Meana Petro
DF-07FoundationalWave 1ITAI

Automated Data Quality Control

In one sentence

Continuously checks incoming data for stuck sensors, impossible values, missing periods and broken units, and reports the field’s data health as a number.

The problem

A pressure transmitter that failed six months ago and now reads a constant value will be used by every model downstream as if it were real. Data quality problems do not announce themselves; they quietly degrade every decision built on the data.

How it works

Rule-based checks — range, rate of change, stuck value, stale timestamp, unit consistency — run alongside statistical detection of distribution shift and cross-sensor consistency checks based on physical relationships. Results are aggregated into a data health score per tag, per well and per field, trended over time so degradation is visible before it is discovered by a failed model.

Data required

  • Data streams and stores to be monitored with their metadata
  • Engineering ranges and expected behaviour per tag
  • Physical relationships between tags for consistency checking
  • Instrument calibration records where they exist

What you get

  • Data health score by tag, well, field and system, trended
  • Ranked issue list with the suspected cause and the affected downstream capabilities
  • Quality flags attached to the data so models can exclude bad periods automatically

What it cannot do

Detection is not repair. This finds the failed transmitter and tells you which analyses it has been corrupting; fixing it is an instrument technician’s job, and the value only materialises if the operator commits to acting on the findings. Where a check depends on a physical relationship, it cannot distinguish which of the two sensors is wrong — only that they disagree.

Every capability page states a real limitation. If a vendor cannot tell you where their product stops, you are not being told the truth about where it starts.

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