oxy (Occidental Petroleum), [3] to optimize methane reduction and advance low-carbon business objectives. With its approach to managing methane emissions, SensorUp GEMS is a critical tool for energy companies seeking to transition towards net-zero operations and reduce their carbon footprint.

Leadership and Series B Funding

In July 2023, SensorUp announced a significant milestone with a CAD 12 million Series B funding round led by Climate Investment (OGCI). [3] [4] This funding round, supported by Evok Innovations, will accelerate product development and expand sales channels of SensorUp's gas emissions management solution. In the same month, Terry Cunningham, an executive with extensive experience in SaaS, enterprise software, and cloud computing, was appointed as the new CEO of SensorUp. Cunningham's appointment coincides with SensorUp's intensified focus on the methane emissions management landscape. Dr. Steve Liang, Founder, continues in the CTO role.

History

In 2014, SensorUp received funding supports from Natural Resources Canada's GeoConnections [5] and TecTerra. [6] In 2016, as part of the OGC Internet of Things pilot project [7] SensorUp demonstrated its interoperable OGC SensorThings API platform solution[ buzzword ] at the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. Reginald Brothers, the Undersecretary of the Homeland Security Science and Technology, was "impressed with the ‘state of the practical’ where these various industry sensors can be integrated today using open standards that remove the stovepipe limitations of one-off technologies. [8] " In March 2016 SensorUp submitted a new open source software project proposal, titled Whiskers, to the Eclipse Foundation. [9] Whiskers will be an open source Javascript client library for the OGC SensorThings API and a light-weight OGC SensorThings API server for IoT gateways (e.g., Raspberry Pi).

In June 2016, SensorUp joined the ESRI Startup Program, [10] a three-year program that gives us the tools to build mapping and location analytics capabilities into Esri products.

In September 2016, SensorUp partnered with Libelium [11] to cloud-enable Libelium sensor networks with international OGC and ISO standards for the IoT.

In November 2016, SensorUp joined the TELUS T-squared Accelerator. [12]

In January 2017, with the support of Natural Resources Canada, SensorUp launched the Smart City Starter Kit. [13]

The starter kit allows a city or community to set up a large-scale IoT-based smart city solution[ buzzword ] in one afternoon. [14]

In July 2017, SensorUp launched the CloudUAV platform, [15] empowering UAV researchers and users to manage their UAV workflow with an online portal and a smartphone application, based on the OGC SensorThings API.

In May 2018, SensorUp won the NATO Defence Innovation Challenge Award for secured federation of IoT devices. [16]

In June 2018, SensorUp announced that it had raised $2 million in seed financing, led by Vanedge Capital, to create new data-driven IoT business solutions[ buzzword ] for Smart Cities, First Responders, and Oil and Gas Field Services. [17]

In June 2018, SensorUp was selected to present at the Creative Destruction Lab's 2018 super session plenary session.

In September 2018, SensorUp was selected by the Plug and Play Tech Center, joined the IoT Fall 2018 Batch, [18] and presented at Plug and Play's Winter Summit 2018.

In December 2018, SensorUp provided the OGC SensorThings API for a Department of Homeland Security Next Generation First Responder initiative's operational experimentation in Houston, Texas. SensorUp's SensorThings facilitated sensor integration and data provisioning for situational awareness and the common operating picture. [19]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Esri</span> Geospatial software & SaaS company

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri, is an American multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for its ArcGIS products. With a 40% market share in 2011, Esri is one of the world's leading supplier of GIS software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications.

A GIS software program is a computer program to support the use of a geographic information system, providing the ability to create, store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize geographic data, that is, data representing phenomena for which location is important. The GIS software industry encompasses a broad range of commercial and open-source products that provide some or all of these capabilities within various information technology architectures.

Internet of things (IoT) describes devices with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communication networks. The Internet of things encompasses electronics, communication, and computer science engineering. "Internet of things" has been considered a misnomer because devices do not need to be connected to the public internet; they only need to be connected to a network and be individually addressable.

