Officials for both said the teaming of the companies will fuel the expansion of GKM Consultants' range of high-quality data-acquisition services.

"GKM has a tenured and solid reputation in the Canadian market for providing best of breed solutions to their clients to ensure safety," sensemetrics director of channels and alliances Mike Gray said.

"Their desire to partner with us, is a true statement of intent, from one of the leading consulting companies, that real-time and true cloud-based monitoring is the most robust solution available to our clients".

The pair said that the partnership will reduce infrastructure costs, improve asset utilisation and provide higher operational efficiency, as well as increased safety.

GKM president Stéphane-Éric Thivierge noted that consultants bridge instrumentation technologies and complex monitoring assignment into a single turnkey servicing company for the benefit of their clients.

"At GKM Consultants, we strive to provide fully customisable services. The sensemetrics cloud platform allows us to continue to offer flexible services to our clients; it enables sensor data to be seamlessly relayed via the client's preferred gateway, and managed with sensemetrics' high-level software or viewed with third party integrations.

"We, at GKM Consultants want to elevate decision-making by creating unparalleled data transparency," he added.