One manifestation is precision steerable drilling using real-time microseismic imaging and continuous dataacquisition enabling companies to weave through meandering hydrocarbon-rich seams.
By contrast, conventional monitoring technologies like supervisory control and dataacquisition (SCADA) measure every two to four seconds without precise time synchronization.
At my company, BlueKai, which provides clients data management, analysis and acquisition solutions, we have experienced an uptick in the number of full-time employees from last year.