INDUSTRIAL INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM  ·  HOUSTON, TX
Industrial Intelligence for Process Data

Your AI is Only as
Good as Your Sensor Data.

VALID8A.AI delivers real-time validation and contextualisation of process sensor data — so real-time advisory, optimisation, and AI applications in Oil & Gas, Refining, and Chemicals run on inputs you can actually trust.

LIVE CRUDE_UNIT_3 · FEED_TI_004
FEED_TI_004 · °C 347.2 VALIDATED
REACTOR_PT_112 · barg 28.4 VALIDATED
DISTILL_FT_087 · m³/h 163.9 DRIFT FLAG
COMP_VT_021 · mm/s 11.2 VALIDATED
Standards Alignment
ISA-95 OPC-UA ISO 14224
// At Plant Scale

Engineered for the
harshest data environments on earth.

Continuous validation across the operating envelope — from a single compressor station to a fully-integrated downstream complex. Built to keep up with millions of tag updates per minute without dropping a single audit record.

Target Industries

Built for the most critical
process operations.

Designed alongside process and automation engineers who know that bad sensor data kills industrial automation and AI projects before they start.

Oil & Gas

Upstream and midstream sensor validation across wellheads, pipelines, compressor stations, and SCADA networks operating in remote and intermittent-comms environments.

WELLHEAD SCADAPIPELINECOMPRESSION

Refining

Continuous validation of asset- and unit-level instrumentation across integrated facilities and plant sites.

CDU / VDUHYDROCRACKUTILITIES

Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Batch and continuous process data integrity for reactors, separators, polymerization trains, utility systems, and on-line analyzer networks.

REACTORSPOLYMERANALYZERS
Platform Capabilities

End-to-end validation
at industrial scale.

Five engineered subsystems that turn raw plant tag streams into a certified, AI-ready data product — with full audit trail.

01

Sensor Health Scoring

Continuous instrument health assessment using statistical process control, range checks, rate-of-change limits, and cross-tag validation — flagging degraded or failed sensors before they corrupt downstream inputs.

SPC · CUSUM · EWMA
02

Process Context Tagging

Enriches raw tag data with process unit, equipment class, operating mode, and alarm-state metadata — so downstream applications can distinguish meaningful process variation from instrumentation noise.

ISO 14224 Taxonomy
03

Historian & DCS Integration

Native connectors for OSIsoft PI, AspenTech IP.21, Honeywell PHD, and leading DCS platforms. OPC-UA and PROFIBUS protocol support built-in.

OPC-UA · REST · MQTT
04

Validation Audit Trail

Immutable, timestamped log of every validation decision with confidence scores and analyst override tracking — essential for governance, reliability reviews, and regulatory compliance.

Immutable · Tamper-proof
05

Sensor Priority Awareness

Every tag carries an inherited priority — driven by the equipment and the unit operation it serves. Safety-critical, control-critical, KPI-critical, and advisory instruments each get their own validation profile: tighter thresholds, faster escalation paths, and richer audit context for the tags that matter most to the process.

Equipment-Driven Hierarchy
Workflow

From raw plant tags to
trusted AI inputs.

A four-stage pipeline engineered for plant-floor scale and operator confidence — running on-prem, edge, or private cloud.

01 CONFIGURE

Standard & Scalable Configuration

Standard and scalable configuration loaded directly from the control-system configuration files — so every tag arrives with the equipment context, hierarchy, and validation profile it needs.

DCS Config · Asset Hierarchy
02 CONNECT

Connect Sources

Pull live and historical data from historians, DCS, SCADA, and edge devices via certified protocol adapters.

OPC-UA · MQTT · PI · IP.21
03 DETECT

Error Detection

Validation algorithms detect anomalies in sensor performance, degradation, and ultimate failure — every tag receives a real-time integrity score.

SPC · Anomaly Detection
04 PUBLISH

Publish Validation Status

Publish validation status to dedicated dashboards, third-party HMI dashboards, or write it back to the system of record (data historian) — so every downstream consumer reads each tag with its quality verdict already attached.

