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Introduction to Connected Assets

SensorUp’s Connected Assets module is the foundation of your emissions management strategy, empowering you to harness the power of unified data for smarter asset management. It provides a comprehensive platform to seamlessly integrate data from diverse sources, customize business logic, visualize critical information, and establish a connected asset registry, ensuring precise analysis and informed decision-making across your entire asset portfolio.
Connected Assets ensures all your emissions-related data—from sensors, remote monitoring, or periodic inspections—is harmonized, enabling precise comparisons, comprehensive trend analysis, and a proactive approach to emissions management.

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The Challenge: Siloed & Underutilized Asset Data

Organizations often struggle with asset and emissions data that is:
  • Fragmented: Data resides in multiple, disconnected systems (SCADA, sensor platforms, inspection tools, spreadsheets).
  • Inconsistent: Different data formats and lack of standardization hinder effective analysis and comparison.
  • Delayed: Field data often lags behind operational needs, causing delays in decision-making.
  • Difficult to Contextualize: Relating disparate data points back to specific assets or operational events can be challenging.

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How Connected Assets Solves This

SensorUp Connected Assets provides a unified solution to:
  • Integrate Multi-Source Data: Bring together data from a wide variety of measurement sources and existing systems.
  • Standardize Information: Harmonize data into a consistent format for accurate comparisons and trend analysis.
  • Build a Connected Asset Registry: Establish a digital twin of your physical assets, including their properties and relationships.
  • Enable Advanced Visualization: Utilize powerful map and time-series views to interpret, correlate, and act on emissions data.
  • Customize Business Logic: Define rules and workflows for managing alerts, events, and data processing.
  • Facilitate No-Code Integrations: Easily connect with other systems in your tech stack for data ingress and egress.

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Core Capabilities of Connected Assets

Connected Assets offers a suite of robust features to transform your raw data into actionable intelligence:

Unified Data Integration & Standardization

Seamlessly bring together and harmonize data from all your relevant sources.
  • Multi-Source Data Ingestion: Connect to various measurement sources including sensors, SCADA systems, OGI reports, flyovers, and manual inspection data.
  • Data Harmonization Engine: Automatically standardizes diverse data formats and units into a consistent structure, enabling accurate comparisons and comprehensive trend analysis.
  • Real-time Data Synchronization: Ensures that field data is aligned with central operations, minimizing delays in decision-making (where source systems support it).
Build and maintain a comprehensive digital representation of your physical assets.
  • Flexible Asset Modeling: Define and manage various asset types such as facilities, sites, wells, pipelines, platforms, and individual equipment components.
  • Asset Hierarchy & Relationships: Establish parent-child and other relationships between assets to accurately model your operational structure and enable contextual analysis.
  • Customizable Asset Attributes: Define and track specific properties and metadata for each asset type relevant to your operations and reporting needs.
Interpret, correlate, and act on emissions data through powerful visual tools.
  • Interactive Map Views: Visualize asset locations, sensor readings, and emission events geographically to understand spatial relationships and identify hotspots.
  • Time Series Analysis: Plot data over time to identify trends, anomalies, and patterns in emissions or operational parameters.
  • Correlated Data Views: Overlay different datastreams (e.g., emissions and operational data) to understand relationships and potential causal factors.
Define and automate responses to specific conditions and events.
  • Rule-Based Event Handling: Configure specific rules and workflows for managing alerts and events, ensuring timely responses aligned with operational goals.
  • Automated Notifications: Set up alerts to notify relevant personnel when predefined thresholds are breached or specific conditions are met.
  • Workflow Triggering: Initiate automated workflows or actions based on incoming data or defined business logic.
Easily connect Connected Assets with your broader technology ecosystem.
  • Intuitive Data Ingress: Configure connections to bring data into Connected Assets from various sources without requiring custom coding.
  • Flexible Data Egress: Share standardized and processed asset and emissions data with other enterprise systems (e.g., ERP, Field Service Management, ESG platforms) using no-code interfaces.

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Conceptual Workflow for Leveraging Connected Assets

The following steps outline a general process for utilizing Connected Assets to manage your emissions data:

1. Define & Build Your Asset Registry

Identify all relevant physical assets. Use the Connected Asset Registry tools to create their digital representations, define types, attributes, and hierarchies within SensorUp.

2. Integrate Data Sources

Connect your various data sources (sensors, SCADA, inspection tools, etc.) using Multi-Source Data Ingestion capabilities, including no-code connectors where applicable. Data is then standardized by the Data Harmonization Engine.

3. Configure Business Logic & Alerts

Define rules for how incoming data should be processed. Set up Customizable Business Logic for alerts, event triggers, and notifications based on thresholds or specific data patterns.

4. Visualize & Analyze Data

Utilize Advanced Visualization Tools (map views, time series charts) to monitor asset performance, analyze emission trends, and correlate different datastreams for deeper insights.

5. Act on Insights & Share Data

Based on analysis and alerts, initiate operational responses or further investigations. Use No-Code Integrations to share enriched and contextualized data with other enterprise systems for broader operational use or reporting.

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Key Benefits of Using Connected Assets

  • Single Source of Truth: Consolidate all asset-related emissions data into one harmonized platform.
  • Enhanced Data Accuracy & Consistency: Standardization eliminates discrepancies from diverse data formats.
  • Improved Decision-Making: Real-time data (where available) and advanced visualizations provide actionable insights.
  • Increased Operational Efficiency: Automated alerts and streamlined data access reduce manual effort.
  • Greater Value from Existing Tech: Seamlessly integrates with and enhances your current technology investments.
  • Proactive Emissions Management: Enables early detection of anomalies and trends for timely intervention.
With Connected Assets, you gain unparalleled control and visibility over your emissions data, transforming it from a complex challenge into a strategic asset.

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Next Steps

To maximize your use of Connected Assets:

Getting Started with Assets

Learn how to set up and manage your asset registry and hierarchies.

Asset Technical Specifications

Detailed documentation on the asset data model and technical specifications.