You really have to have backbone to survive in the safety monitoring world today. No, there is no heavy lifting required. I am referring to the data backbone of the facility, plant or process to which the monitoring system is applied.
In times past, gas monitoring systems were free-standing, and any data they generated was collected and used on a local basis. Today, plants and other facilities most likely require that all data be centralized so monitoring systems can perform their functions and provide data to higher-level systems. Data must be accessible on plant-wide backbones, which come in many flavors.