Gas Station Fuel System

The evolution of this gas station and convenience store chain’s fuel management systems and processes is a strong example of how the company continues to challenge the status quo—leveraging data, technology, and its partnership with Smart Building Technologies (SmartBT) to do so.

A typical fuel store has numerous tanks with several blends of fuel that must be centrally and remotely managed. The client’s challenge to SmartBT was to minimize latency in their existing system to more effectively manage fuel inventory—specifically, to reduce the time required to obtain tank level status updates. Previously, it took several hours to receive these updates through their automated systems and processes. This delay impacted the client’s ability to manage the high volumes of fuel inventory required to sustain customer demand on a daily, or even hourly, basis.

Because of these limitations, the client’s Fuel Management team needed to maintain excess fuel within the supply chain—both in each store’s tanks and delivery inventories—to ensure that stores would never run out of fuel. This equated to significant inefficiencies across more than 1,075 fuel sites.