Automated Fuel Filling Station and Vehicle Monitoring

Abstract

Nowadays, almost all petrol pumps have a micro controller to control the electrical pump, drive the display, determine the flow & accordingly turn OFF the electric pump. But a person is still required to collect the money. Our project is intended to eliminate this human interaction so that there is no need of workers to fill up the petrol. In this project petrol bunks are using the petro card system for filling petrol in every vehicle. In this system every user is provided with a smart petro card, with which individual can access petrol at the petrol bunks. Ahead of using this card, we have to recharge it. Whenever we want to fill the tank, then we have to lay the Petro card in the card reader, which is interfaced to the microcontroller with serial interfacing. The microcontroller reads the data from the smart card reader and asks how many liters you need, which will be displayed on the LCD screen. Then we have to enter the requisite number of liters of petrol through keypad which act as an input to the microcontroller. After interpreting this value the microcontroller will check for the existing balance in the smart card, if it is adequate then the petrol filling process will be started. After filling the essential quantity, a buzzer will indicate the process of completion. In our project another one feature is vehicle monitoring. Using this facility we can monitor the vehicles. Each Petrol bunk contains RFID reader which is continuously reads the number plate (RFID Tag) of the all vehicles. If anyone of the vehicle is related to crime events this system automatically sends the information to the nearest police station via SMS. Before that, Crime activity information about the particular vehicle is pre stored in the system using GSM Communication.