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Fuel island redundant monitoring system

  • US 10,407,294 B2
  • Filed: 10/10/2016
  • Issued: 09/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An unmanned fuel island monitoring system comprising:

  • an unmanned fuel island, an unmanned data station and a manned monitoring station, said unmanned data station and said manned monitoring station geographically distant from said unmanned fuel island;

    said unmanned fuel island delivering fuel to self-service consumers on demand;

    a plurality of fuel island monitoring sensors incorporated in said fuel island, a first set of said monitoring sensors comprising machine-to-machine sensors transmitting machine-to-machine data to said unmanned data station, and a second set of said monitoring sensors comprising live sensors transmitting live sensor data to said manned monitoring station without transmitting said live sensor data through said unmanned data station;

    said unmanned data station receiving said machine-to-machine data from said unmanned fuel island, transmitting UDS-UFI commands to said unmanned fuel island, transmitting UDS-MMS information to said manned monitoring station, and receiving MMS-UDS commands from said manned monitoring station;

    said manned monitoring station receiving said live sensor data from said unmanned fuel island, receiving said UDS-MMS information from said unmanned data station, transmitting MMS-UDS commands to said unmanned data station, and transmitting MMS-UFI commands to said unmanned fuel island without transmitting said MMS-UFI commands through said unmanned data station;

    said unmanned fuel island receiving said UDS-UFI commands and said MMS-UFI commands;

    said machine-to-machine data transmitted to said unmanned data station comprising automatic response data and non-automatic response data;

    wherein said unmanned data station, in response to receiving said non-automatic response data from said machine-to-machine sensors of said unmanned fuel island, transmits said UDS-MMS information to said manned monitoring station, and wherein said unmanned data station, in response to receiving said automatic response data from said machine-to-machine sensors of said unmanned fuel island, automatically transmits said UDS-UFI commands to said unmanned fuel island without receiving MMS-UDS commands from said manned monitoring station.

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