Detechtion acquires CYBERWAVE
Calgary-based Detechtion Technologies, a leader in compressor fleet management and optimization solutions, has acquired CyberWAVE Technologies, an IT consulting company that specializes in helping clients automate processes and maximize their reach with Internet technologies.
The two company presidents, Brian Taylor of Detechtion and Eric Sit of CyberWAVE, have been friends since attending Winston Churchill High School and Sit has served as a consultant director of information technology to Detechtion for the past 13 years.
Detechtion was founded by Brian’s father Alan in 1998. An engineer, he had worked for 30 years in the natural gas industry working with reciprocating compressors and felt the analysis tools commonly used in the industry were overly simplistic and did not accurately reflect real-world field operating conditions.
He created Detechtion to provide a solution to those problems and the realization of significant production benefits for clients led to rapid growth and expansion into the United States and the establishment of an office in Australia. The company’s client list includes businesses in the U.K., Brazil, West Africa, Singapore and Norway.
CyberWAVE’s focus on software development led Sit to create Enalysis, a unique, web-enabled system that analyzes actual compressor operating conditions.
Initially, static data on the compressors is set up in the secure database then field data is submitted from each compressor site. The Enalysis program rationalizes the data, incorporates it into a user accessible fleet-management database and produces a diagnostic report.
Eight of North America’s top 10 independent gas producers are Detechtion clients and the company, through its courses, has successfully trained more than 3,000 operators, mechanics, foremen, super- intendents and engineers, providing them the tools to deliver higher levels of compressor performance and profitability.
As a result of the acquisition, Sit will serve as Detechtion’s chief technology officer and will relocate his staff into the company’s downtown office.
His 1,400 square foot CyberWAVE building, located just east of 10th Street along 16th Avenue N.W., is available for lease.
Besides his work for Detechtion, Sit built up a very successful business with a number of other technology-driven divisions; web development, inventory software and hosting that have been passed on to affiliates. He has moved the processing of event photography into a new company called Photo Ops.
After seeing the problems of handling visitors to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo he developed a system that will allow the processing of 2,000 photos per hour, meaning people making appointments to have their picture taken with the stars don’t have to wait for a length of time for their prints.
Through Photo Ops they can pre-purchase an appointment online, have their photograph taken and within a minute have their print while at the same time a copy has been sent to their email address.
It will take many staff and volunteers to handle online and on-site sales, security, high-end cameras, 35 com- puters and 21 professional photo printers to manage the more than 70,000 visitors at the Calgary show which takes place at the Stampede grounds April 26 to 28.
That has to be one of the largest indoor events in the city and with names like Carrie Fisher, John RhysDavies, Gillian Anderson and Linda Hamilton scheduled to attend.
Photo Ops is the only system of its kind in North America capable of the speed to handle large volumes. Sit’s company will be working similar shows in Vancouver, Edmonton, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and Portland and has already been contracted to manage the photo shoots at other U.S. events in 2014.
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