Sensor for inventory management applications with remote mounting and asymmetric reflection modeling

A method comprising:

• transmitting a signal comprising an electromagnetic pulse towards material in a tank;
• receiving a signal comprising multiple reflections of the electromagnetic pulse including a process connector reflection;
• and
• determining a measurement associated with the material in the tank using the received signal, wherein determining the measurement comprises identifying the process connector reflection in the received signal using an asymmetrical model that assists in accurately identifying a portion of the process connector reflection that is unmarred by a nearby large reflection, and wherein the measurement comprises at least one of:
• a location or a height of an interface between different layers of material in the tank, and at least one thickness of at least one of the different layers of material in the tank.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by at least one processing device, cause the at least one processing device to:

• obtain information associated with a received signal comprising multiple reflections of an electromagnetic pulse that is transmitted towards material in a tank, the multiple reflections including a process connector reflection;
• and
• determine a measurement associated with the material in the tank using the information associated with the received signal;
• wherein the instructions that when executed cause the at least one processing device to determine the measurement comprise:
• instructions that when executed cause the at least one processing device to identify the process connector reflection in the received signal using an asymmetrical model that assists in accurately identifying a portion of the process connector reflection that is unmarred by a nearby large reflection, and wherein the measurement comprises at least one of:
• a location or a height of an interface between different layers of material in the tank, and at least one thickness of at least one of the different layers of material in the tank.