Discover how Bridgemeter's predictive monitoring revolutionizes gas cylinder management, reducing costs, optimizing routes, and increasing safety.
Imagine a restaurant at the height of its activity 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 uncommon, and in sectors such as pharmaceuticals and hospitals, a lack of essential gases can cause severe losses, critical interruptions, and even put lives at risk.
These problems affect various sectors, such as bars, restaurants, food and pharmaceutical industries, laboratories, and even fire-fighting systems, where the lack of essential gases compromises vital operations.
It is in this scenario that Above-Net , with its Bridgemeter , positions itself as a strategic ally. Bridgemeter's predictive approach allows for intelligent monitoring and management of gas cylinders, drastically reducing the risk of shortages, lowering logistics costs, increasing safety, and promoting operational and economic efficiency.
Applications of Gas Plant Cylinders
Gas cylinders play an indispensable role in various sectors. In bars and restaurants, CO₂ is essential for carbonated beverages, an element that enhances the customer experience. In the food industry, gases such as nitrogen and carbon dioxide (CO₂) ensure food preservation and aid in the refrigeration process. In the hospital and pharmaceutical sectors, oxygen and other gases are vital for both patients and laboratory processes. In fixed firefighting systems, CO₂ cylinders provide fast and efficient fire suppression in critical areas.
The absence of these gases, in any application, compromises operations, creates serious risks, increases logistical costs, and causes significant losses, with a direct impact on the end customer and on company performance.
The Risks and Problems of Supply Shortages
Operations that rely on gas cylinders face serious consequences in the event of interruptions. In bars and restaurants, a lack of CO₂ can result in the interruption of beverage service, negatively impacting the customer experience and undermining their trust. In the food industry, the absence of essential gases interrupts production processes, compromising product quality and safety. In hospitals, the unavailability of various gases puts lives and procedures at risk, while in firefighting systems, a lack 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 refilling methods have proven ineffective in meeting current demands.
Marina Santos, manager of a large hospital , emphasizes: "In our sector, there is no room for error in supply. A failure can put lives at risk. It's a responsibility we cannot neglect."
The Ineffectiveness of Traditional Refueling
Conventional gas cylinder refilling, generally based on customer calls or fixed visit schedules with manual inspections, has significant limitations that compromise the efficiency and reliability of the operation.
- Lack of visibility into actual stock: Without continuous monitoring, gas levels are assessed inaccurately, which can lead to waste or, in more serious situations, critical failures due to a lack of gas at essential times.
- Unnecessary visits and inefficient logistics: The lack 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 circumvent logistical issues, many customers resort to increasing the number of cylinders in stock. This stopgap solution requires more space, increases storage costs, and can be dangerous, especially in the case of flammable gases, in addition to frequently violating safety regulations.
- Human error and demand fluctuations: Recharge forecasting can fail due to oversights 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've already lost important customers because we ran out of CO₂. Manual monitoring can't keep up with the agility and demands of our business."
These challenges make it clear that, to meet the 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
Aware of the needs and specificities of each sector, Above-Net created Bridgemeter, a predictive and intelligent monitoring solution that redefines traditional gas cylinder management. 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 gas cylinder levels, monitoring level variations, tank pressure, network, and consumption patterns. Data is transmitted in real time to customized dashboards, allowing you to track cylinder status, identify changes in consumption, detect leaks, and dynamically calculate fuel range. Bridgemeter generates a list of locations in order of priority where refueling is needed daily or on demand.
This information enables intelligent logistics replenishment planning, eliminates waste, optimizes resources, and ensures a more agile and reliable service.
Furthermore, based on the perception of any change 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 of 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 can eliminate up to 45% of unnecessary refueling visits, reducing travel, equipment, personnel, and operating expenses. This savings allows gas distributors to reallocate resources to strategic areas, increasing their margins and efficiency.
- Predictive and Real-Time Monitoring: Real-time readings and system intelligence ensure accurate visibility of gas cylinder levels and dynamic autonomy calculation based on consumption history and recent pattern changes. This functionality allows for adjustments in supply based on actual demand, eliminating the risk of shortages, and increasing operational safety, especially in critical sectors such as hospitals, pharmaceuticals, industry, and food.
- Increased Safety: Leaks and other problems are detected based on behavior during operational intervals, reducing waste and mitigating risks to 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 customers' existing systems. Quick installation, combined with the SaaS (Solution as a Service) model, eliminates the need for investment in expensive equipment.
- Intelligent Routing and Logistics Optimization: The solution automatically informs the coordinates of the locations with priority supply provisioning that, together with any routing system on the market, generates a periodic optimized route to supply the points that are really needed.
- Advanced Data Control and Analysis: With comprehensive dashboards and intelligent alerts sent directly to smartphones, Bridgemeter empowers managers to monitor consumption, forecast demand, and make strategic decisions based on predictive analytics. This prevents critical failures and optimizes operations.
The Importance of Bridgemeter for Various Sectors
Bridgemeter transforms gas cylinder management, bringing significant benefits to a variety of applications:
- Bars and Restaurants:
- Ensures that carbonated beverages maintain their quality, preserving the customer experience and avoiding embarrassing situations.
- Eliminates the need for the customer to periodically check the stock levels 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 the permitted level, contributing to compliance with 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 gas shortages.
- Enables planned replenishments.
- Provides operational stability in critical procedures.
- Fixed Fire Fighting Systems (SFCI):
- Keep cylinders always ready for use in emergencies.
- Eliminates the need for 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've been able to optimize our fueling routes dramatically. Previously, we wasted resources on unnecessary visits and delayed emergency response. Now, with intelligent routing, we've saved about 45% on trips and reduced costs by R$5,000 per location annually. This efficiency has not only improved our customer service but also significantly impacted operational cost control." – 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, intelligent gas cylinder management is no longer just a competitive advantage, but a strategic necessity. Bridgemeter goes beyond modernization: it completely revolutionizes the process, providing total control, predictability, and significant cost reduction.
Want to discover how Bridgemeter can transform gas cylinder management in your operation? Download the free brochure "Intelligent Gas Cylinder Measurement and Supply Management" and see how our technology can optimize your processes, reduce operating expenses, and improve your company's safety standards.
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