Experience in petroleum IC Card fueling System

In petroleum, SAPCIS has developed the Shanghai petroleum IC card fueling system in 1999, which is the first IC Card fueling System in china, and has extended to many provinces of Jiangsu, Hubei, etc.. Up to now, we have provided more than 25000 sets of IC Card fueling product for many dispenser manufactories of HaiLong, Zhongyi, Wenpai, Censtar, Lipai. And also, as an OEM provider, we have cooperated with Germany FAFNIR in The tank gauge monitor devices ( level indicator ), and the products have successfully used in China, Hong Kong and Indonesia. SAPINFO has rich experiences in development and integration of IC Card fueling system, level indicator system, tank truck GPS monitor system and petroleum logistics system, and widely used in china and other country.

 

 

Smart Card System of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation


1. Background

Facing with the challenge of entering WTO and the fierce competition in both domestic and overseas markets, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation makes full use of its incorporeal assets to enhance comprehensive strength through being listed home and abroad. Sinopec takes advantage of diversified operating means—chain stores, agents and franchise and various operating strategies such as cost reduction and market exploration. Besides that, Sinopec has developed the capacity of oil product distributors. On the other hand, Sinopec works in partnership with gas stations and tries to get a leading position in the market. With all these efforts, Sinopec becomes successful in China and is among the World Top 500.
However, nowadays our gasoline and kerosene retail industries still use labor to gather statistics and use the three traditional ways of payment ?Ccash, oil ticket and credit account. Consequently, it causes information delay and quite a few man-made or objective management loopholes and operating risks.

2. Requirements

The means of management and the current situation of Sinopec have failed to meet the requirements for its rapid development. After the analysis of its executives, Sinopec decides to innovate through adopting the advanced computer and network technology. The traditional gas station has realized the network interconnection through IC Card in order to achieve the final goal that customers with a Smart Card can refuel all over the world. The system will help the Sinopec to optimize the organizational structure, achieve fine management in retail, strengthen the intensive management control, make full use of chain operating, retain customers and make potential business contact. Furthermore, it can reduce the working intensity of those manual labors who deal with cash and oil tickets and solve the problem of giving charges so that customers are able to enjoy services more conveniently and quickly. With the completion of network interconnection, there are many benefits. It can speed up the rate of gathering statistics and analyzing information about retailing system. Also, it helps to persuade executives to support the implementation of policies so that corporations can become more competitive. Meanwhile, it also does good to the networked and electronic taxation so that tax imposition can become more efficient.

3. Architecture

Smart Card System of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation regards provincial data center as its key part. It respectively sets cards issuing site and accounts management site, connecting up to Sinopec management center and down to city pre-processing center, gas stations, cards issuing sites and other processing system dealing with oil card business. The circulation path for foreign land information exchange consists of Smart Card management center of Sinopec and management center of every provincial oil branch. It makes it possible for transaction and liquidation on a foreign land, and black and grey list exchange system. It has realized the application needs that customers with a smart card can refuel all over the country.

4. Attributes

  • Network interconnected gas station has the function of payment cease in black card, supplement deduction or payment cease in grey card. The system works whether it has been connected to the Internet or not. It can store 2000 pieces of refueling details under off-line process. After online operation, data can be uploaded automatically.
  • In this system, the details of IC Card transaction adopt CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) and DSS (Digital Signature Standard). Backup database is made up by mirror image hard disc and the copy tools from Sybase database.
  • It accepts IC authentication code check to guarantee the security. It adopts SAM chip strict management card for authentication and withdraw and deposit key for check. It keeps a blacklist and grey list record to eradicate vicious expenditure. It also limits the authority of an operator. Records of major operation are kept for verification. It makes use of firewall to prevent being hacked.
  • It accepts long-distance maintenance and on-the-spot service so that the efficiency of maintenance has been promoted greatly.

5. Implementation

Changjiang Asia and Pacific Computer Corporation cooperates with Shanghai sub-company of Sinopec. Through two years, we become the first to realize network interconnection and improvement of 450 fueling machines in an entire city. Up to 2000, we have issued 40,000 fueling cards of China Construction Bank.
The sales from fueling card make up 30% of total sales. We have more than 700,000,000 RMB deposits which can afford one-year operating loan and operating funds for sub-company. It has become an important and new retail means for Sinopec.
With the implementation of Smart Card System, we have accumulated all-dimensional experience from fueling machines, management backstage and card center. After that, we got the qualifications of integration dealer in the region of Jiangsu and Hubei Province and we became the biggest regional integration dealer in China. Through more than three years’ hard work, we accomplish the construction of three centers and nearly three thousand fueling stations and our sales are up to nearly 300 million RMB.