Systems and methods for automated wetstock management

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11860145-B2
Application number	US-202318123677-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2023
Priority date	Jul 9, 2019
Publication date	Jan 2, 2024
Grant date	Jan 2, 2024

Abstract

An automated wetstock management system can include a plurality of sensors disposed in a fuel storage facility, the plurality of sensors configured to sense fuel data characterizing one or more aspects of the fuel storage facility, and a wetstock management server communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors. The wetstock management server can process the fuel data to detect whether the fuel data satisfies an exception indicative of an operational issue of the fuel storage facility based on one or more predefined rules or models stored in the wetstock management server. In some embodiments, the wetstock management server can generate a workflow for assisting a user of the fuel storage facility to resolve the operational issue. In some embodiments, the wetstock management server can assign a risk category to the exception and electronically transmit an alert characterizing the operational issue to the user.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for automated wetstock management, comprising:
receiving fuel data from one or more sensors disposed in a fuel storage facility, the fuel data characterizing one or more aspects of the fuel storage facility;
determining, by a wetstock management server communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and using one or more predefined algorithms stored in the wetstock management server, whether the received fuel data satisfies one or more exceptions indicating one or more operational issues of the fuel storage facility;
determining, upon determination that the received fuel data satisfies the one or more exceptions and by the wetstock management server, a risk category to each of the one or more exceptions indicating a degree of risk;
generating, by the wetstock management server, a workflow in response to the satisfying of the one or more exceptions and the determining of the risk category, the generated workflow including one or more instructional steps to be performed by a user to resolve the one or more operational issues, the workflow being generated at least partially based upon stored data characterizing prior generated workflows to resolve past operational issues of the fuel storage facility; and
providing graphical data characterizing the generated workflow to a display in electronic communication with the wetstock management server.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, upon resolution of the one or more operational issues and by the wetstock management server, updating the stored data with data characterizing the implementation of the generated workflow.

3. The method of claim 2 , further comprising training, by the wetstock management server, one or more machine learning algorithms with the updated stored data.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising notifying, by the wetstock management server, a user of the one or more exceptions via one or more modes of electronic communication.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more modes of electronic communication are determined based on the determined risk category.

6. The method of claim 4 , wherein the one or more modes include displaying the generated workflow on an interactive computer application.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining, by the wetstock management server, one or more causes of each of the one or more exceptions;
generating, by the wetstock management server, a confidence prediction for each of the one or more causes; and
providing, by the wetstock management server, the generated confidence prediction to the user.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the workflow is generated at least partially based on the generated confidence prediction.

9. A method for automated wetstock management, comprising:
receiving fuel data from one or more sensors disposed in a fuel storage facility, the fuel data characterizing one or more aspects of the fuel storage facility;
determining, by a wetstock management server communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and using one or more predefined algorithms stored in the wetstock management server, whether the received fuel data satisfies one or more exceptions indicating one or more operational issues of the fuel storage facility;
assigning, upon determination that the received fuel data satisfies the one or more exceptions and by the wetstock management server, a risk category to each of the one or more exceptions indicating a degree of risk;
generating, using a machine learning algorithm trained on data collected from the fuel storage facility and by the wetstock management server, a workflow in response to the satisfying of the one or more exceptions and the assigning of the risk category, the generated workflow including one or more instructional steps to be performed by a user to resolve the one or more operational issues; and
providing graphical data characterizing the generated workflow to a display in electronic communication with the wetstock management server.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the determining is at least partially based on data characterizing prior operational issues of the fuel storage facility.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising reassigning, upon resolution of the one or more operational issues and by the wetstock server, the assigned risk category to a lesser risk category.

12. The method of claim 11 , receiving, upon resolution of the one or more operational issues, additional fuel data to ensure the one or more exceptions are no longer present.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising examining, by the wetstock management server and with a machine learning based-system, the one or more steps as they are carried out to address the one or more operational issues in real-time to determine a response time.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
comparing, by the wetstock management server, the response time against past resolution of one or more prior operational issues, and
determining, by the wetstock management server, an effectiveness of the one or more steps based on the comparison of the response time against the past resolution of the one or more prior operational issues.

15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
receiving additional fuel data;
determining, by the wetstock management server, that the received additional fuel data satisfies one or more exceptions indicating an exacerbation of the one or more operational issues; and
invoking, using machine-learning techniques trained on the past resolution of one or more prior operational issues and by the wetstock management server, one or more automated reactions to the exacerbation.

Assignees

• Wayne Fueling Systems Llc

Inventors

• Hill Philip
• Swaroop Prem
• Kamble Atish
• Streltsov Konstantin
• Kulig Krystian

Classifications

• G01N33/22 Primary

  Fuels; Explosives · CPC title

• B67D7/32

  Arrangements of safety or warning devices; Means for preventing unauthorised delivery of liquid · CPC title

• B67D7/78

  Arrangements of storage tanks, reservoirs or pipe-lines · CPC title

• G01F1/007

  by measuring the level variations of storage tanks relative to the time · CPC title

• G01F23/80

  Arrangements for signal processing · CPC title