Patent ID: 8527372
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: B60S,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: monitoring at least one environmental parameter that influences operation of a vehicle wash facility managed by a remote management facility; monitoring process data concerning operation of the vehicle wash facility with a controller which includes monitoring a current quantity remaining of at least one chemical product at the vehicle wash facility; transmitting the at least one environmental parameter and the process data to a server computer at the remote management facility; analyzing, with the at least one computer at the remote management facility, the received environmental parameter and the received process data; predicting, with the computer at the remote management facility, a time point indicating an expected time at which a supply of the at least one chemical is expected to run out based on the current quantity remaining of the at least one chemical and on the at least one environmental parameter; providing, from the computer at the remote management facility, a notification based on the time point; and transmitting a command concerning operation of the vehicle wash facility from the at least one computer at the remote management facility to the vehicle wash facility based on the analysis.