''What we’re talking about is delivering a degree of collaboration and visibility unheard of in the oil and gas industry,” says Doug Weber, business manager, remote application monitoring for Rockwell Automation. “With sensors, software and the cloud, these disparate assets can become part of a Connected Enterprise, powered at its core by a rich flow of data.”

Founded in 1903 with a line of machine controllers, today Rockwell Automation is using Microsoft’s IoT services to extend its business and provide managed monitoring and support for its products in the field. The company has put years of research into developing cloud-based solutions, using software, sensors and devices to predict equipment failures along the supply chain, track its performance in real time, and help refine designs and processes to prevent those failures in the future.

Whether it’s on a drilling platform at sea, the filling station on the corner, or any of the thousands of miles in between, the company is not only ensuring equipment operates as it should but is building its own reservoir of data and drilling into new forms of value it never anticipated.''

http://blogs.microsoft.com/iot/2014/12/04/fueling-the-oil-and-gas-industry-with-iot/

http://news.microsoft.com/apac/2015/01/30/microsofts-technology-predictions-for-2015-iot-matures-cyber-security-bulks-up-and-mobile-gains-ground/

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