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package allows it to be configured to meet specific needs. From design to functionality, the Ovation2 dispenser features will extend new benefits to retailers and their customers. Specific new features of the Ovation2 dispenser include: 25 percent increased branding area and increased flexibility in branding options; new white-on-black displays for sales; volume and UPD; redesigned payment area enhances privacy, ergonomics, and transaction flow; glass display windows; metal frame panel construction; and expanded use of steel cladding. The Ovation2 dispenser will be available across North America in mid-2014. fuel networks. The Fusion forecourt platform can now unify every aspect of forecourt equipment and operations management. Fuel site owners can take advantage of real-time, around-the-clock data regarding their fuel dispensers, forecourt hardware and fuel inventories delivered through a user-friendly, single point of control that is "manufacturer agnostic." That flexibility allows retailers to receive and track data from all of their dispensers, pointof-sale and ATG systems, regardless of brand, which enables largescale operational control and monitoring across entire networks of fueling sites. Wayne — Austin, Texas — www.wayne.com Wayne — Austin, Texas — www.wayne.com Abierto Introduces e-Cigarette Informational Kiosk PDQ ProTouch ICON Abierto Networks e-Cigarette Kiosk leverages touchscreen functionality to allow consumers to quickly learn about the many brands and models available to them at a retail location, and invites them to download promotional offers and coupons for e-Cigarettes to their cell phones. The mobile coupons are instantly redeemable at the store's POS, encouraging consumers to try these products right away. The promotional aspect of the kiosk is critical to a successful interaction with the consumer. Once product information is made available to a consumer, the kiosk offers an incentive to try these new products by providing a mobile coupon redeemable on-site. The consumer can bring this coupon to the register with confidence that they have selected the right product, and that they are purchasing it at a great value thanks to the kiosk. Abierto Networks — Eliot, Maine — www.ab-net.us Wayne Fuel Management Enhancements to Fusion™ Forecourt System Wayne, a global leader in fuel dispensers and forecourt technologies, announces new fuel management capabilities available with its Wayne Fusion™ forecourt system. Powered by a global collaboration with FuelQuest Inc., a leading provider of on-demand fuel management solutions, the Fusion forecourt platform can now address and help retailers manage logistics and better monitor their fuel supplies. These new fuel management services provide insight into overall security of supply, including data to alert retailers to fuel losses due to theft, leaks, adulteration or other causes. Fuel retailers all over the world will now have the option to monitor, manage and replenish their inventories via an advanced, cloud-based system that enables accurate, real-time control over the entirety of their www.npnweb.com n NPN Magazine The PDQ ProTouch Series just became a more formidable force in the friction in-bay automatic car wash industry. With the introduction of the ProTouch ICON, PDQ is now capable of offering another option to meet all of your soft-touch in-bay automatic needs. The ProTouch ICON is a new three-brush gantry-style system that offers superior aesthetics, a larger wash envelope, next generation brush control precision, amazing illumination packages and revenue generating features that are synonymous with all PDQ car wash equipment. The ProTouch ICON was engineered to deliver incredible cleaning results using several "industry first" innovations that are unsurpassed by any other gantry-style rollover on the market today. PDQ Manufacturing Inc. — De Pere, Wisc. — www.pdqinc.com MyTankInfo MyTankInfo is a cloud-based, hardware-enabled, software solution designed for the management of bulk fuel at fueling facilities. Cloud-based applications live on the Internet rather than on your local computer. One major advantage for you as a user is that you can access those applications wherever you are, via your Internet connection (PCs, iPads, Mobile phones, etc.). Cloud-based solutions are a way to add capabilities with immediate results without investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new software. In applications where your site has an automatic tank gauge we install a small, low cost proprietary hardware device at your site. One side plugs into your ATG's RS-232 port and the other into an available Ethernet port on your Internet router. Based on a hourly schedule, this device "pushes" your information to our servers. The benefits are huge, no modems, no phone lines, no switch boxes, no IT projects, all the while keeping your network secure. 4thRight Technologies — Olathe, Kan. — www.mytankinfo.com NOVEMBER/December 2013 15