Discover how Bridgemeter 's predictive monitoring revolutionizes gas cylinder management, reducing costs, optimizing routes and increasing safety.
Imagine a restaurant in full swing on a Saturday night, with customers eagerly awaiting cold drinks and impeccable dishes. Suddenly, at a critical moment, the CO₂ in the cylinders that carbonate the drinks runs out, compromising the experience and frustrating customers. Situations like this are not rare, and in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and hospitals, the lack of essential gases can cause severe losses, critical interruptions and even put lives at risk.
These problems affect several segments, such as bars, restaurants, food and pharmaceutical industries, laboratories and even fire fighting systems, where the absence of essential gases compromises vital operations.
It is in this scenario that Above-Net Bridgemeter solution , positions itself as a strategic ally. Bridgemeter 's predictive approach allows you to monitor and manage gas cylinders intelligently, drastically reducing the risk of shortages, reducing logistical costs, increasing safety and promoting operational and economic efficiency.
The Applications of Gas Plant Cylinders
Gas cylinders play an indispensable role in various sectors. In bars and restaurants, CO₂ is essential for carbonated drinks, an element that elevates the customer experience. In the food industry, gases such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2) guarantee the preservation of food and aid the refrigeration process. In the hospital and pharmaceutical sector, oxygen and other gases are vital for both patients and laboratory processes. In fixed fire fighting systems, CO₂ cylinders provide quick and efficient extinguishing of fires in critical areas.
The absence of these gases, in any application, compromises operations, generates serious risks, increases logistics costs and causes significant losses, with a direct impact on the end customer and the performance of companies.
The Risks and Problems of Lack of Supply
Operations that rely on gas cylinders face serious consequences in the event of outages. In bars and restaurants, a lack of CO₂ can result in the interruption of drinks service, damaging the customer experience and compromising their trust. In the food industry, the absence of essential gases interrupts production processes, compromising the quality and safety of products. In hospitals, the unavailability of various gases puts lives and procedures at risk, while in fire fighting systems, the absence of CO₂ can lead to failure to control fires in critical areas, with potentially devastating consequences.
Therefore, efficient and accurate management of gas levels is crucial to avoid these catastrophic scenarios. However, traditional monitoring and manual recharging methods have proven ineffective in meeting current demands.
Marina Santos, manager of a large hospital , highlights: “In our sector, there is no room for errors in supply. A failure puts lives at risk. It is a responsibility that we cannot neglect.”
The Ineffectiveness of Traditional Refueling
Conventional refueling of gas cylinders, generally based on customer calls or fixed schedules of visits with manual inspections, presents significant limitations that compromise the efficiency and reliability of the operation.
- Lack of visibility of real stock: Without continuous monitoring, gas levels are assessed inaccurately, which can lead to waste or, in more serious situations, critical failures due to lack of gas at essential moments.
- Unnecessary visits and inefficient logistics: The absence of predictive monitoring leads to frequent visits based on historical consumption estimates, increasing operational, logistical and personnel costs, in addition to generating avoidable environmental impacts.
- Unnecessary increase in customer inventory: To overcome logistical problems, many customers resort to increasing the number of cylinders stored. This palliative solution requires more space, increases storage costs and can be dangerous, especially in the case of flammable gases, in addition to often contravening safety standards.
- Human errors and fluctuations in demand: Recharge prediction may fail due to forgetfulness or unexpected increases in consumption between inspections.
- Unidentified leaks: Without continuous monitoring, leaks can go unnoticed, resulting in financial losses and operational risks.
João Carvalho, owner of a restaurant chain, shares : “We have already lost important customers because we ran out of CO₂. Manual monitoring cannot keep up with the agility and demands of our business.”
These challenges make it clear that, to meet growing demands for efficiency, reliability and savings, it is essential to adopt more advanced, automated and connected monitoring solutions, capable of offering safer, more agile and sustainable operations.
Bridgemeter : The Most Reliable Solution for Gas Cylinder Management
Attentive to the needs and particularities of each sector, Above-Net created Bridgemeter , a predictive and intelligent monitoring solution that redefines the traditional management of gas cylinders. Bridgemeter performs intelligent real-time monitoring of gas levels in cylinders, with the flexibility to adapt to the specific needs of each sector and application, ensuring unparalleled efficiency and reliability.
How does Bridgemeter Work?
Bridgemeter provides accurate measurements of cylinder gas levels, monitoring level variations, tank pressure, network and consumption patterns. The data is transmitted in real time to personalized dashboards, allowing you to monitor the status of the cylinders, identify changes in consumption, detect leaks and calculate autonomy dynamically. Bridgemeter generates a list of priority-ordered locations daily or on demand where supply is needed.
