FORECOURT AUTOMATION

PUMPS, TANKS, PAYMENTS, SECURITIES AND OPERATIONS

Introducing Unity Forecourt

Just like every non-self-managed businesses, filling stations and all its operations (hereby described
as the forecourt) has seen its own share of misappropriations and scandals over the years.

But in reality, the operations of a forecourt is really not an easy one to manually track or manage.
Starting from a tanker dispensing expected volume of fuel into a tank down to an attendant faithfully
dispensing such into an automobile tank or keg, there is so much varibles in between that makes it
so easy for a station operator(be it manager or attendant) to siphon revenue or even the product
into his/her own personal pocket.

There are varoius ways this attrocities is being carried out, we highlight some

1. Diversion: Colluding with tank dispenser not to dispense enough into the tank.

2. Fake-Dip-Stick: Recalibrating a wrong dip-stick for daily measurement of tank volume.

3. Siphoning: Pumping product out of underground tank with an electric or manual pump.

4. Anti-Totalizer: Back counting the analog totalizer on a fuel pump.

5. Scraping: Underdispensing products for customer for a long period of time, allowing such small
volume to accumulate for a long period of time and then selling it off eventually using another pump
or board.

6. Board swapping: Bringing a new control board into an existing pump and using it to sell off long
term trickle accumuation.

Using these and various other means, revenue loss at forecout was estimated at $30b anually and
globally. And that means to you, it is about #50,000 on daily basis.

Unity forecourt solutions aims to curb these, by tracking the lifetime of filling station products and
revenue from the point when it is being dispensed into the tank down to when it is dispensed into a
vehicle or a container. These we achieve by providing a range of IT solutions that ensure a station
owner is kept in the loop concerning every operations within the filling station.

While there are usually closed solutions provided by pump manufacturers for pump automation, it
usually becomes an issue with data fragmentation as each pump manufacturer product hardly
interoperate with other products. For example a Wayne Dart pump controller will not work for a
Start-Italiana ATG or other pumps, forcing one to have different controller and different data store.
It then becomes nearly impossible to make a sense of such information and track product flow due
to the data fragmentation.

Unity range of products bridge this gap by being manufacturer agnostic and simply plug and play
into different kinds of pumps, tanks and tank gauges. Unity brings unification and enable forcourt
solutions to interoperate and work together.

Also, in order to install other manufacturer solution in a filling station, it is neccessary to perform a
lot of civil works like ground cutting to lay cables which result in a lot of downtime for station during
the course of installation. With Unity Solutions controllers are wireless and are installed directly on
their pump or tank, thereby saving cost on civil works and downtime for the station. For example, it
only takes 5mins to install a unity controller into a pump, a job that could normally take at least a
week.

Unity forecourt provides a range of IOT enabled solutions in order to giving you live reports and
actionable insights of your forecourt operations, and these include

1. Unity Dispensing flowmeter: At the point of fuel delivery into a tank, unity flowmeter
measures the volume dispensed giving you the volume estimate of what was actually
dispensed. This aims to ensure that the tank delivery volume expected is actually dispensed
into the tank and ensure payment is only made for the volume dispensed.

Unity Tank probes: During dispensing or while selling, a unity tank probes continuosly measure the
fuel in the tank, reporting the current height and volume. This is very useful in consolidating the
volume of fuel sold against what is currently in the tank.

3. Unity Pump WA (watchdog and adapter): This is installed into the pump itself, enabling the device
to capture every sales and operations being made with the pump. Once a pump is automated with
unity, the controller, in attendant mode, wait for the attendant to lift the nozzle and then authorize
the pump to start the sale. Once the sale is ended, the controller captures the volume sold,
equivalent amount, price per liter, sale duration and send this to LivingThing Server from where all
records are aggregated and processed together.

In self-service mode however, a sale is authorized when payment is made either via POS, Voucher or
iSmart App. Once payment is confirmed, the pump is authorized only to sell the precise amount of
fuel that was paid for. All the attendant has to do is simply lift the nozzle.

