Oil and Propane Solutions - Tank Monitoring

As the propane and fuel oil distribution industry strives to find better ways to efficiently deliver energy products, accurately determining inventory levels in customer tanks is a logical goal. Companies have historically attempted to forecast when a customer requires a delivery using a variety of methodologies including Degree Day, Units Per Day & Fixed Periods among others. Technologies have existed for a while which allow electronic monitors to be installed on customer tanks reporting the current tank levels.

Data Entrée provides software solutions which integrate data from popular tank monitoring systems including Enertrac and WESROC with ADD Systems E3 Energy, storing tank transactions and automatically pushing the tank levels into ADDS.

The WESROC product line from Independent Technologies (ITC) consists of remote monitoring systems, management software, and wireless transmission products.  Data Entrée provides software solutions which will track and store WESROC tank transactions and automatically push the tank levels into ADDS Systems E3 Energy.

Enertrac provides low bandwidth, low cost monitors for the fuel distribution industry. These monitors can cost as little as 20% of the cost of competing monitors. The Enertrac solution is cost effective making it possible to deploy monitors on every customer tank. Monitors report temp & tank levels every hour to Enertrac servers.

ADD Systems provides computer systems for the propane and fuel oil industries. Data Entrée provides software solutions which will track and store Enertrac tank transactions and automatically push the tank levels into ADDS Systems E3 Energy.

How it Works -

1. Monitors are installed on a customer tank and begin transmitting tank level information hourly.
2. Data Entrée runs a scheduled task to download the transaction file from the Enertrac servers. This process can be run any number of times per day.
3. The downloaded transaction file is processed and uploaded into a local database.
4. The most current transaction from the file is then pushed into ADD systems via Smartconnect using the In‐Tank Read function.
5. The Smartconnect In‐Tank read function then updates the tank percentage and reforecasts delivery information.
6. A process log is sent via email at the termination of the process. The log contains any monitors that have not reported within the last 24 hours, any failures reported from the In‐ Tank Read function & and a summary of successes and failures.

By integrating the monitor readings directly into the ADDS forecasting and delivery system you can be confident in the level allowing for a lower reserve and fewer annual deliveries.