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How to Improve Frac Tank Monitoring With Automation

Frac tanks are commonly used across the oil and gas industry during hydraulic fracturing, ...

Always the latest and greatest: Using WellAware's over-the-air updates

When was the last time you downloaded an update to your smartphone? Just as we expect our ...

Revolutionizing Data Management: Introducing WellAware Admiral, Commander and Scout!

Same great product, even better names! WellAware is thrilled to unveil the new brand names...

Achieve Immediate ROI with WellAware's Chemical Automation Solutions

WellAware's cutting-edge automation technology and data-driven insights are revolutionizin...

Why Oilfield Water Services Companies Should Automate

As we all know, water is critical for oil and gas well completions. According to the USGS,...

Superior Data at a Lower Cost

Better Data, Better Results®: How WellAware's Automation Platform Transforms Energy and Oi...

The 3 Types of Automation for Oilfield Water Management

It’s a good time to be an oilfield water services company. Oil prices have stabilized abov...

Can I install automation if my site doesn't have cell coverage?

Oilfield automation systems, including things like tank level monitoring and remote pump c...

Oilfield chemicals companies have no choice but to automate

This blog is the final excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022.

Should you buy a submersible or external tank level sensor?

When you invest in tank level monitoring, perhaps the most critical question you have to a...

Oil and gas operators need better chemistry, faster

This blog is the seventh excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, ...

Chemical field services need to become more efficient

This blog is the sixth excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we...

Oilfield chemical services companies must do more with less

This blog is the fifth excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we...

Data sharing becoming more important for oilfield chemical services

This blog is the fourth excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, w...

Oilfield chemicals companies should pay attention to ESG

This blog is the third excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we...

Supply insecurity means slimmer margins for oilfield chemical vendors

This blog is the second excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, w...

Oilfield chemical services companies are dealing with a labor shortage

This blog is the first excerpt from The State of Oilfield Chemicals in 2022. Each week, we...

Freezing temperatures mean lost sales for oil & gas operators

Everywhere you look, signs of the holiday seasons have appeared. Carved pumpkins have rott...

Tips for automating corrosion inhibitors in oil and gas

Corrosion inhibitors may be the single most important chemistry applied in the oil and gas...

How to automate hydrate inhibitor in oil and gas operations

It’s common knowledge in the oilfield that, as the weather turns colder, methanol use ramp...

The best tank level sensor for oilfield chemicals

If your job involves managing oilfield specialty chemicals, no doubt you’ve considered imp...

How to measure water quality in wastewater treatment plant controls

In our last blog post, we gave an overview of the four types of sensors most commonly used...

The 4 Types of Sensors used in Wastewater Treatment Controls

Sensors are the foundation of water treatment control systems. They are what originally co...

How to Monitor and Control Water Transfer Pumps

Water transfer pumps are absolutely essential in the oil and gas, water and wastewater, pe...

Water Treatment Plant Controls: Quick Wins for Wastewater Automation

Water treatment plant controls are used to monitor and control wastewater treatment plants...

How to Calculate (and Improve) Pump Efficiency

Pumps are everywhere and critical to industrial processes involving liquids. They come in ...

What is Pump Control? What You Need to Know About Pump Automation

Pumps are the backbone of numerous industrial processes.

How to Set Up a Frac Tank Level Gauge: 3 Tips for Frac Tank Monitoring

How To Monitor Water Level In a Tank: A Complete Guide

Water tanks are everywhere.

How to Export SCADA Data into Production Software

Production engineers use a number of tools to help them optimize production from oil and g...

How SCADA and IoT Equipment Monitoring Can Work Together

The SCADA versus IoT debate is one of the more heated discussions consuming industrial IT ...

What's the difference between SCADA and IoT?

SCADA vs. IoT. It's a years-old debate, but it most often occurs between industry analysts...

How Are Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measured?

Greenhouse gases (GHG) are continuing to dominate the discussion about climate change and ...

How We Stayed Online During Winter Storm Uri

Last week, Winter Storm Uri brought freezing temperatures, snow, and ice to much of the so...

