Automatic remote management of fuel filling stations

A method for monitoring a set of fuel dispensers (101, 102, . . . 10N) of filing stations (11, 12, . . . 1M), each fuel dispenser adapted to provide fuel to one or more vehicles, said fuel being stored in tanks (11) associated with said filing stations and comprising a means for delivery of fuel by tanker trucks, said method comprising:

• transmitting to one or more interfaces (21) of a monitoring apparatus (20):
• measurements from output probes (301, 302, . . . 30N) measuring fuel flowing through nozzles (111, 112, . . . 10N) of said fuel dispensers;
• measurements from amount probes (31) measuring a stored amount contained within said tank;
• and receipt data of fuel delivered into said tanks (11);
• storing into a memory (22) of said monitoring apparatus at least part of said measurements;
• determining (S2) two subsequent fuel deliveries for which stored amounts measured at a start of said two subsequent fuel deliveries are substantially equal;
• determining (S3, S4, S5) a suspicious situation by comparing said receipt data corresponding to said two subsequent fuel deliveries with a sum of measurements provided by said output probes during a time period between said two subsequent fuel deliveries;
• and
• triggering (S6) an action when a suspicious situation is determined.