Technology giants Microsoft and Halliburton, both headquartered in the USA, have announced plans to enter into a strategic alliance to drive digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. The new collaboration will see staff from both companies leverage Microsoft technologies in fields such as the Industrial Internet of Things, machine learning and augmented reality.
Through the collaboration, the companies will be able to apply voice and image recognition, video processing and AR/Virtual Reality to create a digital representation of a physical asset using Microsoft’s HoloLens and Surface devices. Additionally, Microsoft and Halliburton will utilize digital representation for oil wells and pumps at the IoT edge using the Landmark Field Appliance V2 and Azure Stack.