Dashboards · Historian · REST
Data Ecosystem

VALID8A writes integrity status
back into your system of record.

Validation results don’t stay siloed in a side tool — they’re written into the data historian itself, so every downstream consumer reads each tag with its quality verdict attached.

Plant Sensors DCS · SCADA · Edge devices
Asset Mgmt / CMMS Hardware health
VALID8A Validate · tag integrity
Data Historian System of Record · PI · IP.21 · PHD
AI / ML
Optimizers
Ops Apps
Reliability
Performance

Every value lands in the historian with its quality flag attached — VALIDATED QUESTIONABLE BAD — so downstream applications consume data they can defend. Asset-management integration adds hardware health into the verdict, yielding combined hardware + sensor validation that asset-care, reliability, and AI teams can all trust.

Learn how it works in detail

Use Cases

Where VALID8A delivers
measurable impact.

Real-world operations, reliability, control, and performance outcomes — driven by data your engineers can stand behind.

Operations

Give console operators and unit-operations teams validated real-time values and early event detection — so interventions respond to genuine process events, not instrument faults masquerading as upsets.

<1 minsensor-fault detection

Predictive Maintenance

Ensure vibration, temperature, and pressure sensors feeding rotating-equipment models are free of drift and comms errors that drive false alarms.

−63%false alerts on rotating assets

Advanced Process Control

Validate feed-forward and feedback sensor inputs for APC controllers and MPC models — preventing bad-data-induced upsets and unplanned shutdowns.

+4.2%APC on-control uptime gain

Performance Optimization

Validate the sensor inputs feeding performance models — heat-exchanger duty, pump efficiency, KPI calculations — so plant performance benchmarking reflects real equipment behaviour, not analyser drift.

+3.1%performance-benchmark accuracy
Who It Serves

Four roles on every plant
that use VALID8A.

VALID8A’s validated tag streams and integrity flags surface in the tools each role already lives in — control-room HMIs, instrumentation work-queues, maintenance backlogs, and engineering studies.

Operations

Cares aboutTrustworthy values on the HMI — no chasing ghost alarms or second-guessing the analyser.
GetsReal-time integrity flags on every tag, surfaced where operators already look.

I&C Technicians

Cares aboutKnowing exactly which transmitter is drifting and what failure mode it’s exhibiting.
GetsSensor-health scoring that names the instrument, the failure mode, and the recommended action.

Maintenance

Cares aboutPrioritising rotating-equipment work that’s actually warranted — not driven by a bad sensor.
GetsCombined hardware + sensor verdicts via CMMS integration — no PdM call-outs for drifted analysers.

Process Engineers

Cares aboutDefending model outputs, unit performance numbers, and AI conclusions in front of a review board.
GetsForensic audit trail and certified-clean tag streams feeding every downstream model.
“The faster sensor data validation function enables the development of AI project scopes impacting the plant operations while also addressing the data quality for enterprise-level apps.”
— DIGITAL INDUSTRY ANALYST
Why VALID8A.AI

Built by engineers,
for engineers.

Founded by veteran process and automation engineers — every design decision is informed by what actually works on a plant floor at 3 a.m.

  • Process Domain Expertise

    Developed with veteran O&G and refining engineers — not generic data scientists who’ve never seen a P&ID.

  • Edge & Cloud Deployment

    Run on-prem, at the edge on industrial hardware, or in a private cloud.

  • No Black Box

    Every validation decision is explainable. Automation engineers retain full override control and visibility into each transformation.

  • Rapid Onboarding

    Typical integration to first validated data stream in under two weeks. Pre-built templates accelerate common process-unit types.

Standards & Compliance

VALID8A.AI is engineered to align with the regulatory and technical standards that govern industrial operations across the global energy sector.

ISA-95
OPC-UA
ISO 14224
Get in Touch

Contact VALID8A today
to see how data quality can improve your applications.

Real-time advisory, optimisation, reliability platforms, AI initiatives — your downstream applications are only as good as the sensor data feeding them. Reach out to find out how VALID8A’s validated, certified-clean process data will enhance your initiatives.

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