| dc.description.abstract | RAHA Beverages Company (RABEC) is one of the banana wine production companies that utilizes fuel in steam produc-
tion in Arusha-Tanzania, where fuel data conditions such as temperature, pressure, discharge, fuel level, and gas leakage
with humidity were a challenge to monitor, 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 the GSM module was employed to send fuel data messages to the
operator’s phone. An AT mega 328 microcontroller was used to process and analyse 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 thresh-
old value, an operator was alerted by a refilling message via GSM technology. A pressure of 0.1psi, a fuel temperature of
120 ℃, and 80% of humidity, the system notifies the operator by an alert message to check the injector pressure and if
the fuel–air mixture is perfect. In addition, these data were observed on the 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 |
