Unrivalled Red Zone Monitoring
Protect your crew with our world-class Red Zone monitoring solutions
Red Zones — the high-risk areas where crews work alongside heavy machinery and robotics — are amongst the most hazardous and challenging environments on any drilling platform.
Effective monitoring and control of these zones is no longer optional, it is essential for crew safety and operational efficiency.
Salunda’s modular Red Zone Monitoring solutions are proven on 40+ assets worldwide to deliver the highest level of protection for all use cases.
Tailored solutions for optimum performance
Combining advanced wireless and optical technologies, Salunda Red Zone Monitoring (RZM) offers customised solutions, from small-scale applications to complex offshore drilling operations. The highest protection is achieved through the combined use of Crew Hawk® (wireless) and HaloGuard® (optical) – but customers can start with either system and scale up as requirements grow.
All Salunda RZM solutions include equipment integration and advanced analytics which continually collects data, and delivers heatmaps, zone violation trends, playback, and performance insights — helping customers identify risk patterns, guide coaching, and enhance training and toolbox talks.
Optical / AI
Sensor / Wireless
Integration
Advanced Analytics
IECEx, ATEX, MET and INMETRO Certified for Zone 1
Choose Salunda Red Zone monitoring
Salunda’s core Red Zone monitoring solutions — Crew Hawk and HaloGuard — offer unique features and unrivalled capability, which can be tailored to your exact requirements.
Used stand-alone or in combination, they deliver the highest level of protection for all use-cases. The ideal choice will depend on your specific requirement, our experts are ready to guide you to the perfect fit.
HaloGuard leverages optical ranging cameras and AI machine vision technology to precisely track personnel in monitored areas, reducing risk exposure to as low as practically possible.
HaloGuard does not require the use of wearables.
Integrating High Definition and Time of Flight cameras into a single Orb delivers unmatched accuracy and reliability under all conditions.
Crew Hawk employs advanced radio frequency technology to track the location of crew and equipment within designated areas.
Wearable devices identify roles, manage authorized or restricted access, and issue instant personal alerts during zone breaches.
Simultaneously, the area authority will receive an alarm for any zone breach.
Both solutions allows users to establish perimeters (geo-fenced digital barriers) to secure high-risk zones, restricting access to essential personnel only. Static zones can be set around hazardous areas and pre-configured for various drilling operations. For dynamic scenarios, virtual zones can be created around energised equipment, alerting crew members in the ‘line of fire’ to prevent escalations.
Salunda Red Zone Monitoring solutions seamlessly integrate with equipment to prevent ‘line of fire’ incidents. Hardware integrations detect energized equipment and trigger instant alerts for at risk personnel. Software integrations stream equipment status and position to generate fully dynamic zones. Automated equipment pause and stop sequences can be initiated, enhancing crew safety and minimising downtime.
Features and capability
Proven to enhance operational oversight and situational awareness for all applications, Salunda Red Zone monitoring solutions boost crew safety and operational efficiency.
Crew Monitoring
Crew location is precisely monitored using Wireless and Optical AI machine vision technology. The combination of multiple technologies delivers the highest accuracy and reliability under all situational and operating conditions.
Alerts and Notifications
Crew are instantly alerted when entering exclusion zones or in proximity to moving or energized equipment. The area authority has a continual view of all crew within the monitored area, and is notified in real-time of all zone violations and safety breaches.
Static and Dynamic Zones
Digital barriers are established around fixed high-risk areas and moving or energized equipment. Unauthorized zone breaches and potential ‘line of fire’ detections result in crew alerts and area authority notifications.
Data Analytics
Analytic dasboards collect data and present zone violation trends, heatmaps and other actionable information for review. This information can be used for coaching management, training and tool-box talks to promote and monitor safer behavior and improved efficiency.
Key benefits and use cases
Salunda’s Red Zone Monitoring solutions are proven to boost safety and operational efficiency across 40+ assets globally, from intervention vessels to dual-activity drillships.
Minimise Red Zone Exposure
Effective risk mitigation requires strict control over Red Zone access.
Salunda RZM solutions provide precise, customisable access management based on personnel count, specific job roles, or a combination of both, pre-configured and tailored to each operation. Compliance with complex ‘Job By Design’ procedures can be effectively monitored, and consistently enforced.
Improve Situational Awareness
Salunda RZM solutions deliver personal alerts, rig-wide alarms, and instant notifications to the area authority to heighten situational awareness for all personnel in the monitored zone.
