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New modern gas pumps need a fast Ethernet connection, not only to enable payment terminals but to provide real-time transaction data to fleet maintenance or accounting programs.
Many cardlock stops and private fleets have gas tanks that are buried and pumps that are outdated. If you replace the fuel pumps with a more modern system, that system will require a phone line for communication. Typically, the requirement is a method to communicate from the fuel pump/ fuel island itself to a shelter that is onsite. However, you don’t want to have to do any digging on site.
Payment terminals at gas stations also face a relatively new challenge – they must be EMV compliant by 2020, as dictated by Visa and Mastercard. This deadline was already extended once from 2017. EMV is a payment method is a global standard for credit cards that uses computer chips to authenticate (and secure) chip-card transactions.
EMV integration takes significant resources that will require gas stations to completely re-wire every gas pump connection to support Ethernet connectivity. Currently, if there is any communications at all at the gas pump, it is typically a two-wire, standard twisted pair connection.
Legacy slow-speed wires can’t support EMV transactions, even if the pump itself could be more easily updated or retrofitted. The cost of upgrading would then be compounded by the loss of business during the upgrade process.
Zipline is the perfect solution for this need. Zipline doesn’t require any digging/ trenching. ZipLine offers an excellent, easy to implement solution allowing the pump to communicate with an onsite shelter, where typically there will already be an installed phone line.
ZipLine provides 1-2 phone lines and/ or an Ethernet connection between two points and can be used to connect from the pump to the closest building where there may already be an Ethernet connection. It can be installed in 2 hours and ships pre-configured in a kit with everything you need.
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