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Offshore Drilling & SOVs — Safety, Security and Operations

Edge AI built for mobile offshore drilling units, jack-ups, drillships and service operation vessels — surfacing hazards earlier across connectivity-constrained, motion-affected, crew-transfer-heavy environments and giving operators one live view of every rig and vessel.

Service operation vessel and offshore drilling rig perimeter monitoring

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What a drillship or SOV looks like to Fogsphere

Offshore drilling

Edge AI built for MODUs, jack-ups, drillships and SOVs

Offshore drilling units carry a risk profile no fixed platform shares. Helideck and crane operations run over open water, walk-to-work gangway transfers move crews between moving hulls, and moonpool and derrick work continues through heave and roll.

Dynamic positioning adds exclusion zones that shift by the hour, and bandwidth to shore is thin. Fogsphere runs entirely at the edge, correlating every camera on the rig or vessel and escalating only what matters.

Safety

IOGP-aligned safety, offshore drilling reality

MODUs, jack-ups, drillships and SOVs put crews against every IOGP Life-Saving Rule at once — derrick and moonpool work at height, confined-space entry into ballast tanks and voids, energy isolation on drilling packages, and crane and gangway lifts over open water. Fogsphere maps to the IOGP rules and goes further across the drill floor, deck and waterside.

What we cover beyond IOGP: crane swing radius and dropped-object zones on moving decks, lifejacket and PPE compliance in walk-to-work and helideck transfer zones, dynamic-positioning exclusion-zone breaches, and visual gas-leak detection in machinery spaces and mud-processing areas.

IOGP Life-Saving Rules on MODUs, drillships and SOVs

Bypassing Safety Controls
Guards removed on drawworks, top drive or mud pumps; interlocks bypassed
Confined Space
Ballast-tank, void-space and mud-tank entry — attendant presence and unauthorised entry
Driving
Supply-boat approaches, crane-cab and deck-tractor operations on deck
Energy Isolation
Drilling-package isolation, valve-state verification and electrical LOTO
Hot Work
Hot work in machinery spaces and on deck, fire-watch attendance, ignition sources near vents
Line of Fire
Pipe handling and tripping on the drill floor, riser-tension lines, crane pendulum zones
Safe Mechanical Lifting
Crane lifts over water, banksman presence, supply-boat and gangway cargo transfer
Work Authorization
Permit-to-work for any high-risk drilling or vessel activity verified against zone presence
Working at Height
Derrick and monkey-board access, harness/lanyard compliance, moonpool edge work

Aligned with the IOGP Life-Saving Rules. Fogsphere is not affiliated with IOGP; icons are illustrative.

Offshore drilling and SOV hazards beyond IOGP

People Safety on Deck & Drill Floor
  • PPE & lifejacket compliance on the drill floor and in walk-to-work transfer zones
  • Behavioural safety (phone use, smoking, running)
  • Ergonomics on repetitive operations
  • Fall and overboard detection at moonpool, derrick and deck edges
Cranes, Pipe Handling & Equipment
  • Machine restricted zones around iron roughneck, tongs and top drive
  • Crane swing radius enforcement
  • Line-of-fire under suspended loads and during tripping
  • Deck-tractor and pedestrian separation in pipe-handling areas
Area Controls & Security
  • Restricted-area enforcement at moonpool, drill floor and DP control rooms
  • Credentialed access at gangways, boat landings and helideck
  • Open/closed door and hatch status on ballast tanks and voids
  • Clean pedestrian paths and escape routes on decks
Emergency Management
  • Smoke & fire detection in machinery spaces and living quarters
  • Worker-down detection across decks and the drill floor
  • Automatic headcount at muster stations vs POB list
  • Helideck and gangway approach blockage and clearance verification
Security

Offshore drilling and vessel security

A MODU or SOV is a moving, crew-transfer-heavy asset with an open waterside boundary, rotating third-party personnel and no guard force. Fogsphere surfaces these events on the cameras already installed, at the edge, without a link to shore.

01

Waterside & approach monitoring

Detects small-craft approach, unidentified vessel proximity and standoff-distance breaches around the rig or SOV, correlating radar-blind visual bearings so the bridge sees an approach before it closes.

02

Restricted-area & muster-point monitoring

Flags presence in restricted deck zones, hazardous-area boundaries and muster points outside declared activity windows, so control-room operators see who is where without walking the deck.

03

Crew transfer & gangway access control

Verifies walk-to-work gangway and basket transfers against the crew manifest, surfacing unaccounted movements and giving the OIM a live personnel-accountability picture across both hulls.

04

Helideck access & clearance verification

Detects personnel and objects inside the helideck perimeter during approach and departure windows, and flags clearance state so flight-following and the HLO share the same view.

05

Boat-landing & swing-rope transfer monitoring

Surfaces transfers at boat landings and swing-rope points, detecting unattended personnel, missing lifejackets and transfers outside authorised sea-state and daylight windows.

06

Moonpool, derrick & drill-floor zone access

Correlates role and permit state against presence in moonpool, derrick and drill-floor red zones, flagging entries by personnel without a matching authorisation.

07

Surveillance integrity & camera tampering

Detects lens obstruction, defocus, repositioning, spray and signal loss across the camera estate and raises a tamper event, so gaps in coverage are surfaced rather than discovered later.

08

Critical equipment, OT & comms tampering

Flags unauthorised interaction with drilling-package cabinets, DP consoles, satellite and radio equipment, and marine switchgear, with a timestamped visual record of who approached.

09

Unattended object detection

Detects bags, containers and equipment left in sensitive deck zones, machinery spaces and escape routes, and correlates them back to the person who placed them.

10

Multi-camera reconstruction & evidence

Reconstructs any incident across every camera on the rig or vessel, with appearance search and export-ready, auditable evidence packs for investigation and class or flag-state review.

