Title of Invention

ADULTERATION CONTROL DEVICE FOR DISPATCH STATION ACD-D

Abstract

An adulteration control device for dispatch station receiving information by wireless and wired way for processing inputs from different retail outlets, like quantity received, quantity of the product received, time of receipt etc. & intelligently reconciling it with actual dispatch details on real time basis without any human intervention and sending real time alert in case of adulteration detection, logging of data, reconciliation producing and MIS reports comprising a logic processing unit, a memory unit consisting of electrically erasable and pre-programmed programmable ROM, a real time clock, a crystal for clock generation, a reset unit to provide a power on delayed reset, a communication module with wireless & wired communication support on default and wired communication support as back up, a rectifier to provide the required DC power supply and an inverter with battery back up; all the said parts, the data interfaces and the connectors being arranged on printed circuit boards and kept.inside tamper proof boxes, a tailor made software within a server having an existing data base system, database interface layer, local database, management information system, authentication module and a communication unit interface layer to carry out the required job.

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FORM 2 THE PATENTS ACT 1970 (39 OF 1970) COMPUTE SPECIFICATION 1.1 Title of the Invention : Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D' 2. Name:. (a)3 : Lakhani Arun Hanumandas Address: Nationality (b)4: 501, Omkar Apartments , Tikekar road, Dhantoli Nagpur-440012, INDIA (c)5: INDIAN The following specifications (particularly)6 describes the nature of this invention (and the manner in which it is to be performed)6. GRANTED 28-07-2004 ORIGINAL 864-MUM-2003 DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION 1. Title of Invention: Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D" 2. Field of Invention: The present invention relates to Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D". The device can be used in any field where problem of mixing / adulteration is encountered. Particularly so in the field of petroleum products like mixing of non-standard products in the standard products supplied by the Petroleum Companies. Adulteration is a major problem for these industries. "ACD-D" addresses this problem on the dispatch station side, by way of interacting intelligently with the data inputs from various devices on the field and correlating it with the dispatch station data to generate desired alerts, logs, MIS reports etc. 3. Background of the Invention: The invention addresses the major problems of getting the information about the adulteration instantly i.e., on real time basis and without interference from any human element. Earlier the adulteration detection was possible only by way of a lucky tip-off or by way of reconciling historical data. The historical data can be and is manipulated by the interested parties and the action therefore could not be taken. Hence no effective real time adulteration control device exists currently. The invention addresses these problems and informs the concerned official(s) instantly, if there is any adulteration material added to the storage tanks, and this it does without any human intervention, thus addressing the most difficult hurdles of human manipulation, and timely information. Objects of Invention: The Principle object of the present invention is to restrain and identify cases of adulteration and provide information to concerned officials / persons on real time basis by way of continuous intelligent interaction between the retail sale point and the dispatch station using convergence of instrumentation, software, hardware telecommunication technologies to achieve the desired results and keep the system functional on real time basis devoid of any human intervention thus eliminating possibility of tampering / manipulations. Further objects of the invention: ■ To reconcile all the receipts at the Retail end with dispatch station on real time basis and to generate alerts for any mismatch and send it to the specified recipients. ■ To interface with the system software of the dispatch location and process necessary information for alerts / data logging. ■ To generate randomly passwords on daily basis for preventing tampering. ■ To deploy various methods to keep the system tamper proof and maintain the integrity. ■ To have a pollution free environment by way of providing standard fuels to motor vehicles. ■ To get better efficiencies for motor vehicles by way of providing standard fuels. ■ To be a cost effective solution for adulteration control. ■ To communicate the adulteration alerts on real time basis. ■ To process at the dispatch station following: • To analyze data. • To reconcile data. • To generate MIS (Management information system) reports. • To interface with Database & Authentication module. • To generate various reports like Tank Inventory; ■ Accumulated Grade Totals. ■ Tank Delivery. ■ Dispensers' Total Reconciliation. ■ Tank Variance. ■ Site Statistics & Summary. ■ Site Configuration. ■ Tank Reconciliation History. ■ Alert Raised. ■ Customized reports can be added, if required. ■ To authenticate every data retrieved or collected from the RO module and then send for further processing & to change random password of communication and communicate to all the retail points. 