Digital Application Center
The new IIoT platform for intelligent energy and building management
RCT's Digital Application Center (DAC) connects the world of Operational Technology (OT) with the digital world of Information Technology (IT) and AI (Artificial Intelligence). The sensor data generated in tank systems and building technology can be recorded, stored and evaluated via the IIoT platform - and used as the basis for simple monitoring, predictive logistics planning and more efficient business processes.
Thanks to the modular software architecture, we can configure tailor-made application solutions - including customer-specific designs - in no time at all. According to the principle: The customer determines the solution!
Welcome to the RCT world!
Simplify Monitoring.
The cockpit for energy suppliers
The co-pilot: the mobile app
And how does your energy management take off?
Digitization in just 3 steps:
Step 1: Utilize the potential of data
Energy suppliers need to record tank levels and meter readings quickly and centrally. To do this, they need information that is important for their day-to-day business. The prerequisite: accurate and up-to-date data on fill levels and meter readings, as well as temperatures and pressures.
We digitize your tanks and meters. RCT's IIoT solutions give energy suppliers “insight” into their systems, i.e. precise information on tank filling and meter readings and thus the data basis for future-proof business processes.
How do we do this? Through a clever combination of hardware and software. RCT digitizes your tanks and equipment technology with the LEVELview plug & play monitoring system, which consists of transmitter units, sensors, radio receivers and accessories such as batteries, data loggers and antennas. This creates connectivity to RCT's Digital Application Center (DAC).
Functional diagram: LPG tank
Data collection:
precise and automatic
With RCT systems, tank levels of LPG, oil, diesel, petrol, A1 fuel and water tanks as well as levels in the chemical and food industries - as well as gas meter readings and object statuses - can be recorded quickly and easily (pictured: RCT LEVELview for LPG tanks).
Data transmission:
safe and efficient
RCT devices feature state-of-the-art transmission technologies both locally and globally: Cellular 4G/3G/2G, NB-IoT, LoRa-WAN, CatM1 or even WLAN, LTE and RF.
Additional functions:
• Forwarding to other ERP systems via REST API interfaces, automated data exchange
• Customers can be informed via virtual alarms
Step 2: Turn data into smart information
With RCT's Digital Application Center (DAC), level and meter data and much more can be seamlessly collected and visualized on dashboards. This enables system statuses to be clearly recorded, availability to be optimized, downtimes to be avoided and logistics to be planned with foresight.
Regardless of whether it is just one tank or a large number of different tanks, meter readings and objects - with the IIoT platform, energy suppliers have all measurement data and messages firmly in view - cloud-based on the PC or mobile on smartphones and tablets.
Benefit from new added value. With the new Digital Application Center, RCT offers even more data security, transparency, flexibility, convenience and support for your energy and building management.
With customizable dashboard:
everything in view
The flexible dashboard can be configured individually and bundles precisely the information that is required for daily work in various business areas, e.g:
• Which tanks are to be filled?
• What service tasks do technicians have to perform (e.g. changing batteries)?
• What is the total requirement of certain tank groups for precise order picking, warehouse management and route planning?
Consumption, alarms, invoicing:
all automatic
Energy suppliers are on the safe side. They have insight into energy consumption at all times. Important or critical conditions relating to the monitoring of tanks, meters and objects can be defined individually. The DAC offers a wide range of alarm options as well as the free or automated creation of reports:
• Automatic notifications by e-mail, push message, SMS or directly via the ERP system, e.g. alerts when individual limit values are reached
• Reporting date-related billing for industry, property management and municipalities
• Calculations of fill levels (first in/first out) for end customers as at the reporting date
Plant locations:
localize exactly
Energy suppliers often have to supply a large number of tank facilities, regularly travel to them for filling or servicing - and it is not uncommon for facilities to be remote. The maps function of the RCT app provides support with precise geodata of the objects.
• Storage of information and image material on tank facilities and other objects
• Logbook functions and history data
• Direct information requests via ChatGPT
• Automatic alarm to RCT service staff in the event of a fault if required
Step 3: Make predictions through knowledge
Correctly correlating and interpreting data provides useful insights: for correct decisions, better planning and forward-looking logistics and services. With our IIoT platform, we offer helpful processing and analysis functions.
Use AI for support! With AI such as ChatGPT, RCT's Digital Application Center can be used to make projections and thus predictions about future events based on various key figures. Do you need quick and well-founded answers to questions about scheduling and logistics planning?
How high is the energy consumption
in 3, 6 or 9 days?
The selection for predictive consumption determination can be customized: based on customer, time period or medium.
• Support for dispatchers via AI e.g. ChatGPT
• Newly developed interfaces allow special queries to be realized
• Dispatchers receive answers to future events or decision-making aids
Which tanks must be filled,
which routes are planned?
What if the tanker driver returns earlier from the tour because he has planned his logistics route better with AI support? AI can be used to answer questions such as:
• Which tanks will probably need to be filled, for example in the coming week, also taking into account historical and weather data?
• Which trucks should be used for which tours, taking into account internal information such as calendar and availability?
Are the data secure?
Yes!
RCT's Digital Application Center (DAC) meets the highest security standards.
The data is stored in one of the most modern and secure data centers in the world: the Open Telekom Cloud. This ensures that all customer data remains in Germany and the EU - in strict compliance with data security in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). With a permanent maximum availability of 99.999%, the Open Telekom Cloud offers maximum reliability - plus an emergency power supply for at least 48 hours.
Access required?
The web application can be accessed via any web browser on a PC
or mobile via a smartphone and tablet at the URL address:
Do you have any questions? Give us a call.
Telefon: +49 6462 419880