An Effective IoT based Fuel and Cost Monitoring System

Abstract

As vehicles count increases day by day, the fuel consumption is also increasing. With this tremendous increase in fuel consumption, fuel price is also increasing rapidly. By taking this as an advantage, fuel bunkers are stealing fuel and this cannot be noticed by users because we have no control over the machine. A monitoring system is required to track the fuel level. So, we are proposing a system that helps to indicate the quantity of fuel for the amount we have paid. A petrol level sensor that receives real time information about tank’s fuel level is used which is directly connected to the Arduino mega. A webpage is created to get the petrol cost. The page provides the user with an Admin username and password. The petrol cost is updated only through that webpage. Once the petrol cost is updated, then the IOT module used to receive the petrol cost and transmit it to the Arduino mega. For enabling the cost displaying feature, we have to provide a signal to the controller indicating the need for displaying the petrol cost that is to be added. Now once the switch is in pressed state, the 2.4 TFT display is used to display the petrol cost and when the key is denounced, the cost is reset to zero.

Smart tanks juice level monitoring system: a case study of Raha beverages company limited Arusha, Tanzania

“…Due to an increase in fuel consumption caused by an increase in the number of vehicles that consume fuel, the problem of fuel theft at petrol pumps has risen as a result of poor estimation of the level within the tank. Rosaline et al (2019) proposed a system to monitor the level of fuel within the tank by using a fuel level sensor, which collects the level of fuel within the tank and sends it to an Arduino mega. It is simple to know the current price of fuel and the volume of fuel to be put within the tank to avoid bunkers using IoT and a webpage established (Rosaline et al, 2019).…”

“…Rosaline et al (2019) proposed a system to monitor the level of fuel within the tank by using a fuel level sensor, which collects the level of fuel within the tank and sends it to an Arduino mega. It is simple to know the current price of fuel and the volume of fuel to be put within the tank to avoid bunkers using IoT and a webpage established (Rosaline et al, 2019). This system uses probe that can't be immerged into liquid that intended to be consumed by people because the probe can rust furthermore it uses Arduino Uno which is expensive and require external shield to be connected to the internet.…”