Insights
18 Jul 2019
By Russell Dupuy
How wetstock management can assist with fuel vapour monitoring and compliance at the same time
It’s the topic on everybody’s lips – climate change, environmental impact and what we should be doing about it. There are a lot of factors that contribute to climate change – but the main culprit specific to retail petroleum is vapour loss, making it a target for various EPA’s. Despite regulations that took full effect in 2017 within defined regions ...
Demystifying fuel loss through integrated wetstock management
Over the last couple of blogs, we’ve spoken a lot about the performance of your fuel management system, and how to go about improving it. But often ...
Time for an upgrade? 3 steps to optimising your wetstock management system
Like most things in life, upgrading your wetstock management system is a lot easier said than done. Analysing your fuel management system performance is a good start – but ...
Is your fuel management system working for you?
Whenever I ask the question “do you understand your fuel variance?”, the most common answer I get is “yes”. Unfortunately, that “yes” usually only means “somewhat” or “kind ...
Are you getting what you pay for? Fighting fraud through effective fuel inventory management
When you make any type of purchase, you expect to get exactly what you pay for. But in a business as large and lucrative as fuel, it’s ...
Fuelsuite® supports FLS Finland’s Electronic LED Price Sign
Fuelsuite‘s enabling edge device, Fuelscan®, now supports the Finish Finnish brand FLSFinland’s LED price signs for petrol retail. Fuelscan automatically updates the Electronic Price Sign whenever ...
Has your fuel been stolen, or just lost? Understanding your losses with a fuel management system
Fraud can happen anywhere – online, in big companies, and even in petrol stations. Retail petroleum fraud occurs when fuel is stolen directly from the station dispensing it, generally ...
Fuelsuite Supports New Zealand Pump Protocol
Fuelsuite®’s award-winning IoT platform Fuelscan® now supports New Zealand Fuel Dispenser communications protocol, expanding its ability for regional applications to support PEC, Gallagher and Compac fuel dispensers. ...
Predictive analytics collaboration in Retail Petroleum
Environmental Monitoring Solution Pty Ltd [EMS] in collaboration with La Trobe University has solved the problem of identifying unexpected fuel system configuration changes, as part of a broader ...
The Seven Sins of Underutilised ATG systems
An Automated Tank Gauge (ATG) is a device installed at petrol stations to monitor and measure fuel movements. A probe in the tank automatically sends data to a ...
How well do you understand your fuel loss?
In the unique world we live in, it can be hard to define what is ‘normal’ and what is not. And it’s no different when it comes ...
Data Science Collaboration in Retail Petroleum
Environmental Monitoring Solutions Pty Ltd (EMS) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) have entered into a twelve-month research project that aims to unlock predictive analytics ...
Time for an intervention — time for fuel leak detection
Are your fuel sites compliant with EPA standards? If you have ever had the misfortune of one of your fuel tanks leaking, you’ll confidently say “Yes!”. You ...
Fuelscan support Gilbarco USA Dispenser Protocol
Fuelsuite®’s award-winning IoT platform Fuelscan® now supports Gilbarco current loop dispenser protocol – USA version. This enables Fuelscan® to passively listen to dispenser communications without loading or interrupting ...
Managing Fuel Price Compliance
The burden of meeting price compliance in Retail Petroleum has just become a whole lot simpler and more secure, whether you operate in a regulated or deregulated market! ...
Talking Retail Petroleum at YOW IoT Meet up in Melbourne
A fun evening talking about digital transformation in Retail Petroleum at IoT Meet Up Melbourne, sponsored by DiUS Computing, Startupbootcamp and YOW – thanks for the opportunity to share ...
Digital transformation: A sneak peek at the next technology wave for fuel management.
Technology in fuel management has already taken the industry places that were inconceivable 20 years ago. Gone are the days of manually dipping fuel tanks. Today we can check ...
Transforming Maintenance in Retail Petroleum Part 3
Maintaining Retail Petroleum Assets has typically being a reactive response to ‘something is not working’, where the challenge is trying to identify root cause before dispatching a technician, ...
Talking Digital Transformation with the Community
Another opportunity to pay it forward, sharing hard learnt lessons on the Fuelsuite digital transformation journey. Speaking alongside our partners Puneet Bhruga, Head of IoT for Amazon Web ...
Talking Artificial Intelligence in Retail Petroleum
Russell Dupuy of EMS teamed up with Michael Martens of Aicone to talk about digital transformation in retail petroleum at the Fuel Expo Kuala Lumpur. The high-level presentation ...
Could your fuel tanks be leaking — right now?
Fuel sites are hectic places. Between serving customers, reconciling cash and data, and adhering to safety regulations, there’s plenty to keep the staff occupied. But it’s ...