US 2014/0195454 A1Published application

System, method, and apparatus for managing fluid transportation

AssigneeShalewater Solutions, Inc.

InventorsJames Chance Richie, Adam M. Klenk, Logan James Spears, Satyam Dilip Ghodasara

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Abstract

A system for tracking the transportation of fluid includes at least one server computer, and at least one tracking database comprising a plurality of identifiers, each identifier representing at least one of a driver and a truck, and each identifier associated in the at least one tracking database with: a pick-up site and corresponding pick-up time, and a drop-off site and corresponding drop-off time. The system further includes a plurality of client devices configured to: determine that the client device is in a pre-defined pick-up region; determine that the client device is in a pre-defined drop-off region; and transmit fluid data to the server for storage in the at least one tracking database, the fluid data comprising at least two of the following: a pick-up time, a drop-off time, a fluid volume, a flow rate, a pick-up verification, a drop-off verification, or any combination thereof.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of tracking transportation of fluid, comprising:

monitoring a location of a truck based at least partially on a location of a mobile device operated by a driver of the truck, the truck associated with a unique truck identifier;
determining, with at least one processor, that the truck is present in a predefined pick-up region based at least partially on the location of the truck;
determining, with at least one processor, that the truck is present in a predefined drop-off region based at least partially on the location of the truck;
recording, in at least one data structure at a remote server, at least one first temporal parameter indicating a time instance or time period during which the truck is present in the pick-up region, and at least one second temporal parameter indicating a time instance or time period during which the truck is present in the drop-off region;
associating, in the at least one data structure, the at least one first temporal parameter with the truck identifier and a pick-up site comprising at least one of the following:
a water source, a well drilling site, a well fracking site, a tank, a reservoir, or any combination thereof;
associating, in the at least one data structure, the at least second temporal parameter with the truck identifier and a drop-off site comprising at least one of the following:
a wastewater treatment facility, a gas well, a tank, a reservoir, or any combination thereof.

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A fluid transportation tracking system, comprising:

(a) at least one server computer comprising at least one processor;
(b) at least one tracking database in communication with the at least one server, the at least one tracking database comprising a plurality of identifiers, each identifier representing at least one of a driver and a truck, and each identifier associated in the at least one tracking database with:
(1) a pick-up site and corresponding pick-up time, and (2) a drop-off site and corresponding drop-off time;
and
(c) a plurality of client devices in communication with the at least one server, each client device comprising at least one processor and at least one computer program, wherein the at least one computer program is configured to:
(i) determine that the client device is in a pre-defined pick-up region comprising at least one of the following:
a water source, a gas well, a tank, a reservoir, or any combination thereof;
(ii) determine that the client device is in a pre-defined drop-off region comprising at least one of the following:
a wastewater treatment facility, a gas well, a tank, a reservoir, or any combination thereof;
and
(iii) transmit fluid data to the server for storage in the at least one tracking database, the fluid data comprising at least two of the following:
a pick-up time, a drop-off time, a fluid volume, a flow rate, a pick-up verification, a drop-off verification, or any combination thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.