5. Growing Canadian Market
Oil and Gas
• 50% of
Market
Pipelines
• 30% of
Market
Transmission
• 20% of Market
5
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
$975,000,000
$1,121,250,000
$1,289,437,500
$1,482,853,125
$1,705,281,094
6. 6
Innovative Solution
The SmartMat service uses RFID and GPS tracking to lower
access mat costs, improve decisions and reduce liabilities in the
energy construction industry.
8. 8
SmartMat Saves Money
• Lower transportation costs with higher mat
utilization.
• Client can safely own the mat and save
50% on rental costs.
• Lower mat financing costs by de risking
the asset class.
9. 9
SmartMat Lowers Project Risk
• Reduce project liabilities by tracking mats
to eliminate asset abandonment and
reduce cross contamination.
• Improved decision making accomplished
through accurate information available to
all members of the team.
• Accurate inventories with automated
system.
10. 10
Mat Tracking Options – 1 Mat at a time!!
Status Quo
MANUAL
MAT COUNTS
TIME
CONSUMING
Scanner
BAR CODES
HARD TO
READ - MUD
ID Tag
SERIAL #
MANUAL
VERIFY
14. Solution
• Patent pending
process
• Exclusive tag and
antenna designs
• Optimized sensor
communications
• Understand the
reality of the field,
we live it!
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17. 17
Next Steps
• Dominate the mat tracking services market
for all mat owners
• Client instigated RFP module to improve
vendor search
• Expand into international markets
• Capitalize on unique mat database
• Use platform and team to track other
“dark” assets
CHANGED: RFID box to “Other Attempts”. RFID is it’s own slide now (RFID Choices)
Cost: 10% of mat cost ($65) & development costs are high when dealing with hardware
Range: > 5m
Environment: extreme!!! (water, dust, high impact)
Deployment challenges:
Water attenuates in wood more than you think.
Mats get destroyed easily
Few places you can put an antenna and not have it ripped off instantly.
Quick slide to show the crazy environment we trying to use RFID in.
Active not mature or cost effective enough for this application.
LF: cuts through attenuation easier than higher freqs, but not enough range.
HF: not enough range
UHF: meets range requirements, and high data transfer rate (