Thursday, April 30, 2015

Inmetro proposed creating software for consumer monitor … – Zero Hour

The National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro) available for public consultation until 26 June 2015, a proposal for a regulation, unprecedented in Brazil, focused on pumps Gauge Liquid Fuels. The requirement provides a new generation of measuring instruments, which includes up to create a unique software that will allow the consumer has also the power of surveillance at gas stations.

Through the application store will be You can download a program for mobile, also created by technicians from Inmetro, which will provide consumers with a reliable supply of reading data. With this measure, he can check whenever supply if the values ​​shown on the pump display are correct or defrauded.

The proposal also includes the creation of fuel metering pumps with encryption, along the lines adopted in transactions with bank cards, which aims to curb the current found fraud. According to the report of tax Institutes of Weights and Measures State Institutes of Weights and Measures State (delegated bodies Inmetro), deceit happens in the “path” between the fuel volume measuring device and the display of the pump.

This software, developed by experts from Inmetro, will control the trajectory information from the volume measurement to the display of the pump

-. This completely new measure will inhibit fraud. There has never been in the country the use of cryptography for digital signatures herein and this measure will prevent the system can be altered, and allows citizens to participate in the trust instrument augmentation procedure – explains the director of Legal Metrology, Luiz Carlos Gomes.

With the opening of the Public Consultation for Fuel Gauge pumps liquids is expected that the entire fuel sector become more sensitive to the need of improving the reliability of the measured data on the installed equipment and systems for service stations . In addition, we expect positive impacts on combating tax evasion, fuel adulteration, and unfair competition and consumer fraud.

The theme Pumps Liquid Fuel Gauge was put on public consultation by Inmetro No. 181 of 26 April 2015. The document is available at Inmetro’s website to receive comments and suggestions until June 26, 2015.

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