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Bever Innovations connects your forecourt

Smart and connected products are increasingly used all around us.



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Bever Innovations connects your forecourt

Nowadays, physical devices and intelligent products have the ability to share data, which can then be collected and analysed.

The network formed by all these devices is called ‘the Internet of things’ (IoT). A recent article published by NACS states that “the number of IoT connected devices is expected to nearly triple between now and 2020, from 13.4 billion to 38.5 billion.”

This marked change is not only visible in retail and shops: forecourt technology is also making great leaps, and technologies are developing rapidly, with a rising need for data communication and the analysis of figures. According to research author Steffen Sorrell, “We're still at an early stage where the IoT is concerned. Knowing what information to gather and how to integrate that into back-office systems remains a huge challenge.”

The petrol retail market, like the industrial sector, is expecting a high ROI on IoT projects, as they will result in more efficient business processes. Finding a way to monitor your investments, using that data to increase efficiency, drive performance, enable innovation and keep fuel flowing has always been a major challenge for the petrol retail industry – and it now has opportunities that were not taken advantage of before. Driven by ‘the Internet of Things’, Bever Innovations has always seen great opportunities for their intelligent LED lighting solutions and ways to transform this intelligence into innovations that could change the market.

Bever Innovations introduces… EOS technology!
Bever Innovations, always several steps ahead where LED innovations are concerned, has created a new technology that could build bridges in the petrol industry. “What we’re talking about is delivering a degree of collaboration and visibility unheard of in the petrol retail market,” says Jeannot Bruggeling, Commercial Director. A wireless, remote application that can monitor your entire network using especially developed software and an app. Different devices can become part of one network, essentially driven by a great amount of data.”

Setting new standards
But setting new standards is the most important of all. Bever Innovations started out setting new standards when they improved the customer experience with FOCUS, but now we can also set new standards by, for instance, optimising operations through controlled maintenance, thus making it possible to change from time-based maintenance to preventive and condition-based maintenance. Creating a network using LED lights that is able to read status updates. If a fixture is likely to fail in the near future, the network can send a message to a service company, meaning issues can be resolved before they become a real problem.

Bever Innovations plans to roll out its EOS technology across the world in 2016, and it believes it will be a turning point in the petrol retail industry. “The end user has access to a much broader, interlinked overview of all outputs, which can interact much more effectively. It is a new way of cooperation and knowledge sharing that really wasn’t available in the past.”

 

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