Proceedings of the Third International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC 2019)

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IoT Based Handy Fuel Flow Measurement

Pavan Manjunath1, Pritam Gajkumar2
1
Ph.D, Scholar in Computer Science, Jain University, Bangalore
2
Ph.D, Department of Computer Science, Jain University, Bangalore

Abstract— the adoption of the newer technologies for Internet of Things (IoT) embedded sensors from the
measuring the fuel flow into the vehicle fuel tank is a very multiple source system. This data set values are utilized
feasible option, and gives accurate values without tampering for the business requirement analysis.
the value count of the fuel flow’s digital data values. With
the help of digital measurement sensors the proposed
In this paper, we are proposing to measure the flow of the
Internet of Things (IoT) based fuel flow monitoring system
helps to obtain a precise level of fuel count. This research flue using ultrasonic flowmeter, this can give an accurate
paper provides an overview of the IOT based fuel flow measurement and used for measuring the natural gas and
digital measurement sensors, by sending the real-time inputs petroleum liquids, as shown in figure 2, the ultrasonic
to user mobile, about how much petrol or diesel flow is
pumped into vehicle tank. Therefore, it is not necessary that flowmeters use sound waves to regulate the velocity of a
user should depend on the petrol pump digital machine fluid flowing in a pipe [8]. The Internet of Things (IoT)
display unit, for gauging the fuel flow into the fuel tank of ultrasonic flowmeters are inter-connected with the cloud-
the vehicle. These devices will always act as a lightweight
computing infrastructure (or) big data, and the user
portable device and the user can carry these lightweight
portable devices anywhere and at any time. mobile device. It allows the user to get the actual fuel
flow instantly on the user mobile, and for the further
Keywords— Internet of Thing, IoT fuel flow sensors, IoT research process on this paper, with respective to the
measurement sensor, Sensors, Automobile fuel gauge, Fuel
gauge sensors, Flow meter, Lightweight portable fuel gauge. security model [9], and data movement or machine-to-
machine interaction Internet of Things (IoT) [10] as well
as on the data spoofing [11] can be carried out. The data
captured via different petrol station can be masked using
INTRODUCTION
block chain [12] concept (or) some other security model.
By following such a strict security model concept, the
As the technologies are evolving day by day, and most the
older methods are being replaced with the newer data cannot be manipulated by the third party person.
technologies in the market. It shows that the Internet of Only the trusted data are transferred to the government
Things (IoT) sensors and devices are playing vital role in organization, for further detail analyses of these data set,
collecting real time data, and these data values are if any misappropriation of the fuel gauge alteration is
transferred over to the mobile devices instantly [1]. The done (or) any fraud is done, based on the analyses
Internet of Things (IoT) allows a large number of outcome, then government agencies can cancel the
different and various end systems [2] and subsystems
licenses of the petrol bunk.
sensors to transfer the data and loading the transferee data
into the cloud computing database (or) big data database
as per the business requirements. The achievement of the
Internet of Things (IoT) requires high-performance,
feasibility, efficiency, and scalability; this can be achieved
by the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) with Cloud
computing [3] or with the big data domain. The cloud
computing is an environment, where both data storage and
data processing operate outside of the mobile device [4],
it allows us to save the cost of storing of the data because
we are not managing hardware and software as shown in
figure 1 [5].

The cloud based database, permits to access tremendous

multiple resources and gives quick data report graphics
[6], these can also be achieved via big data [7] , the big
data is a pool of data set gathered from the multiple

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Figure 3: Fuel gauge flow indicator meter [7]

Figure 1:- Glimpse of the cloud computing and Internet of

Things(IoT), connected with the multiple devices.

Figure 4: Traditional Leeds based indicator flow meter

Figure 2:- Glimpse of the Fuel flow in the petrol pipe.

PROBLEM STATEMENT Usually in old car dashboard system, the correctness of
the fuel level measurement great significance was
In most of the developing nation (or) the old vehicle, considered, but in latest car dashboard system will play
the fuel gauge indicator are just a pointer indicator as the vital roles and the digital values, which are displayed,
shown in figure 1 as well as in the figure 2. such as old should be accurate at to the point and feeling of the
system makes humans too difficult in judging the amount dashboard should be customer friendly [13].
of the fuel filled into the fuel tank of the vehicle, by the
petrol pump operator, and the fuel gauge indicator usually
PROPOSED METHOD
is not user friendly as compared to the digital fuel gauge
indicator in the new designed system of the 21sth century.
Even few times, if the fuel is less in the vehicle fuel tank, In our proposed concept, we are not dependent on the
usually it has seen that fuel gauge indicator givens the interior car dashboard fuel gauge indicator to measure the
wrong reading inputs. flow of the flue to vehicle tank, as the accurate
measurement is done by handy Internet of Things (IoT)
based clamp-on flow meter sensor, which can be easily
mounted on the flue flow pipe as shown in figure 6.

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CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK

The existing fuel gauge devices fail to accurately

measure the value of the fuel pumped into the vehicle
tank. Our proposed Internet of Things (IoT) fuel gauge
sensor device will come into hand, when user wants to
precisely measure the amount of the fuel flow into the
vehicle tank. In our future work, we will integrate this
Internet of Things (IoT) clamp-on flow meter sensor for
further analysis of the data set values, and simultaneously
extract the inputs measurement values from inner fuel
Figure 5: IOT Based Clamp-On Flue Flow Meter Sensor tank. Another advantage is, we can add more Internet of
Things (IoT) sensors to check the quality of the fuel,
where it will give greater inputs to the customer.
In our proposed concept, the data captured from clamp-
on flow meter Internet of Things (IoT) sensor, input Our main aim is to develop a cost-effective and handy
digital data values is feed into the cloud computing, for automation process to measure the fluid level. In our
further data processing and visualization (or) directly send research paper, we have achieved minimal possible errors
the data to user mobile device. The clamp-on flow meter and correct accuracy in the fuel measurement.
Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are less expensive, Eventhough this device is smaller in structure, it can be
compare to other devices in the market. The user can get used effectively in the petroleum industries.
the real-time inputs directly on his mobile set, and these
data can be used for the big data analytics, to perform
analyses on the different petrol buck station [15]. These
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