Integrated Cloud Cockpit: A viable approach to surveillance and detection of leaks in oil pipelines

Building a secure platform to connect distributed products, software and hardware simplifies digitization of businesses. This calls for platforms that can help companies ideate, prototype, validate and develop using cutting edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Block Chain, Big Data and Analytics. In this paper, we illustrate how such Integrated Cloud Cockpits (ICC) provide a seamless environment with services that facilitate development of next generation smart applications that are scalable, resilient, secure and provide decreased price-performance ratio. We support this research by presenting an empirical study on how intelligent surveillance and predictive maintenance of oil pipelines is made practicable by employing collaborative cloud services. We have leveraged the services provided by Google Cloud Platform to show how existing cloud platforms can suffice the needs of a secure and fully featured enterprise use case.