One of the main challenges of the petroleum industry is that there is a lot of purpose-built hardware such as card locks, meters, and gas pumps that were not meant to talk to a computer. I've worked with meters that have manufacturing dates from 1978. 

Connecting these infrastructures becomes especially complicated due to all of the mergers and acquisitions in this trade. Your trucks might have tools that were all built in a certain way from a specific vendor with specific hardware, and then, if your company goes through an M&A, you may find yourself with an opposite setup. You may think you need to buy new hardware, which leads to potential downtime, eats into cash flow and increases the cost of overhead. 

At Datanova, my team has built AI to specifically address this issue. Our AI can talk to any piece of equipment, and Datanova is the only software provider that supports every piece of hardware sold in Canada.

Whatever hardware you have, it will work with Datanova.