Industries
Metallurgy
Operations within the metallurgy industry is influenced by harsh environments, complex processes and strong focus on margins. This puts strong demands towards both maintaining equipment to ensure uptime and optimizing processes to increase yields. Powerful analytics based on transparent methods and a focus on keeping the human in the loop can support the process industry in improving their processes.
Idletechs can assist with:
- Tracking the integrity of furnaces and electrical infrastructure to improve safety and reduce downtime
- Monitoring hydrometallurgical saturation processes to improve product quality and yield
- Extracting key process information from furnaces to improve process control and energy efficiency
- Monitoring product quality of carbon anodes and cast metal products through surface and geometry measurements
- Understanding how process parameters and raw material properties influence the process in terms of product quality, yield, energy efficiency, and emissions
Process industry
Plants in the process industry such as petrochemistry, food & beverage, and pulp & paper all have common issues regarding complex processes, challenges to wear on equipment, and to handle changes in raw material properties that provide issues with product quality. Due to the sheer size of plants and production volume, it is difficult for operators to keep track of all parameters at all times. Powerful analytics based on transparent methods and a focus on keeping the human in the loop can support the process industry in improving their processes.
Idletechs can assist with:
- Monitoring of pipe and pump integrity with thermal camera
- Quality control of end products based on temperature distribution, surface defects, and geometry
- Image and spectral analysis of raw material and end product composition
- Understanding how process parameters and raw material properties influence the process in terms of product quality, yield, energy efficiency, and emissions
Hyperspectral
The use of multichannel sensors such as hyperspectral cameras or spectrophotometers is growing rapidly. These sensors capture enormous amounts of information which must be handled both in terms of sheer amount of data and separating the information into causal phenomena. This is especially challenging in environments with limited bandwidth and processing resources.
Idletechs offers specialized toolboxes for hyperspectral video compression and analysis for use in drones, airplanes or satellites.
Modules are available to include features such as de-shadowing (reconstruction of details in areas with less light), for pixel classification (e.g. looking for known spectra associated with algae bloom), and for ground-based model refinement.
This allows for:
- Better bandwidth utilization
- Prioritization of information according to dynamic criteria
- Adjustable system fidelity for different type of data
- Event-based transmission
- Better image quality
Earth Observation
Idletechs’ CIM-ML can power many types of Earth Observation solutions (Satellites, drone, planes, …). The technology is already being used in satellites.
CIM-ML for Earth Observation can be run on the devices and/or on the ground stations. The high compression rate of hyperspectral images allows more data to be collected. The real-time analysis of the imagery help to make actionable decisions faster.
Key benefits/features:
- Real-time analysis of the imagery (hyperspectral, thermal, …)
- Very small compute requirements e.g. on the devices
- Image alignment on different satellite runs
- Very small training set needed to get started
- The model is continuously updated based on new data
- High compression rate for data on devices, on transmission and on storage