When we fill our vehicles with gas, the only indicator we have that the tank is filled is when the meter at the station says so. But how do we know that the fuel being entered into the tank is the exact amount of fuel that we paid for?
Engineers at IIMT University found in Meerut, India have asked the same question, but they did not take it sitting down. And instead, they developed a device that measures fuel pumped into the vehicle.
Called the Smart Fuel Level Indicator, it detects the amount of fuel entering the fuel tank.
It has a display unit, a micro-controller, and a fuel sensing unit, compacted into a device which fits any two-wheeler or four-wheeler. The device can sense both petrol and diesel with no requirement design for the fuel tank.
Source: Imgur
Similar devices have already been developed outside of India, but the 7-member research team said that it was first of its kind developed in the country.
“The idea of making the device came to me when the average fuel consumption of my bike started dipping although there was no problem with the vehicle,” said Ragib Khan, one of the researchers and assistant professor at IIMT.
“I thought that probably the petrol pump owners were not filling the correct amount of fuel and duping customers. The idea came to me some four months ago and our team of researchers started work on it in March 2017. Recently when I saw that UP police had cracked down on a fuel pilferage racket which used electronic chips, I sped up the project,” he added.
Another researcher, Sandeep Verma, explained about the device, “The amount [of the fuel] detected does not depend on the shape of the container. Also, there is no effect of temperature on the functioning of the device.”
Source: Times of India
