Oil Level Monitoring
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We will look at a clever design for determining how much oil remains in an oil tank. Such a device can be used by oil delivery services to keep track of their customers.
Oil delivery services monitor their customers' tanks for a few reasons:
- for contract deliveries, to avoid “runouts”,
- for COD deliveries, to prompt customers for a fill,
- to ensure customer retention, and
- to eliminate the reliance on the K-factor, which is the basis for a guess as to what is the level of an unmonitored tank.
Arnold Stillman, founder of POEM Technology, the company that developed this system will present the design of a tank monitor that uses a pressure tube to measure liquid levels. Using a pressure tube allows monitoring buried tanks where competing sensing methods do not work.
Some of the topics that will be discussed include:
- The economics of heating oil delivery
- Types of tanks
- Types of tank monitors
- Pumpless manometry
- Cellular IoT Economics
- IoT Protocols
- IoT Hardware Design
- IoT backend
- User interface
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- Date: 14 Nov 2024
- Time: 07:00 PM to 09:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Arnold Stillman
Biography:
Arnold Stillman is the founder and CEO of POEM Technology, a manufacturer of cellular IoT devices.
He has held senior engineering positions at Clever Devices, Tactronics and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Most of his professional experience was at BNL, where he designed instrumentation for particle accelerators and high energy physics experiments.
He is a past chair of the Long Island Section of the IEEE and is a member of the American Physical Society.
He is the author of several publications and has been a reviewer for The Review of Scientific Instruments. He is a graduate of the University of Rochester.
Agenda
7:00 PM Networking and Announcements
7:20 PM Presentation