viAct CEO, Gary Ng, on Harnessing AI’s Potential in Rig Safety in the Middle East

Gary Ng, Co-founder and CEO of viAct, contributed a thought leadership piece to Oil & Gas Middle East on unlocking AI’s potential in rig safety across the region. Drawing on viAct’s active deployments with Aramco, ADNOC Gas, and SABIC, Ng makes the case for integrated AI and IoT-connected worker safety in environments where blind spots, extreme conditions, and high fatigue risk make manual oversight inadequate.

The piece explores how viAct’s closed-loop technology model, combining AI video analytics with IoT smartwatches, delivered a 63% reduction in on-site medical incidents at one Saudi construction deployment alone.