Centralized automation of petrol bunk management and safety using RFID and GSM technology

Abstract

This paper implements the “Automation” of the filling fuel at petrol bunk using RFID and GSM technology. The transactions are made customer friendly i.e., it has the ease of operation at customer's fingertips with customer's smart phone. For automating this process, each customer is provided with a petro card just like a debit card. A petro card reader is installed at the bunk. The petro-card is swiped on the petro-card reader provided. On swiping, the information is prompted at each step, like password and quantity of petrol in litres. The authentication of the password and checking for sufficiency of balance available for payment is done. If both are fine, the fuel filling gets initiated automatically through the fuel pipe connected to the pump. After the exact quantity of fuel, that is entered by the customer is reached, the pumping of fuel gets stopped. In case of wrong password, error message is thrown. Petro-card is recharged with money just like SIM card. In case of low balance amount in the card, online recharge facility is provided to customer, through his smart phone, by just sending SMS to the recharge center GSM module at the bunk. In addition to automated fuel filling, level and smoke detection are also done in this proposed project. A level senor is used to detect the fuel level in the petrol tank and “Low Fuel Level” message is sent to the bunk owner's cell phone. A smoke senor along with buzzer alarm is installed at the bunk, to detect accidental fire. An “smoke detected” alert message is sent to bunk owner's smart phone.