5. A Summary of Invention: Invention aims to restrain and identify cases of adulteration and provide information to concerned officials / persons on real time basis by way of continuous intelligent interaction between the retail sale point and the dispatch station using convergence of instrumentation, software, hardware telecommunication technologies to achieve the desired results and keep the system functional on real time basis devoid of any human intervention thus eliminating possibility of tampering / manipulations. Typically, the Gasoline/HSD/LDO all petroleum product selling units are known as Retail Outlets / Gas Stations / Petrol Pumps etc. The adulteration occurs at these places by way of addition of non-standard fuel to the storage tank, which is later on dispensed through the dispensing unit to the vehicles, which come for refueling. In principle the adulterant has to go through the storage tanks to be sold to the customer. Hence, we propose to control these tanks by way of convergence technologies (Software, instrumentation, telecommunication etc.) and by connecting them with the dispatch station / dispatch location system on real time basis to detect any non-standard product coming from the illegal source. ACD-D addresses this problem on the dispatch station by way of interacting intelligently with the data inputs from various devices on the field and correlating it with the dispatch station data to generate desired alerts, logs, MIS reports etc. 6. Detailed Description of the invention with reference to the drawings: According to this invention, this method of apparatus consists of convergence of technologies like instrumentation, software, hardware, telecommunication etc. Drawing No. 1 shows Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D" in constructional diagram. Invention aims to restrain and identify cases of adulteration and provide information to concerned officials / persons on real time basis by way of continuous intelligent interaction between the retail sale point and the dispatch station using convergence of, instrumentation, software, hardware, telecommunication technologies to achieve the desired results and keep the system functional on real time basis devoid of any human intervention thus eliminating possibility of tampering / manipulations. Typically, the Gasoline/HSD/LDO all petroleum product selling units are known as Retail Outlets / Gas Stations / Petrol Pumps etc. The adulteration occurs at these places by way of addition of non-standard fuel to the storage tank, which is later on dispensed through the dispensing unit to the vehicles, which come for refueling. In principle the adulterant has to go through the storage tanks to be sold to the customer. Hence, we propose to control these tanks by way of convergence technologies (Software, instrumentation, telecommunication etc.) and by connecting them with the dispatch station / dispatch location system on real time basis to detect any non-standard product coming from the illegal source. ACD-D addresses this problem on the dispatch station by way of interacting intelligently with the data inputs from various devices on the field and correlating it with the dispatch station data to generated desired alerts, logs, MIS reports etc. Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D" (Dispatch Station Module): The present invention of Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station end comprises of the following components; 1. ACD-D Hardware 2. ACD-D Software Figure / Drawing Number No. 1 shows Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station ACD -D in constructional diagram. ACD-D HARDWARE part comprises of following components: (a) Logic Processing Hardware is in the chip arranged on a PCB arranged on a board within a tamper proof box. It connects to Figure No. 1(7.2) Communication Ports and Figure No.l (7.3). Wireless Network Input Port it also connects to the 7.4 PSTN Network in port (back up for the wireless) as shown in the Figure No. 1 (7.5 & 7.6) are the Personal Computer (PC) - output ports. Whereas Figure No. 1(7.7) is a Rectifier as shown in figure the device converts alternating current / voltage into pulsating direct current / voltage arranged on a board within a tamper proof box, it connects to the power system of the ACD-D. (b) Battery Backup with Inverter as shown in Figure No. 1(7.11) provides power backup of 2 hours & is provided with inverter. It connects to the Power system of the ACD-R with an automatic switching in case of power failure. (c) Real Time Clock - shown in Figure No. 1(7.10) is arranged on a board, the DS1307 Serial Real Time Clock is a low power, full binary-coded decimal (BCD) clock calendar plus 56 bytes of NV SRAM. Address and data are transferred serially via a 2-wire, bi-directional bus. The clock/calendar provides seconds, minutes, hours, day, date, month, and year information. The end of the month date is automatically adjusted for months with fewer than 31 days, including corrections for leap year. The clock operates in either the 24-hour or 12-hour format with AM/PM indicator. The DS1307 has a built-in power sense circuit that detects power failures and automatically switches to the battery supply. (d) Reset Unit - shown in Figure No. 1(7.9) resets the Communication Unit. It provides power-supply malfunction exception and a guaranteed power-up reset delay, while typically consuming l/27th the power from a +5V supply. It monitors the power supply in communication unit. The device offers excellent circuit reliability and low cost by eliminating external components and adjustments. (e) Communication Module shown in Figure No. 1(7.8) arranged on a board within a tamperproof box provides default support for available wireless network (GSM/CDMA/RHF/VHF/VSAT/SATPHONE etc.) with PSTN line / leased line as backup. The ACD-D Software half consists of software within the server having; Existing Database System as shown in Figure No. 1(1). Database Interface Layer as shown in Figure No. 1(2). Local database (ACD-D) as shown in Figure No. 1(3). Management Information System as shown in Figure No. 1(4). Authentication Model as shown in Figure No. 1(5). Communication Unit Interface Layer as shown in Figure No. 1(6). ACD-D Communication hardware unit as shown in Figure