The controller also allows the price per liter of the pumps to be adjusted from the comfort of the
web or iSmart mobile app.
4. Unity Pump AT (anti-tamper): Often, when a theft is to be made of fuel product in a forecourt, the
electronic board in the pump is swapped over for another board, which will then be used to conduct
such sales. This would prevent the record of the sales from appearing on the electronic totalizer of
the original board. This however can be prevented by placing anti-tamper system into the pump,
monitoring the opening and closing of the pump lid and reporting such, if unauthorized to the
station owner/management.

5. Unity Forecourt Cloud: In a typical forecourt, there will be a number of pumps and tanks all
working together. The Forecourt cloud is where all information coming from each node is unified
and processed together for reporting. The cloud provides access to a dashboard where reports on
periodic basis can be pulled and generated.

6. Unity (iSmart) mobile app: For monitoring live operations of the station, our iSmart mobile app
helps management and station owner to get quich updates of their station operations. With iSmart,
your station are just a touch away.

WORKFLOW

Unity range of product are categorized into two sub-unit

Hardware Products

The hardware products are the physical devices and units installed into the forecourt. These serves
to monitor and capture operational data in real-time as they are happening int the forecourt. These
in summary are sensory and monitoring IOT(Internet of Things) nodes with internet connectivity to a
cloud server. All these hardware products are so designed to be functional even independently of
each other depending on your use case.

Starting from when a tanker is dispensing its product into an underground tank, it is often necessary
to know the precise volume dispensed instead of relying on the claims of the tanker driver. Here we
feature a Unity Flow meter which is essentially a smart flow meter with internet connectivity. The
product being dispensed is made to pass through the flowmeter, which captures, overall volume of
fluid that ha flowed through it from the beginning of the dispensing. Once dispensing starts, the
flowmeter notifies the cloud backend of the tank filling event and then continuosly update it wwith
the total volume dispensed so far. When dispensing stops, the flowmeter estimates the total flow so
far and then notifies the cloud backend of the total volume dispensed through the flowmeter. Such
notification is then used as an actionable metrics sent to the station owner.

Once a products is dispensed into the tank, the lifetime of the product is further tracked by a unity
Automatic Tank Gauge which also is an ATG with direct cloud access. Height of product in the tank is
continuously monitored, allowing volume of the content to be computed and events happening on
the tank to be deduced. This allow the ATG to perform a dual role of measuring instantaneous
volume and also estimating volume dispensed into the tank and volume sold out. All this information
is sent to the cloud allowing for record keeping and insightful metrics.

A product in the tank will eventually be sold off over a period of time possibly through a number of
pumps. While with the ATG, one can still deduce the volume/amount of product sold daily, it is often
important to have further control over the sale of the product while also having access to the
breakdown of how certain volume was sold on daily basis. One of the pertaining issue in filling
stations is the erratic fluctuation in the price of product. A product sold for #145 today may be sold
for #155 tomorrow and the current means of regulating this price is to have a pump engineer go to
all filling station branches to update the price.

With unity Pump WA, every sales made on a pump is captured on a per sale basis with a timestamp
of when the sale was made. Once s sale completes, the sale is logged on the device and also sent to
the cloud server. In the backend, unity seamlessly integrates with payment gateways, POS allowing a
customer to pay via his master card and the pump automatically dispense volume equivalent to the
amount paid. This is achived by maintaining a two way communication between the Pump WA and
the cloud server. Once payment is verified, the cloud server instructs the pump to start sale of the
particular amount paid. Change in price of product is seamless as all station pump can be updated
with a new price with a click from the iSmart App.

It is however not uncommon to have a personel wanting to sabotage a pump once the are aware it is
automated and monitored, possibly to disable the automation solution in it. Here we provide unity
Pump AT monitoring the lid activity on the pump. When a pump cover is opened unauthorized, the
event is recorded, sent to the cloud and the picture of the perpetrator can be taken for query
purpose.

Software Products:

COSTING

With unity, we offer a very flexible payment approach, billed monthly. You only need to pay for what
you use.

Product Initial Cost Cloud Cost

Unity Flowmeter #1000.00

Unity Tank Probe #2000.00

Unity Pump WA #2500.00

Unity Pump AT #0