eFuel Delivery Management Features

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e-Fuel Delivery Management - Features
Deliveries are forecasted for all
customers. Monitored and Non-Monitored
tanks. Its all Automated, no manual input is
required.
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e-Fuel Delivery Management Features
Review Delivery Set Displays up to date
delivery scheduling for 90 days from today into
the future. Select the truck to see map of
deliveries to be made.
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e-Fuel Delivery Management - Features
Graphical mapping and routing for each delivery
vehicle displaying where delivery has been made
and who sequentially remains to be delivered to
on the daily route.
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e-Fuel Tank Monitoring - Product Overview
Gateway Dual Analog phone jacks, Displays
Float Level, Time, Inside Outside
Temperature. Displays Installation Diagnostic
codes for in field trouble shooting.
Data Module Both Solar Battery powered, Hall
Effect sensors used to measure mechanically couple
d magnet in the float gauge head, not
the position of the site dial.
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e-Fuel Tank Monitoring - Features

• Tanks without monitors benefit from
• Historical statistical relationships involving
  usage and weather are derived specifically for
  each tank on a daily basis. Industry standard
  usage rates, (Degree Day tables), and K factor
  calculations are much less accurate and are not
  utilized.
• 90 day forecast for each tank is updated at least
  once per day and uses all new available data such
  as customer site temperatures (Inside and Out),
  live weather feeds for historical data and 5 and
  10 day weather forecasts.
• Tanks with monitors benefit from
• Much more accurate statistical relationships,
  higher data frequency.
• The ability to develop a very detailed set of
  statistical relationships for every active tank
  covering each week, (or even Day), of the
  forecast period.

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e-Fuel Mobile - Product Overview

• Use of Off the Shelf PDA / GPS / Cellular
  network as hardware platform to keep cost down
  and innovation up via commercial product
  development.
• Updating delivery transactions via e-Fuel with
  every data update via cellular network, Wi-Fi or
  serial connection.
• Integrating pricing and credit rules into our
  system via nightly exports from the legacy
  accounting software into e-Fuel.
• Serial integration with existing Bobtail metering
  allows control of the meter / pump and ticket
  printing from the PDA.
• For non-electronic meters, the data can be input
  manually.
• GPS synchronization on interval frequency
  determined by the propane company.

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e-Fuel Mobile - Features
Block diagram of e-Fuel Mobile communications and
power circuit in the delivery vehicle.
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e-Fuel Mobile - Features
Vehicle Inspection checklist
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e-Fuel Mobile - Features
Delivery list and Order Information screen.
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e-Fuel Mobile - Features
Delivery information / payment method / signature
capture.
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Summary

• e-Fuel provides automated solutions for the
  energy marketer
• Accurately forecast customer usage for up to 180
  days using proprietary algorithms and process
  methods.
• Manage order creation, review, scheduling,
  routing and mapping.
• Integrate forecasting, and delivery management of
  all customer tanks.
• Run deliveries using standard handheld computers,
  including safety checks, bobtail meter interface,
  on the spot ticket/receipt printing.
• Data synchronization and location tracking
  utilizing off the shelf standard wireless
  networks.
• Ability to manage efficient tank monitor hardware
  deployment and maintenance for thousands of tank
  monitors.
• Result Significant efficiency gains in the
  delivery
• management of fuel for the energy marketer.