With the help of CPCECHO, Amtrol-Alfa transforms its product into a digital service

Amtrol-Alfa, the largest European producer of gas cylinders, belonging to the American group Worthington Enterprises, with over 50 years of experience, was looking for a differentiating factor from the competition, in order to offer its customers innovation and added value in the sale of its product.

After validation and the success of the prototype, an application ecosystem was designed jointly with the client, allowing Amtrol's client (B2B) to access the cylinder inventory, maintenance and requalification plans for the assets and IoT devices, integration with gateways enabling geolocation of the cylinders, IoT updates and downloading of the measurement buffer to feed a dashboard of various metrics (namely sales planning (months with higher sales, consumption averages associated with weather conditions, sales by geographic region, etc.), collections and operational improvements (for example, collections at supply points will only be scheduled when there are actually empty cylinders to collect). Also in the B2C component, through the mobile APP, consumers can access a set of information that allows them to analyse their consumption patterns by installation location, alerts to place new orders and an improved experience). With this Project, Amtrol has the capacity to deliver these features together with its product, for its clients to incorporate within their infrastructures (e.g. Mundo Galp, Pluma Inteligente cylinder) or to make the same features available on the SaaS platform + Mobile APP, developed by CPC Echo. In the second phase of the Project, these features will be expanded to other types of cylinders and sensor communication technologies (e.g. NB-IoT for industrial use cylinders). This Project was highly differentiating, innovative and disruptive, following market trends, allowing Amtrol to differentiate itself from its competition worldwide. Its product became a digital service.