Industrial Gases & Cryogenic Systems worked example

Customer Tank Telemetry ROI with installed telemetry investment of 32,500 $: a worked example

Here is what the math looks like when conditions slip. We hold every other input steady and drop installed telemetry investment to 32,500 $, then walk the calculation through step by step. Estimate payback for customer tank telemetry from installed system cost, annual delivery savings, and annual monitoring support cost.

The inputs for this scenario

  • Installed telemetry investment: 32,500 $ (the input this scenario stresses; the baseline uses 65,000)
  • Annual delivery and service savings: 36,000 $ / yr (held at the documented default)
  • Annual telemetry support cost: 7,200 $ / yr (held at the documented default)

Working through the calculation

  • The calculation starts from the formula this tool documents: Net annual telemetry savings = annual delivery and service savings - annual telemetry support cost.
  • Customer tank telemetry payback period works out to 1.13 yr at these inputs, and this is the headline figure for the scenario.
  • Net annual telemetry savings works out to 28,800 $ / yr at these inputs.
  • Installed telemetry investment works out to 32,500 $ at these inputs.
  • Five-year net telemetry benefit works out to 111,500 $ at these inputs.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where installed telemetry investment sits at 65,000 $ and the headline result is 2.26 yr, this scenario comes in 50% below the baseline at 1.13 yr.
  • The practical read: the gap between this scenario and the baseline is entirely attributable to installed telemetry investment, so recovering it is worth quantifying in dollars before considering equipment or staffing changes. It is a simple, undiscounted payback; it ignores the time value of money, sensor failure and churn, and the avoided cost of a single safety-critical runout that telemetry might prevent.

Results at a glance

  • Customer tank telemetry payback period: 1.13 yr (headline result)
  • Net annual telemetry savings: 28,800 $ / yr
  • Installed telemetry investment: 32,500 $
  • Five-year net telemetry benefit: 111,500 $

Run it with your numbers

  • To rerun this with your own numbers, open the live Customer Tank Telemetry ROI calculator, set installed telemetry investment to your actual value, and adjust the remaining inputs to match your operation.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.