This information enables intelligent logistics replenishment planning, eliminates waste, optimizes resources and guarantees a more agile and reliable service.
Furthermore, based on the perception of possible changes in operational patterns, the platform generates proactive alarms for the maintenance (or logistics) team about the problem, and how to address it with tasks and documentation from the customer's installation.
Benefits of Bridgemeter for Gas Cylinder Management
With cutting-edge Industrial IoT technology, Bridgemeter offers a series of benefits that revolutionize gas cylinder management:
- Reduced Logistics Costs: Bridgemeter Bridgemeter to 45% of unnecessary refueling visits, reducing travel costs, personal equipment and operational expenses. This economy allows gas distributors to reallocate resources to strategic areas, increasing their margin and efficiency.
- Predictive and Real-Time Monitoring: Real-time reading and system intelligence ensure accurate visibility of cylinder gas levels and dynamic range calculation based on consumption history and recent pattern changes. This functionality allows the adjustment of supply based on real demands, eliminates the risk of shortages and increases operational safety, especially in critical sectors such as hospitals, pharmaceuticals, industrial and food.
- Increased Safety: Leaks and other problems are detected based on behavior carried out at intervals between operations, reducing waste and mitigating risks for employees and the environment. In firefighting systems, continuous monitoring ensures that cylinders are always ready for emergencies.
- Interoperability and Simplified Installation: Compatible with any sensor on the market, Bridgemeter easily integrates with customer's existing systems. Quick installation, combined with the SaaS (Solution as a Service) model, eliminates the need for investments in expensive equipment.
- Intelligent Routing and Logistics Optimization: The solution automatically informs the coordinates of locations with priority supply provisioning which, together with any market routing system, generates a periodic optimized route to supply the points actually needed.
- Advanced Data Control and Analysis: With complete dashboards and intelligent alerts sent directly to your smartphone, Bridgemeter enables managers to monitor consumption, predict demands and make strategic decisions based on predictive analysis. This prevents critical failures and optimizes operation.
The Importance of Bridgemeter for Various Sectors
Bridgemeter transforms gas cylinder management, bringing significant benefits to several applications:
- Bars and Restaurants:
- It ensures that carbonated drinks maintain their quality, preserving the customer experience and avoiding embarrassing situations.
- Eliminates the need for the customer to periodically check the stock level of gases and beverage barrels.
- Reduces unnecessary distributor visits for replenishment and ensures the necessary stock with minimum space and security.
- Food Industry:
- Continuously monitors the gases used in food preservation.
- Eliminates the need for the customer to periodically check gas stock levels.
- Prevents interruptions in processes and production lines.
- Minimizes losses of perishable products.
- Reduces unnecessary distributor visits for replenishment and ensures the necessary stock with minimum space and security.
- Pharmaceutical and Hospital Sectors:
- Ensures uninterrupted supply of essential gases.
- Eliminates the need for the customer to periodically check gas stock levels.
- Reduces patient risks.
- Ensures the continuity of operations in hospitals and laboratories.
- Reduces the storage of reserve cylinders above what is permitted, contributing to adherence to safety standards.
- Laboratories:
- Provides precise control of gas consumption.
- Eliminates the need for the customer to periodically check gas stock levels.
- Reduces losses and delays due to unexpected lack of gases.
- Enables planned refills.
- Provides operational stability in critical procedures.
- Fixed Fire Fighting Systems (SFCI):
- Keeps cylinders always ready for use in emergencies.
- Eliminates the need for a periodic task of checking gas stock levels by the customer or the fire brigade.
- Ensures adherence to fire regulations regarding minimum gas stock levels.
- Increases security.
- Reduces costs associated with frequent inspections.
“With Bridgemeter , we were able to optimize our supply routes in surprising ways. Before, we spent resources on unnecessary visits and took time to respond to emergencies. Now, with intelligent routing, we save around 45% on trips and reduce R$5,000 per location annually. This efficiency not only improved our customer service, but also had a significant impact on controlling operational costs.” – Carlos Mendes, Operations Manager at a large gas distributor.
Conclusion: The Future of Gas Cylinder Management
In a scenario where efficiency and safety are non-negotiable priorities, the intelligent management of gas cylinders is no longer just a competitive advantage but has become a strategic necessity. Bridgemeter goes beyond modernization: it completely revolutionizes the process, providing total control, predictability and significant cost reduction.
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