Precyse Technologies, a leading pioneer of wireless Remote Entity Awareness and Control systems for managing high-value physical assets and personnel, announced today their intrinsically safe certification (Class I, Division 1) for three products in their solution set. This certification is a requirement for systems to operate in many oil, gas, mining and chemical (OGMC) industries or any industry in hazardous classified locations (e.g. where explosion risks or combustibility is a concern). The intrinsically safe Badge xAgent, Asset xAgent, and Micro xBeacon extend Precyse's existing Smart Agent and Beacon product lines which, coupled with Precyse network infrastructure and sophisticated software, aid heavy industries in remotely identifying, locating, monitoring, communicating with and managing people and physical resources such as vehicles, equipment, instruments, and inventory.
"The OGMC industries are looking for a safety and security monitoring solution that is intrinsically safe and cost effective," says Drew Bolton, director of operations at Precyse Technologies. "We designed our solution so industrial companies operating in the most hazardous conditions can quickly deploy a turn-key package that improves worker and environmental safety. Our solution set includes mobile Smart Agents, wireless network infrastructure, and real-time operations, control room, and HES (health, environment and safety) tools to proactively monitor and manage the workplace to assist emergency response efforts. The solution enables users to better coordinate real-time event management, and includes management reporting and analytics that may help improve safety-security compliance and learning. Our customers value our system as an indispensable tool to improve muster event procedures and, of critical importance, help quickly locate and assess the state of missing people. Furthermore, when combined with our system's automated business rules, this increased visibility of and communication with personnel and valuable physical assets, translates into operational efficiencies."
The lightweight Badge xAgent, intelligent devices used in tracking and communicating with people, help safeguard workers' lives by detecting free-falls aka man-down, enabling the worker to call for help with a single press of a button, and reporting the worker's location before and during emergency events. The Badge xAgent provides unique two-way communication between field level workers and control room personnel, complementing the customer's Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for emergencies and business as usual day-to-day operations.
Prior to the Precyse Technologies solution, when an emergency in hazardous areas occurred, the personnel relied on their rigorous training and SOPs. Precyse Technologies' solution set supplements SOPs, adding visibility and communication tools to improve how a company responds to emergencies in hazardous environments. Badge xAgent allow a unique, two-way communication across the entire workforce or individualized to specific people or groups. This communication allows immediate confirmation of the message; can direct or redirect personnel to muster areas; provide additional instructions; confirm a worker's immediate safety or ability to reach a muster point or otherwise safe location; and identify and locate personnel absent from muster points or in harm's way.
About Precyse Technologies
Precyse Technologies is a leading pioneer of wireless Remote Entity Awareness and Control (REAC) systems for remotely managing high-value physical assets and personnel. Their solutions empower enterprises to maintain knowledge and automatically react to the physical, environmental and technical status of their critical physical assets including people, vehicles, equipment, instruments and inventory in real-time, improving visibility and decision making among operations, HES, IT and management. The Precyse solution, using patented assisted GPS (A-GPS) technologies in Smart Agents, provides real-time REAC capabilities for Fortune 500 organizations. They serve the following industries - oil and gas, mining, chemical, energy, and terminal and yard management operations at airports, shipyards and vehicle distribution facilities. Additionally, they service industrial manufacturing and other hazardous and non-hazardous heavy industries.
