Visual Asset Intelligence System
SHIELD
See instantly. Respond faster. Operate safer. SHIELD transforms tank levels and operating conditions into immediate visual intelligence that can be understood instantly from anywhere on site.
Product purpose
A tank that reports its own condition.
The purpose of SHIELD is narrow and deliberate: take the operating condition of a storage asset and make it immediately legible to a human being, wherever that person happens to be.
That means a status you can read from the ground instead of the roof. It means the same status available remotely, in the same visual language, so a supervisor off site and an operator in the yard are looking at the same thing. And it means conditions that need attention are made conspicuous rather than left to be found.
Problem scenarios
Four situations every operator recognises
The level nobody watched
A transfer runs slightly long. The level was available the whole time — on a screen in a building nobody was in.
The gauge you have to reach
The only way to answer a simple question is to put a person on a ladder, in weather, next to product.
The site three hours away
A remote location is assessed on the last field report. Everything since then is an assumption.
The shift handover gap
Two crews build slightly different pictures of the same tank farm because they read different sources.
Messaging pillars
What SHIELD is built around
Safety
Prevent incidents before they happen. Fewer routine reasons to climb, and earlier recognition of the conditions that create hazards in the first place.
Visibility
See operating conditions instantly. Status that reads the same from the yard, the gate and a phone two counties away.
Protection
Protect people, assets and the environment. Attention concentrated where the consequence of being late is highest.
Intelligence
Transform operational data into immediate visual understanding, so recognition happens before interpretation.
Before and after
What changes in the workflow
The value is not in adding a step. It is in removing several.
Before
- Question arises about a tank
- Someone drives to the site
- Someone climbs to reach the gauge
- Reading is taken and carried back
- Status is reported, now already old
- Decision is made on a stale value
After
- Question arises about a tank
- Status is read at a glance from ground level or remotely
- Decision is made on a current condition
Three steps instead of six — and none of them on a ladder.
Safety outcomes
Designed to reduce exposure, not just report it.
These are intended benefits supported by the way SHIELD changes the workflow. They are not guaranteed results, and they do not replace your site’s safety program or overfill prevention practices.
- Reduce spills and overfills by making approaching high levels conspicuous
- Minimise workplace hazards associated with routine tank access
- Reduce the need for climbing tanks to answer level and status questions
- Protect personnel and assets by shortening the time between condition and response
- Improve site safety through a shared, unambiguous visual reference
- Reduce liability exposure with clearer records of conditions over time
Representative applications
Where SHIELD is applied
Tank farms and terminals
Dense storage where transfer sequencing and overfill prevention depend on immediate level awareness.
Remote and unmanned sites
Locations assessed today by drive-by, where condition is otherwise inferred from the last visit.
Chemical and treatment storage
Day tanks and process storage where thresholds matter and staff cover many assets at once.
Agricultural storage
Seasonal fertiliser, fuel and water storage checked by ladder during the busiest weeks of the year.
Produced and process water
Distributed water storage where a missed level has environmental as well as operational consequences.
Facility support systems
Boiler feed, cooling and fuel storage that gets attention only when it runs dry or runs over.
Compatibility
Alongside your systems, not instead of them.
SHIELD is designed as a visual intelligence layer. Where you already run monitoring, control or telemetry systems, the intent is to make what they hold easier to see and act on.
Specific integrations, communications protocols and environmental specifications are confirmed for your site during a consultation rather than promised in advance — the honest answer depends on what you are already running.
Questions
SHIELD, answered plainly
SHIELD is Global Tank Technologies' Visual Asset Intelligence System. It takes tank levels and operating conditions and turns them into immediate visual intelligence that can be understood instantly from anywhere on site.
No. GTT is designed to work alongside the systems you already run. The objective is to make the information those systems hold more visible, more intuitive and more actionable — not to duplicate them.
Operators and field staff who need to read a condition quickly, and the safety, reliability and operations leaders who need a consistent picture across assets and sites.
SHIELD is intended for industrial storage across energy, water and wastewater, agriculture, chemical and processing, and general industrial infrastructure. Suitability for a specific tank type, product and site is confirmed during a consultation.
A large share of tank climbs exist to answer a simple question about level or condition. When that question can be answered from ground level or from a phone, the reason for that specific climb goes away. SHIELD is designed to reduce routine exposure, not to eliminate every reason a person accesses a tank.
It starts with a consultation covering your sites, assets and the conditions you most need visibility into. That conversation determines scope, configuration and the sequence of any deployment.
Detailed specifications, communications protocols, environmental ratings and integration options are confirmed directly with the GTT team for your application. Request a consultation and we will provide the documentation relevant to your site.
See SHIELD in action
Put a demonstration in front of your team.
We will walk through SHIELD against your own assets — what would be visible, what would be flagged, and what your crew would stop having to do.