IoT is extensively used in everyday objects and its popularity is increasing day by day. IoT includes the design and development of IoT and mobile-based vehicle fuel activities such as real-time fuel monitoring and GPS tracking system.
The proposed IoT device measures the amount of fuel by using an ultrasonic fuel sensor. When the vehicle tank of fuel reaches a certain level, the driver gets a notification through a mobile application and also searches the nearest pump location for reloading fuel. The proposed system used GPS tracking for showing the current location of the vehicle and finding the nearest pump location.
The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals, or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.
Fuel-management systems are designed to effectively measure and manage the use of fuel within the transportation and construction industries. This information can be then stored in computerized systems and reports generated with data to inform management practices.
This enables consumption control, cost analysis, and tax accounting for fuel purchases. Modern vehicle tracking systems commonly use GPS technology for locating the vehicle, but other types of automatic vehicle location technology can also be used.
As fuel cost is rising constantly, people are facing fuel theft at petrol pumps. In that, vehicle owners do not calculate how much quantity of fuel need in a day or in a week.
Time is important for efficient goods transportation systems such as real-time tracking and reducing financial fuel loss of vehicles is rapidly increased. This can be overcome by using a real-time tracking vehicle system, such as a system that monitors the current amount of fuel via mobile application. The new driver does not know where is the nearest fuel pumps from his current location. This android application helps to find the nearest fuel pumps. A driver can easily target the nearby pump fuel and reach there a few times. Using this approach, a vehicle owner will help the user to monitor and control all of the vehicles from a remote location.
Fuel Monitoring - Ultrasonic Sensor
In the present situation, this project plays a vital role in vehicle activities. Nowadays, real-time fuel-filled and fuel consumption in vehicles is not maintained. For this kind of problem, when the driver starts filling fuel in the tank, the ultrasonic sensor gets activated and store data on the mobile application. Some of the drivers can drive without asking his vehicle owner. At that time, the driver used the vehicle for rental or personal use. By utilized the mobile application, the owner can trace all the vehicles in the same period, find very nearest fuel pump from the vehicle location, notify when fuel goes to a certain level.
The proposed vehicle activities monitoring system is reliable, easy to implement and user friendly, which keeps monitoring through the mobile application. Tracking vehicles has always been a problem with transport vehicles or cargo vehicles for big companies dealing. This project is useful for transportation companies. The private car owners also can be benefited from using the project.
The proposed system will provide an accurate and real-time fuel monitoring system. This is a suitable and practical solution for fuel monitoring and location tracking. Therefore this system can be implemented in every vehicle to avoid facing fuel theft, finding the nearest fuel pump and vehicle location. The driver used a central monitoring system to control all vehicles by using the mobile application.
