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Science & Information Technology => Science Discussion Forum => Latest Technology => Topic started by: rezwan.eee on April 21, 2017, 01:52:34 AM
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Much of our economy is based on the use of gases. In addition to the obvious gases like gasoline and diesel, there is also a very big market for supplying and managing the distribution of noble gases throughout globe.
According to Transparency Market Research, in 2012, the noble gas market was estimated at 179 billion liters globally is projected to be approximately 202 billion liters by 2019.
Keep in mind that there is are multiple tiers of distribution from the points of production to the points of consumption – with inventories of gas in tanks in increasingly smaller sizes all the way out to businesses and consumers. Managing that flow efficiently has been challenging. Companies have been unable to accurately visualize the locations of inventory, different sizes of tanks, and differing rates of consumption. This lack of visibility translates into loss of opportunities.
Historically, tracking inventories along the supply chain was done by “gut” feel, over or under buying, and lots of manual logging, estimating and reactive refilling of gas tanks. Visionary leaders in the industry recognized that there had to be a more efficient and cost effective way to remove all the manual effort, reduce errors due to manual processes, and make more information available in real time for decision making and value add to customers.
Device Solutions was contacted by a cooperative of 150 gas companies to envision a better system to remote monitor inventories and critical supply points along the supply chain. The solution had to handle widely distributed tanks and cylinders across North America, and most importantly had to scale quickly, easily, and cost effectively. The ROI for the solution was to be compared to the expensive costs of labor, vehicle usage, fuel costs, costs of erroneous data and other factors involved in manually checking each of the individual tanks on a regular basis.
In this case, hourly and/or daily monitoring of each tank is sufficient resolution to give the gas companies the view into the inventory needed for inventory management and forecasting.
Cellio, Device Solution’s system of wireless gateways and transceivers, was used to provide the optimal solution to the gas cylinder and tank monitoring problem.