FUELING ENVIRONMENT WIRELESS ARCHITECTURE

• US 20150271871A1
• Filed: 06/08/2015
• Published: 09/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gilbarco Sri
• Original Assignee: Gilbarco Sri
• Inventors: Carapelli, Giovanni
• Application Number:
  US14/732,919
• Publication Number:
  US 20150271871A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/202 Interconnection or interaction of plural electronic cash registers [ECR] or to host computer, e.g. network details, transfer of information from host to ECR or from ECR to ECR
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 13/025 wherein the volume is determined during delivery
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 1/0081 the reader being a portable scanner or data reader G07G1/009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A method and system for transmitting data between devices within a fueling environment comprising a wireless mesh network wherein the devices are configured to communicate via the wireless mesh network. A wireless communication device is connected to each device, and a middleware executed by the wireless communication device handles communications between the devices and the wireless mesh network.

Claims

1. A handheld device for use in a retail fueling environment, said handheld device comprising:

a housing;

a touchscreen display;

circuitry located within said housing, said circuitry including a processor implementing a graphical user interface on said touchscreen display; and

said circuitry further including wireless communication circuitry implementing a middleware program such that said handheld device functions as a node in a wireless mesh network in said retail fueling environment.

2. A handheld device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said processor allows said handheld device to control operation of at least one fuel dispenser in said retail fueling environment via said wireless mesh network.

3. A handheld device as set forth in claim 2, further comprising an RFID reader for reading an RFID associated with said at least one fuel dispenser.

4. A handheld device as set forth in claim 2, wherein real-time fueling information is shown on said touchscreen display during a fueling transaction at said fuel dispenser.