Direct Industrial Experiment and Theoretical Studies for Fuel Level Monitoring of Vehicles
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2019-10-30
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Nowadays, actual record of fuel filled and fuel consumption in construction vehicles is not maintained, it results enormous financial loss. Advances in technologies and availability of economical open source hardware systems are setting a new trend in system designing. Use of technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) can ease the process of data collection and analysis. The main objective of the project is to describe a system which can monitor or track the location of the construction vehicles from a centralized place. System design will be generalized for monitoring different parameters like location, engine run hour, fuel consumption and many more. Proposed system uses open source sensor, controller in the back engine that support GSM or GPRS module for data transfer from remote location and GPS tracker to track the current location of those vehicles. There is huge amount of fuel theft usually happens from the vehicles nowadays. So, if the owners want to monitor the conditions of the vehicle by sitting at home such as to know the fuel level, to know the speed of the vehicle, then they can use this device. The device we wanted to make can solve those problems. In the device we used an Arduino mega which is connected with an accelerometer sensor (MPU 6050) and an SD Card module. In the Arduino mega we defined an analog pin(A0) and a digital pin (30) which is connected with the fuel line and the engine line of the particular vehicle. Then the ADC value and the values from the sensor we get from the Arduino is actually stored in the SD Card. After analysing the data, the fuel can be found. Our device is extremely cost effective, so the owners of any particular vehicle or any vehicle company can buy this device at a very lower price compared to the other fuel level monitoring device. It also improves the accuracy and the sensor we used in the device can be used in many different purposes.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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North South University