Towards Real-Time Edge Analytics - A Survey Literature Review of Real-Time Data Acquisition Evolution in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry

Abstract

Edge analytics in the oil and gas industry has become an important topic, especially with the development of Industry 4.0. This paper reviews the existing literature regarding the movement away from traditional data acquisition and towards edge analytics. A meticulous, systematic literature review was conducted in order to understand how the industry would benefit from the implementation of edge analytics. It also aims to discover any advanced technologies belonging to other industries that could be of benefit to oil and gas. The result shows that edge analytics implementation in oil and gas industry has started to build evidence for its successful implementation at the wellsite. Various innovations from other industries may be useful for further enhancement of existing edge analytics or transforming existing data aggregation of data acquisition at the wellsite.

Cloudlet Computing: Recent Advances, Taxonomy, and Challenges

“…Real-time situation awareness is crucial in many city surveillance tasks, but network and video processing can become needlessly bogged down by irrelevant data processing and video monitoring. Traditional non-contextualized video recognition techniques [91] cannot be employed in highly valuable and complex online situations, such as a live city environment [96], compared with a platform that can think proactively to detect, select, and track only relevant video streams in surveillance tasks [104]. In such a platform, only a fraction of the relevant video stream from a massive set of videos will be handled.…”