Overview

PCS watches every nozzle on a petrol station forecourt and turns what the pumps are doing into information the station can act on: a live view of the site, a record of every fill, and shift figures that tie back to the pumps' own meter readings.

It runs on one computer at the station. Staff open it in a browser — on the counter PC, on a laptop in the office, or on a phone connected to the station's network. It keeps working whether or not the station has an internet connection.

PCS is the software half of a complete monitoring system. The interface hardware that connects to the dispensers is built by a separate hardware team.

Features

Live forecourt dashboard

Every nozzle on site, grouped by pump, updating as fuel is dispensed. Volume, amount, rate and status at a glance, with the fuel grade shown alongside.

Fault alerts

If a pump stops reporting, or a single nozzle drops out while the rest keep working, PCS says so straight away rather than quietly showing stale figures.

Automatic fill records

Every completed fill is recorded on its own — grade, tank, volume, amount and time — with no manual entry by the attendant.

Shifts and reconciliation

Open and close shifts against live meter readings. PCS reconciles nozzle by nozzle, so a shortfall points to the nozzle that caused it instead of appearing as one unexplained figure at the end of the day.

Sales statistics

Totals broken down by fuel grade, nozzle and shift — which grade moved, which pump is busiest, what the shift actually took.

Set up from the browser

Pumps, nozzles, fuel grades and tanks are all configured through the interface. No files to edit, no restart to apply a change.

Staff accounts and permissions

Attendants, supervisors and administrators each see and do different things, and shift operations are tied to the person who performed them.

Runs unattended

Starts with the station computer and recovers on its own if it is interrupted. No one has to remember to launch it in the morning.

Roadmap

Tank monitoring

Underground tank levels, reconciled against recorded fills to show stock gains and losses.

Price and pump configuration

Changing dispenser settings from PCS instead of at the pump keypad.

Multi-site view

Owners with several stations seeing all of them in one place, with each site still running on its own if its connection drops.