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June 30, 2025 58 mins

Ep. 021 - From Data Swamp to Data Lake: Digital Transformation with MQTT, Ignition and Snowflake.

Arlen Nipper brings over 38 years of experience in the SCADA industry to today’s talk. Currently Arlen sits as President and CTO of Cirrus Link a company he co-founded in 2012. He was one of the early architects of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things and co-invented MQTT, a publish-subscribe network protocol that has become the dominant messaging standard in IoT. He has worked for Amoco and Koch Oil, and served as President and CTO of Arcom Control Systems and Eurotech Inc. His experience covers a broad range of technology from the design and manufacturing of embedded systems to SCADA system infrastructure implementations. Arlen holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BSEE) from Oklahoma State University.

https://cirrus-link.com/

https://www.ignitionoilandgascollective.org/

https://inductiveautomation.com/

00:30 Introductions

02:30 Who is Cirrus Link

08:10 Ignition oil and gas collective

11:40 Pain points in oil and gas OT Data

15:15 Single source of truth architecture

17:15 The benefits of leveraging MQTT

21:30 Ignition as the tool for enterprise connectivity

25:25 Sparkplug standard for modeling OT Data

29:30 Raw automation data to Ignition platform

32:00 Live Demo Topology with Snowflake

34:20 The Digital Twin Problem

35:30 Snowflake Digital Twin

36:10 Live Demo with Ignition and Snowflake

45:45 Flowboss meter connection

53:00 Review of products used

56:15 Sub-second data for drilling, completions, etc

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