3 Tips to Improve Underground Injection Control Programs

Injection wells are important in two key ways - they help us dispose of produced water, as...

Why Oil and Gas Companies Should Care About ESG

You’ve heard the whispers. Everyone is talking about sustainability this, ESG that…and wit...

Sustainability: Finding a higher purpose for the Internet of Things

Much has been said about the game-changing potential of IoT technology, especially for ind...

Commercial Air Purifiers Need Fleet Management Technology

In the past, a commercial air filtration system was a luxury that only a minority of busin...

How Much Does Tank Level Monitoring Really Cost?

The cost of a tank level monitoring system is often top of mind for many operations leader...

Why Bluetooth Makes Sense as an Edge IIoT Network

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is completely transforming how most organizations...

Keys to Successfully Installing a Tank Level Monitoring System

Tank level monitoring systems are great for industrial companies that want to mitigate pro...

Three Ways to Take Tank Level Monitoring to the Next Level

In our last blog post, we discussed how remote tank level monitoring (TLM) helps us solve ...

Tank Level Monitoring Can Help Solve These 5 Big Industrial Challenges

We’ve been making fantastic progress in our remote tank level monitoring blog series. Over...

The 5 Industries that Benefit the Most from Tank Level Monitoring

We’ve talked a lot about what remote tank monitoring is and how we implement it through ou...

Here's What You Need to Know About Wireless Tank Level Monitors

What do you get when you combine wireless IoT and tank level monitoring?

What's the Best Tank Level Sensor? Choose for Accuracy and Reliability

If you keep up with tech innovation in the industrial world, you’ve no doubt heard about t...

What is Remote Tank Level Monitoring? How to win with TLM

The goal of any IoT project is to generate trustworthy data that empowers people and proce...

How to Use Chemical Pump Automation to Achieve Regulatory Compliance

Industrial chemicals play an instrumental role in helping organizations achieve both opera...

How Chemical Pump Automation Promotes Better Health and Safety

In the industrial sector, health and safety are paramount. If organizations can’t produce ...

The 3 Reasons Why ARM Architecture Makes Sense for IIoT Devices

This blog was co-authored by David Figoli, WellAware's Chief Technology Officer,

How to Use Chemical Pump Automation to Reduce Operating Costs

In many industrial sectors, companies produce commodity goods with relatively thin margins...

How to Use Chemical Pump Control to Enhance Production Quality in Industrial Operations

Industrial chemicals play an essential role in the quality of the goods that we produce. W...

How The Western Wildfires Are Effecting Indoor Air Quality

How to Use Chemical Pump Automation for Production Assurance

Automated Chemical Production Assurance Industrial specialty chemicals are vital to so man...

How Clean Air Assurance Is Helping Businesses Regain Valuable Foot Traffic

While reopening guidelines differ from city to city, business owners all over the country ...

How to Use Chemical Pump Automation to Ensure Asset Integrity

Should I Upgrade My Air Conditioning or Buy an Air Purifier?

As leaders contemplate building reopenings, there is tremendous pressure to improve the he...

Should I Upgrade My Building to Prevent COVID-19? Or Just Wait it Out?

As businesses, schools, and organizations contemplate reopenings, leaders are under pressu...

What is ACH? Everything You Need to Know about Air Exchange Rate

Right now, everyone is looking at buying air purifiers. The knowledge that COVID-19 can sp...

The Only Way to Secure the IoT is With Zero Trust Architecture

Zero Trust Architecture Cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for leaders all over ...

Do Air Purifiers Work? A Quick Guide to Air Filters and Coronavirus

New research from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicates that COVID-19 can spread t...

When Will We Reopen? Monitoring Can Make It Happen Sooner

The Big Question: "When will we reopen?" Everybody is asking some form of the same questio...

Why the IoT Needs Information-Centric Security Models

IoT Information Security Over the past decade, highly publicized cybersecurity breaches ha...

The Ultimate Guide to IoT Sensors for Industrial Applications

How much will high MERV filters cost your business?

The 4 Reasons That Service Level Agreements Will Change the IoT

What is Zero Touch Provisioning for the IoT?

Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats to Healthcare Facilities Managers

Are Schools Reopening Too Soon? Keep Them Safer with Clean Air

Planning to Reopen? How to Keep Offices Safe During Coronavirus

The 3 Reasons Why You Should Get Rid of Your Hospital BMS

What are Managed Services for the Internet of Things?

Managed Services business models have become much more prevalent over the last few decades...

A Low-Cost Alternative to Keep Healthcare Facilities Safe

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted healthcare organizations on multiple fronts.

How Much Are You Paying Your Systems Integrator??

Systems integrators (SIs) are a recent global phenomenon.

How to Keep Senior Living Centers Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Millions of Americans trust their loved ones to senior care facilities across the country....

Your Remote Monitoring System Is Older Than Your Kids

Updating Remote Monitoring Remote monitoring and control systems consist of many interconn...

Why Building Management Systems Put Your Hospital At Risk

The most important mandate for any hospital is to deliver the best care possible for patie...

Don’t Dismiss What Your Remote Monitoring System is Telling You

Remote Monitoring Data Insights One of the main goals of implementing a remote monitoring ...

Downtime Is Not An Option: Helping Healthcare Facilities Keep Critical Infrastructure Online

Downtime is not an option in healthcare.

The Case for Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) in Industrial IoT

Industrial manufacturers have long struggled to build detailed views of how their plants, ...

Greenfield IoT versus Brownfield IoT - Can you do both?

Large-scale industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments tend to stall out and fail be...

Our Healthcare Industry Has Been There for Us, It's Time for Us to Pay it Back

“The bigger the challenge, the larger the opportunity it presents.”

American Business:  Time to Retool in Preparation for Reopening

As the government begins to rollout early communication on a “phased reopening plan” for t...

Rapid, Incremental Change is the Key to Digital Success

Industrial leaders use the Internet of Things (IoT) to change the way they do business. Th...

Remote Equipment Servicing at the Forefront in 2020

At WellAware, we understand how much value there is in having real-time access to high-res...

Tough Times Call for a Tougher Response

There is no denying that we are in the midst of an incredibly challenging season for U.S. ...

Why Remote Monitoring is Crucial for Employee Health & Safety

Whether in the office or at manufacturing sites and other production facilities, the healt...

The Overlooked Cost of Low Valued Assets

As the Chief Product Officer, I frequently speak with our customers about their business n...

A complex relationship between cybersecurity and productivity

Welcome to the last (but certainly not least) post of our industrial Internet of Things (I...

Industrial data structure should be optimized for search

When it comes to data structure, Google knows a thing or two. The tech giant basically str...

Industrial dashboards are full of unprocessed data

Digital transformation initiatives are full of utopian visions of beautiful dashboards tha...

Remote monitoring systems can misidentify data sources

In our industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data problem series, we’ve arrived at the tric...

Edge compute solves the industrial low-res data problem

Through our data problem series, we’ve covered several data challenges that industrial com...

Data silos isolate valuable data away from industrial teams

In the industrial space, data silos are everywhere. Many industrial companies today still ...

High latency networks are throttling industrial productivity

Another data issue in our series of Industrial IoT data problems is that of Latent Data. H...

Data from SCADA systems is incomplete

Continuing with our data problem blog series, we tackle the topic of incomplete data, anot...

Bad data from remote monitoring leads to bad decisions

Bad data collected by a remote monitoring system can wreak havoc on industrial organizatio...

How to monitor remote assets: Discover Missing Data

One of the biggest data challenges facing industrial companies trying to learn how to moni...

The 10 Data Problems that Plague Industry

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming the world in many ways. Smart devices, machin...

Selecting an industrial monitoring system for compliance

Compliance managers, site superintendents, and engineering technicians are often responsib...

The California Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal has a new name

As a result of new state legislation, Assembly Bill 1057, the division, which oversees and...

Chemical automation for the oil and gas industry doesn't always mean lower costs

Process automation is everywhere in the oil and gas industry. From emergency shutdowns to ...

How to save money on horizontal wells

Optimizing Horizontal Wells Horizontal well drilling accounted for 14% of US natural gas p...

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