Tapping into the power of IoT
By adopting a secure IoT solution and fitting smart meters to its gas tanks, the company was looking to provide faster, safer delivery of fuel and improve customer satisfaction, while controlling costs. The smart meters would ensure that business customers and consumers never run out of gas, provide alerts should any leaks arise, and offer complete visibility of its entire gas tank estate. This would be made possible by harvesting data from the installed smart meters.
Global energy distributor SHV Energy is constantly looking to offer cleaner fuels and provide a greener service to lower its overall carbon footprint
Getting connected
SHV Energy chose IoT connectivity from Orange Business to deploy the smart telemetry and meters. The company is fitting smart devices to both legacy and new gas tanks, along with antennae and a magnet mechanism that measures the gas. Each of these smart telemetry devices includes an Orange global SIM, which transfers data to SHV Energy’s offices via the Orange global mobile network. This provides SHV Energy with the status of each individual tank.
The Orange global mobile network is enhanced by an alliance of operators and roaming agreements. This ensures that data from the smart meters gets to the data platform, efficiently and securely. Orange provides SHV Energy with a self-provisioning portal to activate the SIMs.
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SHV Energy
SHV Energy is a privately-owned Dutch company and the world’s leading distributor of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It helps customers switch from polluting oil and solid fuels to cleaner fuels such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and renewables to lower carbon emissions.