Event Recap: Digital C3 featuring BlueMarvel

CRIN was pleased to host a Digital C3 (Collaboration, Conversation, Connection) event on November 27^th focused on BlueMarvel AI and the services it offers. Nannette Ho-Covernton, Sustainability Leader at Spartan Controls, hosted this conversation with James Inglis, software engineer and Director of Business Development with BlueMarvel.

Inglis explained that BlueMarvel is focused on three core pillars: safety and risk management, industrial optimization, and energy and emissions.

“The really interesting piece of BlueMarvel is that those three traditionally siloed data sets, we pull together with what we call cross-product intelligence, so it's all one platform, and so we can identify an energy efficiency or emissions upset, and drill right down to, say, the sticky valve is leading to your boiler inefficiency,” explained Inglis.

“And so that's the big problem that we're focused on, is pulling that data that's usually either stranded at the edge or stranded in some SME’s Excel sheet and bringing it to an enterprise view so we can analyze it and view it at a level where we can make real impacts.”

Being able to integrate with any automation system to pull that data out, provide the context, and have the understanding to extract the value from it is what makes BlueMarvel unique, Inglis added.

“So, understanding the industry and the data well enough to walk our customers through those more fundamental steps and provide value, and then get them to the AI piece while wiring them up for the long term to manage that data,” Inglis said.

The BlueMarvel Energy platform is focused on energy management systems to support energy efficiency goals. It is built around the ISO 50001 energy management standard and provides a framework to manage energy and other consumable resources across one or more industrial operations.

The BlueMarvel Carbon platform has two focuses: enterprise carbon intensity and automating and streamlining the generation of environmental attributes.

Inglis noted BlueMarvel has been “inundated” with requests to look at the Carbon platform following new legislation around environmental reporting requirements.

Through the implementation of both platforms, the exciting part is what customers can do once the reporting and verification are in place.

“The more data we get, the more powerful this all becomes,” he said.

Inglis said in addition to operating in Canada, BlueMarvel is currently deploying a pilot project at an oilfield in Iraq and is getting significant traction in California. Some new markets it is starting to expand into include hydrogen and carbon sequestration.