No. 1(7). The communication modem picks up the data from ACD-R and sends it to the authentication module through which it is routed to the database interface where it intelligently fires the required queries and processes the data after which it communicates to the MIS module, and the communication modem for required action. This module is deployed at Dispatch Station for data analysis, data reconciliation and MIS reports. This module has four sub-modules. (1) Communication server. (2) MIS (Management information system). (3) Database interface. (4) Authentication module. Refer annexure Dispatch Station module integration diagram - Figure No.l (1) Communication server: Communication Server installed at Dispatch Station collects data from remote RO's having an ACS System. Communication server collects data from each RO through the ACS system installed. All alerts are forwarded to respective recipients. By default, the communication server is configured for GSM as primary network and PSTN as backup, but can be configured for other wireless networks like CDMA, TDMA, VSAT, RF networks etc. (2) MIS (Management Information System): Following type of analysis, data reconciliation is done using this module, the reports produced by the system include; ■ Tank Inventory. ■ Accumulated Grade Totals. ■ Tank Delivery. ■ Dispenser Total Reconciliation. ■ Tank Variance. ■ Site Statistics & Summary. ■ Site Configuration. ■ Tank Reconciliation History. ■ Alert Raised. ■ Customized reports can be added, if required. (3) Database Interface: This module is responsible for retrieving or collecting the required data from the existing Dispatch Station database server. The data retrieved by the database interface layer is read only data, i.e., no updates or changes are made to the Dispatch Station database. (4) Authentication Module: This module permits only authenticate users to logon the system, every data retrieved or collected from the RO module is first authenticated and then it is send for further processing. The modules are responsible for changing the password of ACD-R all across RO randomly. ACD-D SOFTWARE: This document describes the modules in the ACD-D software; it explains every module and their functionality in brief. ACD-D is divided in two parts. 1. ACD-D software 2. ACD-D hardware ACD-D software works in synergy with ACD-D hardware. Every data received from Retail Outlet is collected by ACD-D Hardware, which sends this data for processing to ACD-D Software. This document describes about the ACD-D Software part. ACD-D Software modules: ACD-D consists of mainly three modules. 1. ACD-D Client & ACD-D message processor. 2. Management Information System. 3. Communication Unit Interface Layer. (1) ACD-D Client & ACD-D Message Processor. ACD-D Client provides the way to the user to interact with ACD-D System. Logically Client is divided into two modules user authentication & authorization and user interface for activities. The details of each module are given below. 1 User authentication & authorization: This module will authenticate the user during log-on and authorizes the user for the set privileges. The module provides the facility to create the users. As per requirement the privileges of the users can be altered. Log is maintained to keep track of all the users who use the system. In short following functions are taken care by the module. ■ Authenticating and authorizing users. ■ Creating and altering users. ■ Maintaining log of activities. ■ User interface for activities. The various activities that can occur during usage are grouped in to two, activities related to data and activities related to communication. Client is provided with the required data entry screens to maintain the master and transaction data, which includes; ■ Depot/Terminal details. ■ Personnel data. ■ Product details. ■ Retail Outlet details. ■ ACD-R configuration details. ■ Retail Outlet wise tank details. ■ Retail Outlet wise dispensing unit data. ■ Retail Outlet configuration data. ■ Retail Outlet wise dispatches. Client also includes the screens to communicate with retail outlets. It is possible to make the request for following details; ■ Current ACD-R configuration. ■ Modify ACD-R configuration. ■ Current dispensing unit reading. ■ Current tank reading. ■ Request for backup logs. ACD-D Message processor: This is background process that doesn't need any user interaction. At Retail Outlets ACD-R are configured to send data messages to terminal / depot. ACD-D Message processor is responsible for parsing these messages and store in database. The various data messages that need to be parsed are as follows: ■ Fuel addition. ■ Sales Log. ■ Backup Sales Log. ■ DU log. ■ Backup DU log. ■ Request Sales log. ■ Request DU log. ■ Exception Log. ■ Backup exception Log. ■ Configuration. The message processor keeps on looking for non-conformance against fuel addition message data and invoiced data for the retail outlet. On non¬conformance the alert will be generated. Alert will be communicated to concern person. To protect the tampering of ACD-R message processor will generate the random password. Every week new password will be remotely configured. In addition to activities mentioned above, message processor archives the data every day for last seven days safeguarding against loss of data. In short the message processor will carry out following activities; ■ Retail outlet message data parsing. ■ Non-conformance alert. ■ Archiving log data. ■ New password configuration. (2) Management Information System (MIS): The data received from each of the RO can be analyzed for different purposes using MIS module. Data reconciliation is also available for dispensing units. The below mention MIS is available in data report format and different chart format. Retail Outlet wise tank analysis: The analysis can be done on tanks/products. This analysis is based on the data collected from