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c o m m u n i c a t i o n s Lucinda Grande Bold & Myriad Pro Condensed www.lora-alliance.org A DIGITAL REVOLUTION FOR OIL & GAS FROM SCADA TO INDUSTRIAL IOT Realtime data & analytics – example of Webee dashboard for Yokogawa's Sushi Sensor collected, managed, then effectively visualized and distributed to complementary products such as ERPs and third-party APIs. Webee's flexible, no-code Visual Designer toolset allows users to receive real-time alerts and actionable insights while extracting behaviors within consolidated historical data at any given time. LoRaWAN helps streamline an IIoT deployment process by penetrating data silos to normalize, process and analyze in real time. Because O&G firms often have data at the edge, the protocol is essential for collecting and normalizing data for processing. Some LoRaWAN suppliers have also developed multiprotocol gateways to connect LoRaWAN with other communication technologies. RECOMMENDATIONS Recent economic and global health factors have made the use cases around LoRaWAN technology critical for O&G firms – not just a «nice to have» option. With the LoRaWAN market expected to experience a 43% com- pound annual growth rate through 2025 to reach nearly 1.1 billion connections, the technology is ideal for massive scale rollouts¹. In addition to power efficiency, the long range and star topology are distinguishing features of LoRaWAN from other connectivity options. LoRaWAN can be deployed for less than one fifth or as little as a tenth of an instrumental budget, making it a low-risk, high-gain proposition. Additionally, automating processes mitigates the risk of human error. O&G companies must continue to challenge past assump- tions in order to be able to unlock the full potential that digital transformation of assets, processes and decarbo- nization targets can bring to their business. This means moving outside of established SCADA and Process Control Network architectures, to using open, standards-based technologies with a broad ecosystem of vendors that can be interconnected and are increasingly interoperable. The versatility and agility of LoRaWAN is revolutionizing established approaches to data capture that cost effectively connects stranded and underserved assets, unlocks silos and decouples devices from applications. With a simple to deploy and manage Industrial IoT archi- tecture in green-field deployments, sensors are connected to LoRaWAN networks that are integrated to on-prem or cloud data management platforms. Ideal for new oil fields and use cases like monitoring door-opening sensors, valve positioning, and even if emergency showers are being used after exposure of personnel to a hazardous substance. LoRaWAN can integrate into existing, often isolated, SCADA and control systems by brokering data directly into the application layer, thereby bypassing many of the complex Purdue models layers, ideal for quickly accessing data from low consequence data coming from things like tank lids or flow sensors. LoRaWAN offers the opportunity to meet and exceed environmental and governance targets using the technology to automate monitoring such as continuous methane emissions with a full audit trail to achieve decarbo- nization targets. The LoRaWAN device and infrastructure ecosystem is now reaching a tipping point where vendors are responding to demands by operators to connect their assets in hazardous environments by utilizing the long-range propagation and high noise-immunity characteristics of LoRaWAN into hazardous locations and certifying LoRaWAN equipment for such deployments, opening up further applications within refineries and other hazardous locations. To learn more about certifying your device, please visit our Certification page. For information and content on LoRaWAN for Smart Industry, please visit our Smart Industry page. This white paper is the result of a fruitful collaboration between members of the Smart Industry Work Group of the LoRa Alliance. With special thanks to: ¹ IoT Analytics; LPWAN Market Report 2020-2025 – Excerpt LoRa Alliance ® and LoRaWAN ® are registered trademarks. Used with permission. ©2020 LoRa Alliance ® The LoRa Mark is a trademark of Semtech Corporation or its subsidiaries.

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