Advanced Monitoring and Tracking Of Fuel Distribution

The System

The Monitoring and Tracking Solution consists of the following components:

• Click & Find Black Box for the processing and real-time transmission of georeferenced data to the T3 remote control platform.

• Digital Triaxial Inclinometer / Accelerometer with high precision sampling frequency.

• ProGauge magnetostrictive probes (digital level measurement) installed inside Still Pipe.

• Safey Intelligent Video Camera to detect, continuously and automatically, if the driver is present during the fuel unloading for a quick reaction to emergency events such as product spilling or flash fires.

• Truck Can-BUS interface to acquire fleet management data, including mileage, engine hours, reservoir fuel level, and fuel consumption.

• Fiber Optic Cable for tamper-resistant solution to certify remotely that every sensor or other installed hardware hasn’t been dismounted, displaced or hacked.

• Flow Sensors that detect fuel motion in the pipes.

Driver Profile

• The driver profile menu contains, for each driver, a summary of the driving patterns of drivers who, in addition to having an impact on driving safety, could be performed with the intention of trying to confuse the anti-fraud system.
• The behaviors examined concern:
  • Braking and sudden acceleration.
  • Sudden change in suspension.
  • Stops with significant noise indices.

The Logic Title

• The Monitoring and Tracking Solution has logic for detecting the tapping from the discharge pipe. As such, the flow sensors are placed inside the pipe to detect:
  • The presence of residual product in the pipe - if during the vehicles running phase, there is progressive activation / deactiviation of the flow sensor.
  • Tapping from the pipe - if during a stop, there is an activation/deactivation of the flow sensor, which is not associated with a lowering of the product level in the compartment, an alarm message will be released from the pipeline.

Alarms

• The Monitoring and Tracking Solution allows the generation of the following alarms:
  • Subtraction of product from the delivery pipe.
  • Presence of residual product in the delivery pipe.
  • Subtraction of product from the compartment through the delivery pipe.
  • Unauthorised introduction of product in the compartment from the manhole.
  • Presence of residual product in the compartment.