Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOGB20250627012
- Term of Validity
- 27 June 2025 - 27 June 2026
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- All countries
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General information
- Short Summary
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UK SME with cutting-edge software platforms, Juno and Orkus, leveraging data analytics, AI, and machine learning to optimise pipeline performance, efficiency, and geohazard risk management for the energy and water sectors.
They are seeking partners for commercial agreements with technical assistance to expand market reach and further develop their solutions - Full Description
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A UK-based SME that provides enabling technology solutions to enhance pipeline performance, efficiency, geohazard risk management, and asset management. The company has experience in the energy pipeline sector since 2021 and with a significant overseas water company since 2022. Their aim is to transfer its technology and expertise to the international energy sector.
They specialise in leveraging disparate data sources, including SCADA data, using engineering and physics-based modelling alongside AI and machine learning methodologies where those approaches add value.
Current products/services include two main software platforms:
• Juno: Their network utilisation and efficiency platform that assesses pipeline and plant asset performance to support energy efficiency, asset health monitoring, and predictive maintenance. It combines deterministic reliability with statistical flexibility to develop insightful decision support tools for comprehensive situational awareness for both operations and investment.
This analysis allows pipeline operators to pinpoint potential problems and improve overall system performance, maximising throughput, balancing flow, and highlighting future problems. It also helps to limit energy wastage, supporting regulatory, safety, and net-zero scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions goals.
• Orkus: Their geohazard and asset management platform combines earth sciences and spatial data with engineering expertise for proactive geohazard risk management to protect critical assets and infrastructure.
It was developed in partnership with Thurber Engineering in Canada, a geotechnical and materials engineering consultancy. The platform’s modular and scalable architecture can accommodate large-scale needs and seamlessly interacts with existing industry infrastructure and services like SCADA, telemetry, assessment data, and GIS data. Risk algorithms and workflows are fully flexible to the customers’ needs, and the mobile app has full integration with the desk-based web-app so in-field assessments are completed once.
The platform allows pipeline operators to manage risk assessment at an operational level more efficiently through smarter workflows, and also for senior leaders to manage enterprise risk of pipeline operations and safety. For instance, pipeline operators often have silos of data in spreadsheets, emails and saved locally on PCs and laptops. This platform brings this data together, with historic audit capability, so senior leadership can answer regulatory investigations in the event of a safety or pollution incident on a pipeline. This evidences the operator’s good practice, and reduces the resourcing needed to deal with regulatory investigation.
The company also offers consultancy services where appropriate and where aligned with their customer-led software development needs.
Their revenue model is based on licenced software, likely with an onboarding project for client-led tailoring, with a future transition to SaaS. The intended licensing model is subscription-based, determined by system scale for predictable costs. They also offer framework agreements for mixed delivery of software and consultancy where that suits customer need.
The company envisages a collaborative working relationship where the partner integrates the software into their operations, providing feedback and potentially contributing to technical development through a commercial agreement with technical assistance. - Advantages and Innovations
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• Expertise in leveraging diverse data sources (SCADA, telemetry, third-party data) with AI and machine learning for deep insights.
• Development of Juno for comprehensive situational awareness in performance and energy efficiency, leading to reduced energy use and carbon emissions.
• A system of systems approach to identify efficiencies and gains across a network as well as on individual assets.
• Edge computing capability using Juno for local data processing, improved connectivity, and data security.
Differentiation from competitors in terms of combining data science and engineering-based models to provide insight. As a responsible user of AI and ML, they only use it to provide deeper insight when it is needed. The platform has initial tailoring to the client to ensure it is customer-led.
Future innovations for Juno include predictive maintenance, smart systems maintenance and enhanced edge analysis.
Client partnership with a UK pipeline agency for customer-led innovation in network efficiency and performance.
• Development of Orkus for proactive geohazard and asset management, enabling risk assessment, reporting for compliance, action tracking, and workflow management.
• Seamless integration of Orkus with existing industry infrastructure and legacy platforms.
Differentiation from competitors in terms of flexibility of use and delivery. It is fully customisable and open box, allowing customers to use their own risk algorithms, workflows and forms. There are no restrictive and costly service agreements for data storage. Assets and hazards are mapped in a polygon so assessments are only done once, and more efficiently.
Future innovations for Orkus include incorporating hydrotechnical threats and advanced data science for prediction and enterprise risk management.
• Innovation partnership with a (Canada) engineering company for geotechnical expertise in Orkus. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
- Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
- Goal 13: Climate Action
- IPR status
- Secret know-how
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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The company is seeking industry partners in the energy oil and gas pipeline operations sector (with potential in hydrogen and carbon capture), and water companies, utilities and municipalities. Users within the companies will be operations managers, engineers, risk assessors and senior management who need comprehensive situational awareness and risk management.
Other partners sought are sensor manufacturers and tier 1 suppliers, where they are undertaking digital transformation, and wish to value engineer their hardware or services offering to their customers with insight from analytics.
The experience of these partners is in operations, maintenance and management of large pipelines and networks. They will have come across performance and efficiency issues with their assets and networks, and will want to improve these.
Within the energy sector, partners will also be interested in routing their product most efficiently against criteria of their choosing. They will also want to manage their geohazard and hydrotechnical risks against their asset base.
Within the water sector, partners will be interested in rising main burst prediction, and limiting pollution incidents. They will want to manage their assets, water catchments and drainage systems against hydrotechnical and geohazard risks.
Target sectors
Within the pipeline sector they specifically target complex downstream brownfield and greenfield operations, with capability to support midstream operations.
Within the water sector they target fresh water supply, waste and industrial water, water catchment and drainage.
Partner role
The expected role of the partner would be to engage in pilot, demonstrator, and full client collaborations to utilise Juno and Orkus.
Partners in the energy and water sectors can leverage the company’s platforms to enhance their pipeline performance, efficiency, risk and asset management, contributing to operational improvements and regulatory compliance.
Sensor manufacturers and tier 1s can provide the software to their clients under their own brand, or under the company’s brand.
The desired outcome of the international partnership is to expand the market reach of their software solutions and gain further insights into specific industry needs for ongoing development. - Type and Size of Partner
- SME 50 - 249
- SME <=10
- SME 11-49
- Big company
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 01003025 - Internet of Things
- 01003003 - Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- 01004011 - Maintenance Management System
- 01004016 - Analysis Risk Management
- Market keywords
- 06003008 - Other alternative energy
- 06001007 - Other oil and gas
- 06007001 - Other energy production
- 09008004 - Other utilities and related firms
- Sector Groups Involved
- Digital
- Energy-Intensive Industries
- Maritime Industries and Services
- Targeted countries
- All countries