Ingenu’s RPMA low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) technology has secured a deployment in Nigeria, as the connectivity component of Shell Nigeria’s oil pipeline infrastructure. Shell claims that an investment of $87,000 has saved the company over $1m within a year, largely from having to carry out fewer field visits. Shell employed Upland Consulting, a Nigerian firm, to assess and deploy the networking technology best suited to the task – which forms the backbone of the Digital Oilfield (DOF) system, provided by Koncar Electronics and Informatics – a Croatian manufacturer of industrial equipment for the power industry. Ingenu CEO John Horn said that Shell used eight RPMA access points for the deployment, which was completed in three months. Koncar has secured a…