Monitoring of LPG tanks

By its own nature, LPG tanks are installed on remote locations, the route optimizations as well as the supplying times are key for keeping logistic costs under control. Controltek offers to LPG companies a tank monitoring solution that allows remotely getting the level of gas that each customer has at a certain moment.

This permits to estimate demand curves by customer or get alerts when the gas gets below a certain critic level, thus simplifying the estimation, programming and product delivery, reducing distribution costs and increasing customer satisfaction. By knowing the status of the tank and the replenishment dates, it is possible to know if some competitor has used the tank without being authorized.

This solution is based on three key components: an effect level Hall sensor of World class, a power supply system through lithium battery of 5 years duration and a cabinet with Ex-IIb certifications against explosions. This, together with Controltek’s GPRS based acquisition and communications equipment, consists, for the LPG industry, on an economic solution, easy to install and with minimum field maintenance.

The service also provides a webservices infrastructure that allows to easily integrating the information received from the tanks to the ERP corporate systems, thus simplifying the adoption of the technology. Optionally, the consumer could get access to the level of its own tank, by accessing a public site or the extranet of the LPG company.

Finally the whole installation is monitored 7x24 from our operational center, in order to ensure the availability of the system, and eventually a technician to the field.

Configuration of the solution