Fuel Allocation And Lockout System Using Pic

In transport and Logistics business with the fierce competition, avoiding fuel theft through monitoring and management is a major concern in Africa. With the steadily increase in fuel price, fuel theft and fraud poses a serious threat to transporters’ operating profits. In this paper the development of a secure fuel dispensing system with a digital fuelling record book is presented for the use of fleet based companies. The proposed system prevents the refuel of unauthorized vehicles, notifies the owner any time a vehicle is refuelled, with information containing the vehicle name, date and amount of fuel dispensed into the vehicle. The vehicle identification is done by the use of low frequency radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags. A fuel lockout system is implemented to shut down the fuel pump. The system uploads the fuel data to a server in custom hourly intervals chosen by the user. The design flow and experimental results for a prototype system is presented.