Ep. 026 – Control Room Technology- Scaling the Edge – to 1M Points w/ Joey Philippi - Waterbridge

Ep. 026 – Scaling the Edge – From 10-200K Points w/ Joey Philippi - Waterbridge

Joey Philippi is currently Director of Operational Technology at WaterBridge based in Houston Texas. He brings experience from previous roles at Berkana Resources, EN Engineering and Encana.

Ryan Glover is currently the director of Remote Operations at WaterBridge based in Houston Texas. he brings experience from previous roles held at Apache Corp, Marathon Oil and Oxy.

00:30 Welcome in

01:05 Introduction – Ryan’s 30s commercial

01:30 Joey’s career path and passion for technology

02:00 Texas A&M technology projects

03:00 Joey’s growth in oil and gas SCADA systems integration

05:00 Transforming Wadebridge’s SCADA infrastructure to Scale

07:30 Startin at zero with Ignition – the tools and knowhow you need to succeed

13:00 Aha moment and polling 100s of devices and control at the edge

15:45 MQTT and Report by exception

16:45 Wadebridge’s early hurdles with Ignition

20:30 Building a SCADA HMI – The collaborative approach

22:30 Wadebridge’s Operations

26:50 Enterprise Architecture for Ignition

36:30 Point to point when using MQTT protocol

40:45 Field communications over vast landmasses like the Delaware and Permian

43:45 Leveraging Lorowan to close the gaps

52:30 Future technologies at Waterbridge

57:30 Tips for scaling in Ignition

1:01:30 Closing Remarks