Fuel Tracking System for Trucks

Abstract

In today's technology wireless communication devices with Bluetooth have started to take an important part of daily lives and is rapidly growing. At this point researches are made about the low power consumption of the devices fast and secure communication. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ensures these requirements and is developing day by day to provide a low-energy and low-cost solution for the Internet of Things (IoT). Nowadays in-vehicle electronics technology is becoming essential with respect to customer needs. According to claim report results of one of the reputable automotive manufacturers indicates that the crucial expectation of prospects and customers is to have safety electronic systems and following up the status of the car remotely. Due to this reason consumer electronics and internet of things (IoT) technologies are depending on the assessment of needs. In order to follow up status of car remotely Bluetooth Low Energy technology (BLE) and acceleration sensors are widely used in vehicle electronics. In this study a prototype fuel level control system is implemented using wireless sensor networks via BLE. The fuel level sensor is placed into the fuel tank to collect the data at rest the vehicle in parked positon and engine off. Fuel levels are measured inside the fuel tank for the different scenarios. If an abrupt change occurs in the fuel level the users is informed via vehicle tracking system. The current work aims processing data locally transmitting via Bluetooth Low Energy and reporting the output data. The results/outputs of the system implementation are evaluated statistically with experimental design.