GridPoint is an American clean technology company based in Reston, Virginia, that provides energy management and sustainability services to enterprises and government agencies, such as electric utilities.

Openbravo is a Spanish cloud-based SaaS software provider specializing in retail with headquarters in Pamplona, Spain and offices in Barcelona and Lille. The company was formerly known for being a horizontal open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) software vendor for different industries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Microsoft Azure</span> Cloud computing platform by Microsoft

Microsoft Azure, or just Azure, is the cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft. It has management, access and development of applications and services to individuals, companies, and governments through its global infrastructure. It also provides capabilities that are usually not included within other cloud platforms, including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Microsoft Azure supports many programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

Xively was an Internet of Things (IoT) platform owned by Google. Xively offered product companies a way to connect products, manage connected devices and the data they produce, and integrate that data into other systems. It is pronounced "zively". Its domain name redirects to a Google page about Cloud IoT Core, though that has been retired.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open Geospatial Consortium</span> Standards organization

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), an international voluntary consensus standards organization for geospatial content and location-based services, sensor web and Internet of Things, GIS data processing and data sharing. It originated in 1994 and involves more than 500 commercial, governmental, nonprofit and research organizations in a consensus process encouraging development and implementation of open standards.

The third platform is a term coined by marketing firm International Data Corporation (IDC) for a model of a computing platform. It was promoted as inter-dependencies between mobile computing, social media, cloud computing, and information / analytics, and possibly the Internet of things. The term was in use in 2013, and possibly earlier. Gartner claimed that these interdependent trends were "transforming the way people and businesses relate to technology" and have since provided a number of reports on the topic.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services offered by Google that provides a series of modular cloud services including computing, data storage, data analytics, and machine learning, alongside a set of management tools. It runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search, Gmail, and Google Docs, according to Verma et al. Registration requires a credit card or bank account details.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cleo Communications</span>

Cleo Communications LLC, simply referred to as Cleo, is a privately held software company founded in 1976. The company is best known for its ecosystem integration platform, Cleo Integration Cloud with RADAR.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">OptiRTC</span>

OptiRTC is an American technology company that has developed a software as a service platform for civil infrastructure. The OptiRTC platform is a cloud-native platform that integrates sensors, forecasts, and environmental contexts to actively control stormwater infrastructure. The OptiRTC platform is built on Microsoft Azure and uses internet of things technology to predicatively manage distributed water systems.

Android Things is a deprecated Android-based embedded operating system platform by Google, announced at Google I/O 2015, and launched in 2018. Android Things Dashboard shutdown began on January 5, 2021. After January 5, 2022, Android Things Dashboard has been shut down completely and all remaining data has been deleted.

Brivo, Inc. is a smart building company providing cloud-based access control and video surveillance products for physical security and internet of things applications.

SensorThings API is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard providing an open and unified framework to interconnect IoT sensing devices, data, and applications over the Web. It is an open standard addressing the syntactic interoperability and semantic interoperability of the Internet of Things. It complements the existing IoT networking protocols such CoAP, MQTT, HTTP, 6LowPAN. While the above-mentioned IoT networking protocols are addressing the ability for different IoT systems to exchange information, OGC SensorThings API is addressing the ability for different IoT systems to use and understand the exchanged information. As an OGC standard, SensorThings API also allows easy integration into existing Spatial Data Infrastructures or Geographic Information Systems.

oneM2M

oneM2M is a global partnership project founded in 2012 and constituted by 8 of the world's leading ICT standards development organizations, notably: ARIB (Japan), ATIS, CCSA (China), ETSI (Europe), TIA (USA), TSDSI (India), TTA (Korea) and TTC (Japan). The goal of the organization is to create a global technical standard for interoperability concerning the architecture, API specifications, security and enrolment solutions for Machine-to-Machine and IoT technologies based on requirements contributed by its members.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oracle Cloud</span> Cloud computing service

Oracle Cloud is a cloud computing service offered by Oracle Corporation providing servers, storage, network, applications and services through a global network of Oracle Corporation managed data centers. The company allows these services to be provisioned on demand over the Internet.

