PnP were approached to develop a new product as a result of a recommendation.
The project brief was:
- Prevent diesel theft due to regulations changing in the UK. Previously ‘red diesel’ which is a diesel with a red colouring in it was possible to use on sites / industrial applications (note this was not allowed to be used on road vehicles). Now you are not allowed to use red diesel in such applications. Therefore, you must use white diesel which is much more expensive and can also be used in any type of road vehicle. This has resulted in a large spike in diesel theft all over the country.
- Only allow authorised people to consume fuel
- Provide a system that knows who has been accessing the fuel
- Monitor the status of a door
- Monitor the status of a lock
- Automatically turn on a light
- Automatically turn on a fuel pump
- Automatically turn on a buzzer
- Monitor fuel level in a secure way
- Track where the asset is
The Galileosky 7x LTE was chosen due to its flexible programming capabilities.
This enabled PnP to program in locally automated procedures, report on them remotely and also control everything remotely.
The solution was a modified fuel cube within a modified container and included:
- Monitoring a 1 wire RFID reader. If an authorised user tapped on to the RFID reader then we opened the fuel lid and then turned on the fuel pump so it could be used. The RFID tags code could be read remotely so that reports could be run on how much fuel each employee had used.
- Fuel was continuously monitored wirelessly to prevent potential thieves cutting wires and enable regular reports to be generated.
- When the door to the container was opened, this would trigger a live alert.
- A light would automatically turn on when the door had been opened and automatically turn off.
- If the fuel lid was not locked after the fuel pump had been used then an alarm would sound to warn the user that the lid had not been locked.
- As well as automatically controlling the lights, the buzzer, the fuel lid lock and the fuel pump, all of these outputs could be overridden and controlled remotely in case a user forgot their authorised card. They could ring up central office who could authorise use.
- Additionally if someone suspected fuel was being stolen, users could log on to the system, turn a buzzer on and turn the lights off to deter the thief.
- Live alerts were set up for fuel to be automatically reordered along with a pin point of the exact location.
- Weekly reports were set up for sites to allow the customer to bill for the amount of fuel that was used.
- Geofences were set up around key sites to alert people if the asset exited a particular area.
- Motion alerts were set up to detect when there was movement near to the fuel cube.
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