How do our S3 systems work?
The key to all our solutions is gaining positive ‘locational awareness’ of personnel.
To obtain this we allocate a unique ID tag to each individual working on an installation.
Tags come in various forms; RFID (passive or active), Ultra Wide Band, GPS, or even our new ‘PassPort™ & CheckPoint™’ technology.
These tags are then monitored by appropriate sensors which report back to a central system to provide ‘positive location awareness’ of each individual or even, where required, ‘track’ their movements in real-time for safety purposes.
As well as being used to know where personnel are, for example to control the maximum ‘Personnel On Board’ an installation, tags can also be used for rapid electronic mustering, access control and security purposes.
Tags can even be used to control permits to work and electronically validate ‘permissions’ allowing only authorised personnel to use specific control systems by automatically granting (or denying) them access subject to permissions allocated on the central database.
Even time and attendance at a given location can be recorded if required. Beyond these more common uses, knowing the location and disposition of all personnel in a crisis can also enable pro-active management of the situation (crisis management).
One example of this would be the solution recently provided for an FPSO which also featured an emergency ‘facility lockdown’ capability (when all personnel were safely inside the vessel) as an anti piracy precaution. We are working with other partners on solutions that, using the knowledge of personnel locations, pro-actively re-route escape routes to avoid hidden dangers for evacuating personnel.
