Industry
Oil & Gas Wireless Engineering
Refineries, plants, and production sites depend on wireless for worker safety, industrial mobility, and process monitoring. We engineer hardened outdoor and hazardous-area designs that survive dust, heat, and demanding physical environments.
Typical wireless failure modes
- Harsh outdoor environments with metal, dust, and extreme temperatures
- Hazardous area classification requiring Class I / Div 2 rated hardware
- Wide-area coverage across tank farms, process units, and control rooms
- Industrial IoT, worker safety, and mobility workflows across large sites
How NetRobin engineers address them
- Predictive Wireless Design for outdoor, industrial, and hazardous areas
- Passive and Active Surveys across process units and outdoor yards
- Spectrum Analysis to identify industrial interference sources
- Validation Surveys for coverage compliance and safety zones
Common engagements in this sector
- Outdoor coverage planning with point-to-point and point-to-multipoint backhaul
- Industrial Mobility for handhelds, tablets, and worker safety devices
- IoT Connectivity for process telemetry and remote monitoring
- Wireless Assessments for aging industrial networks
What the outcome looks like
- Safer, connected field operations across the entire site
- Reliable industrial IoT and telemetry for critical processes
- Coverage compliance for hazardous and outdoor areas
Relevant technical guides
Problems that commonly arise in oil & gas environments
Technical guide
How do I know whether interference is Wi-Fi or non-Wi-Fi, and how do I find it?
Wi-Fi tools see Wi-Fi. Distinguishing contention from non-Wi-Fi energy requires a spectrum analyzer measuring raw RF, not frames.
Technical guide
Why do we have Wi-Fi dead zones, and how are they properly identified?
Real coverage is measured, not predicted. Gaps usually come from unvalidated designs, changed buildings and client transmit power asymmetry.
Technical guide
How do I validate a Wi-Fi design after deployment?
Validation proves the installed network meets documented coverage, capacity, roaming and application criteria — before users find out that it does not.
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