Chirality Research (“Chirality”) is proud to maintain its official certification as a Canary Labs (“Canary”) Implementation Certified Partner, bringing advanced data historian capabilities to industry clients across North America. This compliments Chirality’s core services which includes Business Intelligence and Analytics, Custom Application Development, Data Engineering, ML/AI and Predictive Intelligence, along with PhD led Chemistry consulting which provides a comprehensive approach to digital operations.
This partnership combines Canary’s proven time-series data platform with Chirality’s implementation expertise, project delivery experience, and ongoing support services to offer organizations a scalable, integrated, and fit-for-purpose historian solution. Companies are struggling with producing too much data to manage, expensive software and overly complicated analytics tools which can lead to frustration and defeat efforts to move best practices forward. Both Chirality and Canary are committed to staying platform agnostic, ensuring that data can be collected and stored efficiently to apply more context to the data to maximize operations.
Unlocking the Value of Your Data
The ability to work with your data at scale isn’t just a competitive advantage anymore, it’s essential for optimizing flowback operations, adapting chemical treatment programs, improving production performance or reducing power costs. These can drive multi million dollar impact to operating and capital budgets. Not all data is created equal and knowing what to keep in full detail versus what can be safely compressed is a decision that takes real engineering and scientific application. Some things need to be stored at high resolution to catch subtle changes or predict issues early while others can be stored in a simplified way without losing meaning. Making the right choice on when to compress or keep raw, not only improves performance and storage costs, but will support high value use cases down the road.
Without the right tools and structure in place that data often remains underutilized, inconsistent, and hard to trust. Operations need a system that gathers and stores data in one central place, creating the foundation for real-time monitoring and machine learning models. With the right setup it will create a foundation to securely share that data with third parties without opening the door to cybersecurity risks.
The first and most critical step which is often overlooked or under executed, is the hierarchical tag normalization. Chirality has developed a suite of tools to make this process fast and easy, so your data is ready to use. This process of standardizing how data is named, grouped, and referenced, ensures consistent, clear labeling, across all sites and systems. Why does this matter? Because when your data is properly organized, you can start applying it to solve real problems.
What Is a Data Historian and Why Do They Matter?
A data historian, specifically Canary, is an industrial platform designed to help collect, store, and analyze high-frequency time-series data, typically from SCADA systems, sensors, and other control systems. Unlike traditional databases, a historian is optimized for performance, scalability, and long-term retention of operational data, often capturing thousands of tags every second with precision.
| Figure 1 Axiom Dashboards that embrace asset modeling and condition-based reporting. |
This data enables critical capabilities such as:
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- Improve flowback efficiency and avoid costly mistakes
- Quickly spot underperforming wells or equipment and boost production
- Identify where power is being wasted or inefficiently used
- Predict equipment failure and flag issues before they cause downtime
- Live monitoring and alerts for operational issues
- Investigating operational issues and reducing downtime
- Comparing performance between different locations or equipment
- Becoming ready to use predictive tools for proactive issue management
- Compliance reporting and ESG data collection
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Canary is built for industrial automation providing an efficient, high-speed platform that requires minimal IT overhead and offers exceptional performance.
All Roads Lead to Real-Time Data: Why Choose Chirality?
As a Canary Certified Implementation Partner, Chirality has met rigorous technical standards and demonstrated success in deploying Canary’s technology across a variety of client environments. The certification gives Chirality access to advanced training, ongoing technical support, and product roadmap alignment with the Canary team.
More importantly, it ensures clients benefit from:
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- Best-in-class deployment practices
- Customized architecture tailored to specific site or enterprise needs
- Seamless integrations with existing SCADA, control, and data systems
- Comprehensive support, including training, system tuning, and managed services
- Implementation services that ensure long-term success
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Installing a historian is just one step. Ensuring it becomes a reliable and value-generating source system requires a thoughtful approach to design, implementation, and change management. With proprietary protocols and best practices developed over years of experience, the Chirality team has developed more streamlined ways to support the needs of our clients.
Chirality offers a full suite of ancillary services to support successful historian adoption:
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- Implementation Planning & Design: Collaborating with site leads, engineering, and IT teams to define scope, data structure, and integration strategy.
- Deployment & Commissioning: Installing and configuring the Canary system for optimal performance, data accuracy, and security.
- Tag Normalization: Develop tailored asset models via deploying a suite of Chirality Custom apps to enable crowdsourced tag normalization and leverage regex-based views to deploy user/vendor specific asset models.
- Third Party Data Sharing: Support the secure access to historian data for external stakeholders with robust cybersecurity best practices.
- Training & Documentation: Developing tailored onboarding for operations, engineering, and general users.
- Ongoing Support: Managed services including data quality checks, historian expansion, and user support.
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| Figure 2 Canary Community includes forums, Canary Academy, and more self-service tools. |
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- Ongoing Support: Managed services including data quality checks, historian expansion, and user support.
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With rollouts across North America, Chirality focuses beyond just installing the software, with the right tools and structure in place, your historian becomes more than just a database. It becomes the engine that powers smarter decisions, better overall performance, and long-term value creation.
Publications and Real Case Studies by Chirality:
Framework for AI- and ML-Based Predictive Maintenance for Offshore Rotating Equipment https://jpt.spe.org/framework-for-ai-and-ml-based-predictive-maintenance-for-offshore-rotating-equipment
Proposed Framework Normalizes Completions Tags
https://jpt.spe.org/proposed-framework-normalizes-completions-tags
Data Historian and Trending Tool Transforms Company Operations
https://jpt.spe.org/data-historian-and-trending-tool-transforms-company-operations
Want to Learn More?
To learn more about our historian deployment services or how Canary Labs can support your operations, contact Shayne Chidlaw (Shayne@ChiralityResearch.com) or visit www.ChiralityResearch.com.
Stay tuned for our upcoming engagements highlighting how Canadian and US operators are using Canary to centralize data and improve operational best practices.
About Chirality Research
With offices in Houston, Texas and Calgary, AB, Chirality Research delivers high-value solutions and data science services to its clients. With a focus on implementation excellence, systems integration, and data strategy, Chirality supports organizations across sectors in advancing digital operations and sustainable performance with a distinct approach, using general science to support data science.