Patent ID: 7295919

Claim:
A system for monitoring fluid levels of a consumable liquid in two or more remotely located storage tanks comprising: at least one monitoring unit associated with each storage tank and communicatively linked with a sensor mounted in association with each storage tank that provides fluid level information indicative of the amount of fluid in the storage tank, wherein each monitoring unit includes at least one processor to receive and process the received fluid level information; at least one central server remotely located from the two or more storage tanks to be communicatively linked with each monitoring unit and to receive processed fluid level information from each monitoring unit; wherein each monitoring unit processes the fluid level information indicative of the amount of fluid in the storage tank and communicates said information to the central server at predefined intervals; wherein each monitoring unit also processes said fluid level information to determine whether a predefined out-of-ordinary event has occurred and, if so, sends notice to the central server; and wherein the central server uses received fluid level information (i) to provide displayable fluid level data, and (ii) to forecast future fluid levels utilizing at least stored fluid level data.