Equinor Challenge: Acoustic Detection of Industrial Equipment Anomalies – NewsEverything Technology

Equinor is seeking to gain a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art of technologies for automated acoustic monitoring, detection, and identification of abnormal conditions or behavior of equipment in industrial and production process settings.

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Submissions are welcome from companies, groups, and individuals who can supply solutions and/or products at certain maturation level which allows fast implementation. Equinor also welcomes submissions from Solvers who can provide system designs and/or those who can make them aware of companies, products, and/or technologies they do not already know about that meet the Challenge requirements.

This is an electronic Request-for-Partners (eRFP) Challenge; Solvers seeking a partnership will submit a written proposal to be evaluated by the Seeker to form a collaborative partnership. Solvers not seeking a partnership should submit a written proposal to be evaluated by the Seeker for the potential to receive a finder’s fee for the information provided.

Overview

Industrial processes and machines are noisy particularly in offshore platforms . However, in the apparent noise, information reveals the acoustic characteristics of a particular machine, valve, pipe segment, etc.

Humans are particularly good at detecting deviations in these characteristics and identifying their source, but this requires personnel always to be present and listen.

Equinor, the Seeker for this Challenge, wishes to understand the current landscape of available technologies for the automated acoustic monitoring, detection, and identification of abnormal noise, conditions, or equipment behavior in industrial and production process settings.

Submissions to this Challenge must be received by 11:59 PM (US Eastern Time) on 13 Mar 2023.

Source: InnoCentive