| dc.description.abstract | RAHA Beverages Company (RABEC) is one of the banana wine production companies that utilize fuel in
steam production in Arusha-Tanzania where fuel data conditions like temperature, pressure, discharge, fuel level, and
gas leakage with humidity were a challenge to monitor them which provoked boiler malfunction and plant breakdown.
Today, RABEC manually uses a dropping stick into the fuel tank to monitor fuel data conditions which is time consuming and gives inaccurate readings, inefficiency, fuel economy discrepancy, and accidents. This study aimed to
design and develop an IoT-based fuel monitoring system. The flow meter, ultrasonic level, thermistor fuel temperature,
humidity, and pressure sensors were used to gather fuel information where GSM module was employed to send fuel
data messages to the operator’s phone. An AT mega 328 microcontroller was used to process and analyze the fuel data
and send them to the Thing Speak IoT platform using Wi-Fi connectivity. The results showed that when the fuel level
was less than the threshold value, an operator was alerted by a refilling message via GSM technology. At 0.1Psi
pressure, fuel temperature of 120℃, and 80% humidity, the system notifies the operator by an alert message to check
injector pressure and if the fuel-air mixture was perfect. In addition, these data were observed on LCD and ThingSpeak
webpage. To conclude, the developed system proved the best performance with a 99.98% of success rate with high
accuracy, security, and efficiency rate compared to the current monitoring system | en_US |