Our Hawk Analytics platform continually collects data and delivers heatmaps, zone violation trends, playback, and performance insights, helping customers identify risk patterns, guide coaching, and enhance training and toolbox talks.
Increase Operational Oversight
Salunda Red Zone monitoring solutions provide the area authority with real-time visibility of the location of all personnel within the monitored zone.
Hawk Analytics dashboards provide critical zone violation metrics, historical trends, heatmaps and other actionable insights, significantly enhancing safety performance, operational efficiency, and risk management.
Prevent ‘Line of Fire’ Incidents
‘Line of fire’ incidents are a primary cause of injuries and fatalities on drilling platforms. Salunda Red Zone monitoring helps prevent these incidents.
Personnel in the ‘line of fire’ of moving or energized equipment receive instant personal alerts, prompting rapid response, while the area authority is simultaneously notified. If needed, equipment can be automatically paused or stopped to prevent incident escalation.
Reduce Cost
Salunda Red Zone monitoring solutions are rapid to set-up, and proven to have a low maintenance burden with minimal maintenance or routine calibration requirements.
HaloGuard Orbs are positioned optimally, avoiding the limitations of 2D-only systems which require numerous downward-facing cameras to maintain accuracy. Minimal units are required, simplifying installation, shortening cable runs, and ease of maintenance, whilst maintaining reliable, precise performance.
Reliable Performance
Salunda Red Zone monitoring solutions utilize advanced radio frequency and optical AI machine vision tracking technologies for precise, reliable performance.
HaloGuard Orbs integrate High-Definition and Time-of-Flight cameras to deliver accurate, real-time crew positioning in 3D (not inferred from 2D) and are unaffected by uneven floors, partially obscured crew, or other common situational factors that can cause false alarms.
How Salunda Red Zone monitoring works
Salunda Red Zone monitoring solutions combine automated zone access control and drill floor equipment integration to minimize crew exposure to the red zone to as low as practically possible and prevent “line of fire” events.
Our solutions accurately track the location of individuals and equipment in real-time. Customizable exclusion zones — digitally geo-fenced barriers — are established around hazardous areas and energized machinery, and tailored to specific operations.
Upon unauthorized entry into these exclusion zones, our solutions instantly alert the ‘at-risk’ crew member, and simultaneously notifies the area authority. Our solutions can also be configured to automatically pause and stop energised or moving equipment when personnel are detected in the ‘line of fire’.
By streaming data to our Hawk Analytics platform, our solutions promote safer crew behaviour and operational efficiency, significantly reducing lost time incidents (LTI) and non-productive time (NPT). An intuitive series of dashboards provide heatmaps and zone violation trends, enabling effective coaching, management, training, and toolbox talks. This actively promotes safer working practices and risk mitigation in the most challenging environments.
What our customers say
“This deployment once again showcases Transocean’s ability to develop and advance innovation within offshore drilling. We believe HaloGuard℠ will be a differentiating safety system that others will want to utilize within our industry and potentially within other industries as well.”
Jeremy Thigpen
President & CEO
“Congratulations to everyone involved in the project. The HSE inspector shared how impressed he was by the system [Crew Hawk] and how it was changing people’s minds about red zone management for the better.”
Tom Fuller
VP Wells, North Sea and Asia Pacific
“This is a transformational decision that will protect our workforce and the crews of contractors on the Transocean Endurance and support our work. HaloGuard is best in class and my hope is that it becomes the standard of safety on rigs going forward.”
Josie Fourie
Head of D&C, Australia
“The crew adopted wearing the PLs and engaged with the technology easily, knowing the system is there to keep them safe. Collecting data and behavioural trends helps us determine our red zone vulnerabilities and adjust our equipment and the crew involved during operations, and also improve on our ability to eliminate risk in the future.”
Mike Smith
Wells Superintendent
Since deployment of Crew Hawk we have been working collectively to optimize for overall effectiveness – we have structured the red zones to be in alignment with pre-determined “Job by Design” processes, and this step coupled with Intellilift deployment enables more precise dynamic red zones based on specific operations to be implemented. The Red Zone violation data gathered enables the team to understand how work is being performed and where there is opportunity to improve which supports precise execution.”
Kelby Ladner
In-country Manager, Guyana
Unified IIoT platform
Salunda’s patented Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solution is embodied in The Hawk Platform.
Utilizing this proprietary, low-latency network across the globe, Salunda’s suite of monitoring solutions, along with third-party devices, leverages advanced technology for enhanced connectivity and efficiency.
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