
KISS
Oil & Gas
2U User’s Manual
2.1.
Designed for the Oil and Gas Industry
Today’s opportunities for new drill sites are requiring the oil and gas industry to expand data collection and
analysis efforts. Frontier acreage and challenging geographic installations are needed to meet the ever
increasing demand from emerging and traditional markets. Unconventional sources of gas and oil further
complicate the need to capture data for field use, control and analysis. Often the field and control centers are
subjected to harsh environments.
Kontron has been designing and manufacturing embedded computer systems, subsystems and computer
boards for the extreme needs of the military and industrial use for decades. By utilizing this expertise Kontron
has developed the KISS
Oil & Gas
2U, a rugged rackmount server designed to meet the needs for a tough,
reliable server for the
Oil & Gas
industry. Since Kontron builds the motherboards and the systems, Kontron
has optimized the server for reliability and high MTBF and can offer worldwide technical support. The system
meets shock and vibration considerations, as well as the temperature and dust extremes common to
Oil &
Gas
installations.
All Kontron systems are revision controlled for ease of in field maintenance and since Kontron develops the
motherboard and the system, each system is optimized and capabilities are enabled to meet
Oil & Gas
needs.
Longtime availability of the motherboard and system reduces in-field operational costs and personnel training
as drill sites are expanded. Each system has a front accesible dust filter as well as cable tie-downs, hold-down
brackets and shock mountings to ease transport.
Applications for the KISS
Oil & Gas
2U include:
»
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
»
Control room management
»
Oil & Gas exploration
»
Natural gas processing
»
Wellhead monitoring control
»
Unconventional sources exploration and control
»
Evaluation during implementation of new technology
Kontron also offers custom product development services to the
Oil & Gas
industry for customers needing a
high volume of systems.
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