the retail outlets. If tank data is not available for the particular day due to some unexpected reasons, then the reading for that day will be treated as reading with exceptions, so that the correct analysis can be possible on the available data. Variance report - dispensers vs. tank: ACD-D automatically gathers information from the meter readings; deliveries from the dispensing unit and daily sales from the tank. It reconciles the total at the end of the day. Variance report shows sudden losses and short deliveries form the dispensing unit. Variance report - dispatches vs. receipt: It is possible to capture information on the dispatches, but the option of integrating with the existing system is also available (as most of the terminal have their own dispatching software). Every dispatches of the product to retail outlet will reply back with the automatic receipt. This report can display any non-conformance, if found in the dispatches and receipt. Alert raised: If there is non-conformance in dispatches and receipt, then software will send alert in the form of wireless data messages / e-mail / fax to the configured recipient in the database. Every time the alert is send, it will be logged by the system. This report will help user in tracking, when the alert was raised, to which concerned officer the alert was sent etc. Exception raised: Every exceptions like dispensing unit not responding, tank gauging probe not responding or frequent power failure etc., are reported to ACD-D software by the (ACD-R) Communication Unit installed at Retail Outlet. This expectation data collected can be used for exception analysis. Retail Outlet details: If required, it is possible to get the information on the owner name, address, site address, latest stock, numbers of tanks and dispensing unit connected. Retail Outlet configuration: This will display the configuration of Communication Unit (ACD-R) installed at the Retail Outlet. Here user can see the latest configuration and can change it remotely on just pressing of the button. (3) Communication Unit Interface Layer: The Communication Unit Interface Layer (CUIL) handles the hardware interfacing with the ACD-D hardware. Advantage of this layer is that it is scalable to cope up with communication traffic; this is possible due to modem pool solution. It is reliable as the system hardware is backed with battery and inverter, which doesn't lead to any data losses. It handles below mention functions. Receive message from retail outlets: Messages are collected from every retail outlet, and are stored in the received message queue; this queue is then processed by ACD-D software. Every message is processes on the first in first out (FIFO) principle. Send alerts to personnel: An alert that has to be sent to concerned personnel will be sent using this feature. Send messages to retail outlet: Messages that has to be sent to concerned retail outlet will be sent using this feature. Maintain in/out message log with date/time stamp: Every message received and send is logged with the time stamp as history of data. Modem stack support: Scale up option to cope up with communication traffic Backup support for PSTN line: If primary communication link fails, then this layer will automatically shift to backup support of PSTN line. This will help the system to work round the clock. Configuration of communication server User Interface: This is used to configure the ACD-D hardware. Parameter required for communication between ACD-D software and Hardware can be configured using this feature. Communication log status: Pending or not communicated message status can be found using this feature. Title of Invention: Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D" I Claim: - 1. An adulteration control device for dispatch station receiving information by wireless and wired way for processing inputs from different retail outlets, like quantity received, quantity of the product received, time of receipt etc. & intelligently reconciling it with actual dispatch details on real time basis without any human intervention and sending real time alert in case of adulteration detection, logging of data, reconciliation producing and MIS reports comprising a logic processing unit, a memory unit consisting of electrically erasable and pre-programmed programmable ROM, a real time clock, a crystal for clock generation, a reset unit to provide a power on delayed reset, a communication module with wireless & wired communication support on default and wired communication support as back up, a rectifier to provide the required DC power supply and an inverter with battery back up; all the said parts, the data interfaces and the connectors being arranged on printed circuit boards and kept.inside tamper proof boxes, a tailor made software within a server having an existing data base system, database interface layer, local database, management information system, authentication module and a communication unit interface layer to carry out the required job. 2. An adulteration control device as claimed in Claim 1 , where in the logic processing units are low-power micro controllers. 3. An adulteration control device as claimed in Claim 1 where in the wireless communication support is based on GSM / CDMA / RHF / VHF / VSAT / SATPHONE./ any other mode available. 4. An adulteration control device as claimed in Claim 1 wherein the wired communication back up PSTN / Other line is available. Title of Invention: Adulteration Control Device for Dispatch Station "ACD-D" 5. An adulteration control device as claimed in Claim 1 where in the alerts are in the form of SMS, FAX /mail/voice/Any other mode of communication. 6. The adulteration control device for retail outlet substantially described as here in with reference to the accompanying drawings. Dated this 29th August 2003 Lakhani Arun Hanumandas

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