Gas Station Fuel Storage Tank Monitoring System using Internet of Things

Abstract

This paper presents the development of a prototype of gas station fuel storage tank monitoring system using Internet of Things (IoT). In Malaysia, the current method to measure the fuel level in the underground tank is by using dipstick; which is inefficient and unsafe. The proposed monitoring system is automatic, gives real time reading of fuel level and fuel temperature in the underground storage tank collected from an ultrasonic sensor and waterproof temperature sensor. All the input values from these sensors are transmitted to an IoT platform called Blynk, through the medium of an open-source microcontroller board: NodeMCU. The fuel storage tank monitoring system alerts the users whenever the fuel is on low stock; or at a high temperature above 35°C. The proposed IoT-based system may help gas station operators to monitor the fuel parameters from anywhere via devices with internet connection. Efficient monitoring without physical presence at the local site can be achieved.

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“…An IoT-based system to monitor fuel storage tanks in the brewery industry has been proposed. The system utilized an ultrasonic sensor, Blynk application, and Node MCU but this method was limited to only can monitor 10 liters of fuel tank capacity and was unable to detect the fuel tank condition like humidity [16]. The current fuel monitoring system proves insensitivity, inefficiency, ineffective, and inaccurate for fuel data readings and fuel parametric conditions where the monitoring scheme persisted to employ a real-time monitoring system which is really inefficient and far less safe, as well as poorer production and compared to the sophisticated remote fuel monitoring system using IoT technology, as well as a high computational time and process for the network.…”