Biography

Layne Tucker (CEO & Founder) is a Tahltan indigenous, global RFID Board certified Subject Matter Expert and initiator of 14 technology patents in the US and Canada, including the IP behind EchoRFID. Layne has extensive experience in pipelines having worked in the US, Canada, and in the Arabian Gulf and he successfully built and exited two pipeline and facility construction companies in Northern British Columbia and Northern Alberta, Canada.

Description

Over the past 50 years the pipeline industry has grown to become an asset-intensive, highly regulated, technically complex business. While technology has provided the efficiencies required to effectively develop and manage the infrastructure, field-based lifecycle management has lagged behind other disciplines. As such, it represents a significant opportunity for process streamlining and cost reduction. To achieve these goals, EchoRFID™ has successfully developed PIPETALKER™, a system that will revolutionize how materials are tracked and traced, how construction documentation is retained, and how integrity management will be conducted in the future, all to provide significant value to pipeline owners and operators.