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E Gas Station Technology of Sun Microsystems, drives e-commerce and operational efficiencies at service stations. The technology, dubbed e Gas Station, an iForce[sm] Solution, is designed to allow station owners to create a framework for communications using a service gateway and Java[tm] technology-based intelligent controller. The architecture creates a platform for information exchange, assigning individual IP addresses to equipment from many manufacturers, and using Java wrappers to translate proprietary protocols into XML, which can be communicated to most commercial applications over a standard Ethernet network or Internet connection.

E Gas Station has the potential to decrease operations costs for service station owners, which may lead to enhanced profitability and a sharper competitive edge.

FIS eB, a technology from First Internet Systems Inc., is an enterprise knowledge portal for infra structure management. FIS eB, a solution implemented, as part of SUN eGas station is a scalable componentized framework, developed using J2EE technology.

FIS eB features include

	Device and Event Management
	Easy to maintain (at local or global levels) rules engine
	SLA/SLE based process architecture
	Enabling ease of integration to back-end applications (CRM, ERP)
	Expanded footprint to enable wireless collaboration

FIS eB provides an user friendly interface enabling a variety of equipment to transmit information about gas inventory, sales figures, and purchase orders back to a parent company's back-office systems in real time. Retail service stations generate more than one gigabyte of useful information each day, including transactions, tank level readings, pump purchases, car wash data, convenience store sales, and electrical energy usage. Using this unified approach to data collection allows operators to more easily associate in-store purchases with gas and car wash transactions, allowing businesses to build a more complete picture of customer behavior.