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Instant delivery
Messages and tasks reach crew members the moment they are sent.
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Energy · Offshore drilling · Tech Mahindra
Real-Time Workflows for Oil Rigs
Real-time messaging and task assignment for offshore oil and gas crews
Industry
Offshore oil & gas
Client
Tech Mahindra
Built
Real-time messaging and tasks
Users
Rig crew on tablets
Timeline
6 months, 2023
Team
3
The challenge
Who they are and what they needed
Tech Mahindra's client, an offshore drilling company, runs an established application that crew on its oil rigs use on tablets. Tech Mahindra brought in Bluelupin to add reliable real-time communication to that application.
On a rig, shifts change and people move between tablets. A message or task sent to someone has to reach them at once, and still be there when they next sign in.
Add real-time, persistent messaging and task assignment to the client's existing crew application, without replacing it.
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Nothing lost between sign-ins
A crew member joining on a tablet sees every earlier message and assignment.
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Tasks for the right person
Assign a task to one staff member and have it reach that person.
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Inside the existing app
Work within the client's established application rather than replace it.
What we built
Platform capabilities in production
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Rig crew on tablets
Staff sign in to the crew application on the rig.
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Crew application
The client's established app, unchanged for its users.
Product experience engineered for crew application
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Socket.IO wrapper
One interface for real-time messages and task events.
Product experience engineered for socket.io wrapper
How it fits together
From user touchpoints to core services
How the platform layers connect — from public experiences through APIs, data, and cloud delivery.
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Rig crew on tablets
Staff sign in to the crew application on the rig.
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Crew application
The client's established app, unchanged for its users.
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Socket.IO wrapper
One interface for real-time messages and task events.
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Message & task store
Every message and assignment kept for later sign-ins.
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Live delivery
New messages and tasks pushed to the right person instantly.
How we delivered
Team, timeline, and steps for this project
A team of three delivered the real-time layer in six months in 2023, working inside the client's established crew application.
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Map the crew app
We worked through how rig staff use the existing application and where messages and task assignments needed to flow.
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Wrap the socket server
We built a wrapper around the Socket.IO server, giving the application one dependable interface for real-time communication.
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Persist every message and task
Messages and task assignments are stored as they are sent, so nothing depends on the recipient being online at that moment.
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Deliver on sign-in
When a crew member joins on a tablet, their earlier messages and tasks load first, then new ones arrive live.
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