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) refers to interconnected sensors, instruments, and other devices networked together with computers' industrial applications, including manufacturing and energy management. This connectivity allows for data collection, exchange, and analysis, potentially facilitating improvements in productivity and efficiency as well as other economic benefits. The IIoT is an evolution of a distributed control system (DCS) that allows for a higher degree of automation by using cloud computing to refine and optimize the process controls.

The Internet of Military Things (IoMT) is a class of Internet of things for combat operations and warfare. It is a complex network of interconnected entities, or "things", in the military domain that continually communicate with each other to coordinate, learn, and interact with the physical environment to accomplish a broad range of activities in a more efficient and informed manner. The concept of IoMT is largely driven by the idea that future military battles will be dominated by machine intelligence and cyber warfare and will likely take place in urban environments. By creating a miniature ecosystem of smart technology capable of distilling sensory information and autonomously governing multiple tasks at once, the IoMT is conceptually designed to offload much of the physical and mental burden that warfighters encounter in a combat setting.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Develco Products</span> Danish wireless technology producer

Develco Products is a B2B wireless technology producer, headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark. The company was established in 2007 and develops white label devices for B2C solution providers and has over 3,500,000 devices deployed worldwide... Their main business areas are home care, security, and smart energy. They are a member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance as their main technological expertise lies in Zigbee-based devices that communicate through a mesh network. The company claims their most popular product is the Squid.link gateway.

References

  1. ↑ "OGC SensorThings API Standard Specification" . Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  2. 1 2 "SensorUp is Laser-Focused on Helping Energy Producers Achieve their Zero Methane Emissions Goals". 5G Open Innovation Lab. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  3. 1 2 "Climate Investment leads funding round for SensorUp, industry-leading emissions management platform". Climate Investment. 20 July 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  4. ↑ "SensorUp Raises $12 Million CAD in Series B Round to Combat Methane Emissions". Silicon Valley Journals. Retrieved 2023-12-01.
  5. ↑ "GeoConnections Funding Announcement 2014" . Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  6. ↑ "TecTerra Portfolio Companies" . Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  7. ↑ "OGC Calls for Participation in a Sensor IoT Interoperability Pilot Project for Incident Management Information Sharing (IMIS) (IMIS-IoT)" . Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  8. ↑ "S&T's Internet of Things Pilot Demonstrates 'State of the Practical'" . Retrieved 2016-02-14.
  9. ↑ "Eclipse Whiskers Proposal" . Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  10. ↑ "SensorUp Joins the Esri Startup Programme | SensorUp". www.sensorup.com. Retrieved 2016-07-15.
  11. ↑ "Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with Waspmote and Meshlium - Connect Sensors to the Cloud | Libelium". www.libelium.com. Retrieved 2016-09-21.
  12. ↑ "TEC Edmonton's T-Squared Accelerator Program accepts Internet of Things game changer and e-Commerce pioneer". TEC Edmonton. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  13. ↑ "Smart Cities | SensorUp". Smart Cities. SensorUp Inc. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  14. ↑ "St. Albert Residents Invited to Test Smart City Sensors". City of St. Albert. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  15. ↑ "Taking Science to New Heights: How CloudUAV software helps drones accelerate discovery". www.canarie.ca. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-17.
  16. ↑ "NCI Agency Announces Winners of Third Annual Defence Innovation Challenge". www.ncia.nato.int. Archived from the original on 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  17. ↑ "SensorUp Raises $2M Seed Round to Accelerate Expansion of IoT for Geospatial Platform" . Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  18. ↑ "Plug and Play Winter Startups 2018". None. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  19. ↑ "News Release: DHS Partners with Industry in Houston". Department of Homeland Security. 2018-11-20. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.