Operational intelligence

Offshore drilling operations

Fogsphere runs offline on the rig or vessel, giving the OIM, the driller and the onshore ops centre the same live view of drilling activity, deck logistics and crew movement — even when bandwidth to shore is intermittent.

Crane & lifting-cycle monitoring

Times every lift from hook-up to set-down, flagging idle hook time, repeated re-rigs and lifts held for sea state, so the deck crew and shore team see where cycle time actually goes.

Deck congestion & laydown utilisation

Measures occupancy across pipe decks and laydown areas, surfacing congestion that slows backloading and showing which zones sit unused across a rotation.

Pipe handling & tripping activity

Tracks stands racked, tripping speed and connection times from the drill floor camera, giving the driller and town an objective record without additional instrumentation.

Mud system & shaker-area monitoring

Detects shaker screen blinding, overflow and spill on the mud-processing deck, and correlates activity with solids-control manning.

POB counting & muster verification

Reconciles automatic headcount at muster stations against the POB list, flagging late and missing persons and reporting muster-completion times per drill.

Helideck turnaround timing

Times helideck cycles from approach to clear, capturing deck-clear delays and refuelling holds that push flights outside their slot.

Supply-boat arrival, departure & cargo transfer

Logs supply-boat alongside and off time, verifies container and basket transfers against the manifest, and flags backload left on deck.

Walkway & escape-route obstruction

Detects obstructions on walkways, stairwells and escape routes across decks and machinery spaces, and flags them for the housekeeping round.

PPE compliance on deck

Correlates PPE state — helmet, coverall, lifejacket, eye and hand protection — against the zone a person is standing in, and reports compliance by area and by shift.

Dropped-object zone monitoring

Flags presence beneath suspended loads, derrick work and overside lifts, and detects objects falling into designated dropped-object zones.

Equipment idle time & utilisation

Builds utilisation profiles for cranes, deck machinery and handling equipment from visual activity, showing where capacity is stranded across a rotation.

Weather-related deck-hazard detection

Detects standing water, ice, spray and unsecured items on deck as conditions change, and surfaces them before the next watch takes over.

Across the oil & gas estate

Six focus areas

Land drilling rig with drill-floor and wellpad operations

Onshore Drilling

Land rigs, wellpads, access roads and contractor traffic.

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Service operation vessel and rig perimeter monitoring

Offshore Drilling & SOVs

MODUs, jack-ups, drillships and service operation vessels.

Offshore oil platform with workers in PPE and crane operations

Offshore Platforms

Fixed and floating production platforms, helidecks, lifeboats.

Gas station forecourt with vehicles at the pumps

Gas Stations

Forecourts, dispensers, customer flow, queues.

Oil refinery with process units, flare stacks and pipework

Refineries

Process units, flare stacks, control rooms, racks.

Construction workers in PPE on an oil and gas construction site

Construction

Wellpad, pipeline and facility build operations.

Architecture

The platform behind every detection

Edge+ AI Stack — runs on-prem at every site. CNN and VLM GPUs, MistIQ® physical AI workers, TPM® encryption, DeepStream engine and the Edge+ agent — all inside your perimeter.

Fogsphere Manager® Stack — fleet orchestration across every rig and vessel: Case Manager®, Insight Studio®, Person Manager®, Asset Manager® and Vision Agent®.

Core Services — vector DB engine, SQL DB engine, distributed storage controller and Kubernetes multi-node cluster, with central GPU pools — all in your datacentre or private cloud.

Fogsphere Edge+ AI server, on-prem deployment unit

Edge+ AI

Fogsphere Manager server, datacentre orchestration unit

Manager

Fogsphere MistIQ server, physical AI compute unit

MistIQ®
An offshore drilling case study at scale: 180 cameras · 4 MODUs and 2 SOVs · 900 POB across rotations · 12 NVIDIA GPUs across 6 edge nodes · up to 13 use cases per camera · satellite-tolerant with on-premise VLM fine-tuning.

What the Fogsphere platform brings

Edge AI, GDPR-by-design, digital twins, real-time reports, asset management and more — all inside one platform, deployed on your perimeter.

Fogsphere capabilities at a glance: edge AI, GDPR-by-design, digital twins, real-time reports, asset management and more

Why oil & gas leaders choose Fogsphere

Cross-cutting benefits

Enhanced Safety Management

Real-time monitoring and proactive identification of hazards surface workplace hazards earlier so teams can act on them.

Operational Efficiency

Automated monitoring and alerts enable faster response, reducing downtime and lifting overall productivity.

Data-Driven Decisions

Accumulated visual and sensor data is analyzed for insights that inform safety protocols and process improvements.

Compliance Assurance

Supports adherence to industry safety standards, reducing the risk of legal and regulatory penalties.

Cost Reduction

Minimizes accident-related medical, legal and insurance costs across the operation.

Risk Mitigation

Continuous monitoring of safety hazards reduces the risk of major incidents and reduces exposure to asset and reputational loss.

Regulatory Compliance

Adherence to HSE regulations is built in — avoiding fines and legal challenges in high-risk environments.

Workforce Morale

A safe working environment boosts employee morale and retention — workers feel valued and protected.

Insurance Optimization

A proven safety record can lead to lower insurance premiums thanks to demonstrably reduced risk.

Applications you’ll use

Application clusters behind this focus area

PPE & Personal Compliance

Helmet, vest, gloves, eyewear, hearing and respiratory protection, checked per worker per zone.

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Work at Height & Line of Fire

Edges, openings, scaffolds, suspended loads and dropped-object zones.

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Emergency & Incident Response

Fire, smoke, worker-down and evacuation-route readiness.

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Occupancy, Counting & Flow

Headcount, crowding, queues, dwell and movement patterns.

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