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METRON ATEX Helps Save Money and CO2

By Dave Oakes, sales director, Powelectrics

By knowing what is in a customer’s tank, suppliers of lpg can increase the amount delivered, reduce the number of deliveries required and therefore save on transportation costs and greatly reduce CO2 emissions.

Powelectrics will be exhibiting its lpg tank level telemetry solutions on stand A20 at AEGPL 2009 in Vienna and is expecting a lot of interest.

Telemetry can enable lpg suppliers to reduce the number of deliveries they make, saving on transportation costs and reducing CO2 emissions – 30 per cent fewer miles can be realistically achieved. There are further benefits, including finding illegal fills, as well as improving customer service, which in turn can lead to better customer retention – this is bound to be a big issue with the Competition Commission Order coming into force.

The benefits of remotely monitoring lp gas tanks are well understood, and with the METRON ATEX from Powelectrics the process is now both affordable and reliable. The design utilises the latest manufacturing techniques and hardware, making it a very competitively priced, reliable and safe solution. Advanced electronic circuitry provides class leading battery life coupled with low temperature operation and low cost communications.

Installation is quick and easy, with no intrusion to the customer’s property. The multi channel unit can monitor up to six tanks, which helps keep costs down on commercial installations where multiple tanks are commonplace.

It is important that the data is used properly. Powelectrics will work with you to ensure the platform suits your needs. Clean and easy to understand interfaces lead to minimal training requirements, so the data can provide benefits pretty much instantly. The data can interface into your ERP solutions, giving you meaningful and useful information where and when you need it.

Whether customers are on a top up regime or whether they order as required, telemetry provides benefits. A 15 per cent reduction in the average replenishment level leads to a 15 per cent increase in the average drop size, which in turn gives a 27 per cent reduction in the number of lpg deliveries.

The savings are easily achieved and, as customers gain confidence in the solution, the average replenishment levels can be brought down even further and greater savings can be made. A return on investment in telemetry projects in less than three months. In Figure 1, some tank readings are shown both before and after telemetry starts to get used. The average replenishment before telemetry was fitted was at 62 per cent, afterwards this fell to 23 per cent. Before telemetry was fitted, the tank was getting filled every four days, afterwards it was every 10 days.

One important feature is battery performance. The Powelectrics METRON ATEX has a five-year battery life with one transmission every day. The quickest payback is on industrial applications, where predicting the consumption is difficult, so daily transmissions make for a much better solution.

The Powelectrics METRON ATEX carries all the relevant approvals. The device has been tested and approved to cover ATEX, and the manufacturing process is also approved and audited.

The WEEE regulations relating to batteries were changed in October 2009 – the Powelectrics METRON ATEX is fully compliant. The design has been completed to ensure the device complies with FCC, PTCRB and UL approval and, over the coming months, Powelectrics will have a device that can be used in North America.

Powelectrics has been trading since 1983 and has a lot of experience in the field of sensing and telemetry, producing over 23,000 telemetry devices. Having shipped to five continents, we know how to make products that are useable and reliable.

By listening to customers and giving them what they need, as well as working in the field, products that suit the application are the result. A good practical understanding linked to high quality electronics design and manufacture have made for a class leading solution. Well trained staff, audited manufacturing processes and rigorous test procedures limit hardware and configuration issues. The person onsite is the person that matters, and the METRON ATEX makes that person’s life as easy as possible.”

Contact Powelectrics on 01827 310666 www.powelectrics.co.uk