Umudike Journal of Engineering and Technology

This study investigated a microcontroller based fuel level sensing and controlling in a wired and wireless environment. Fuel Level management approach would help in reducing the industrial power consumption and as well as fuel overflow. Furthermore, it can indicate the amount of fuel in the tank that can support all fuel types including cellular data loggers, satellite data transmission systems for remote fuel monitoring system. An ultrasonic sensor was used to send signal and the rebounding signal received is used to measure the height of the fuel in the tank. The information received is analysed by the controller which uses the programmed codes to determine the actual fuel volume inside the horizontal cylindrical tank. This information is related to a GSM module which sends an SMS to the monitoring personnel. Moreover, cellular phones with relative high computation power and high quality graphical user interface became available recently. The user perspective is required to use such valuable resource in a mobile application. Finally, a web and cellular based monitoring service protocol was proposed that could determine and sense fuel level globally.