Fuel Monitoring System in Dharashiv: Diesel Records for Cane Trucks and Tuljapur Tempos

Tempo traveller on the Tuljapur run. During the Navratri fortnight an owner sends a twelve-seater from Solapur to the Tulja Bhavani temple twice a day. The driver fills at a roadside pump and reports the litres by phone. The fuel record shows each fill as a step up with its time and place, and the owner can see that the second trip of each day used noticeably more diesel because of long idling in temple traffic. Nothing is wrong; the number simply explains the bill.

Cane truck in the crushing queue. A truck loaded near Kalamb waits nine hours outside a sugar factory gate, and its owner wants to know whether the engine ran the whole time. The ignition log from the tracker and the fuel line answer together: the level slid gently for the first two hours and then stayed flat once the engine was switched off. The record shows what a long queue really costs in diesel, truck by truck.

Pickup carrying Osmanabadi goats. A trader's pickup leaves before dawn for a weekly market and returns after dark. On one trip the level falls by more than the distance explains. The map shows the pickup parked at a village for forty minutes during that window. The owner rings the driver, learns that a few litres were lent to a neighbour's stranded tractor, and notes it down. The record turned a doubt into a short, settled conversation.

College bus from Omerga. A diesel bus brings students from outlying villages each morning on a fixed loop. Over a term its weekly consumption sits close to that of a sister bus on a similar loop, until one month it climbs. The trust sends it to the workshop, where a dragging brake is found and freed. The record first shows a rise in litres per kilometre, and the following month it shows consumption settling back to its usual line.

Take a cane truck with a long steel tank bolted under the chassis. During fitting, a small hole is made in the upper face of that tank and a probe is lowered in, trimmed so that it reaches almost to the bottom. The probe is capacitive: as diesel covers more or less of its length, its electrical reading changes. It has no float and no moving parts, which suits a truck that spends its winter bouncing along field tracks.

The probe hands its reading to the Teltonika FMB920 tracker in the cabin. With Omnicomm the link is a cable; with Mercetech or Mielta Fantom it is Bluetooth. The tracker already knows the truck's position, speed and ignition status. It packs the fuel figure together with those details and sends the bundle through an Airtel SIM to Trakzee Premium, where the calibration done at fitting converts raw readings into litres.

On the owner's phone the level appears as a number and as a line across the day. When the truck fills up at a pump on the Latur road, the line climbs in a clear step and the platform logs a refill with its date, time and place. When the truck waits at the factory gate with the engine running, the line slopes gently down. A sharp fall that ordinary running cannot explain triggers an alert.

Reports turn the same data into consumption per day or per trip, and mileage per vehicle. The phone app suits a quick look between other work; a computer screen is easier for comparing several trucks at once. Calibration belongs to one particular tank, so if the tank is replaced or the probe is removed and refitted, it has to be done again. Tell BearTech before any such change so the figures stay meaningful.

Start with one vehicle. The Complete Package costs ₹19,999 for the first year and covers the Teltonika FMB920 tracker, one fuel level sensor, fitting, a Trakzee Premium login, an Airtel SIM and a one-year warranty with AMC, plus GST. From the second year, renewal is ₹3,000 per vehicle per year, so one vehicle's running total is ₹22,999 after two years and ₹25,999 after three. BearTech also offers 2-year and 3-year plans at exactly those totals.

Now picture a Dharashiv owner with four vehicles: two cane trucks, a tractor and a tempo traveller used for Tuljapur trips. Year one is 4 × ₹19,999 = ₹79,996. Renewal for four vehicles is 4 × ₹3,000 = ₹12,000 a year. After year two the running total is ₹91,996, and after year three it is ₹1,03,996. These are straight multiplications of the per-vehicle prices, with one sensor on each vehicle.

One more cost sits outside these numbers. Because Dharashiv is outside Bhopal, the BearTech executive's travel and stay are paid by the client, and that amount is told to you before you order. Fitting all four vehicles in one visit usually makes more sense than four separate trips, so plan the order around a week when every vehicle is near town and not stuck in a cane queue.

Whether the expense pays back is something only your own records can answer. Set the three-year figure beside what the four vehicles spend on diesel in a normal month, and beside the hours lost to arguments over pump slips. If the records show steady, explainable use, you have bought clarity; if they reveal gaps, you have something specific to act on. No saving is promised either way.

An alert means the diesel level fell faster than ordinary running would explain. It is a prompt to look, not a finding against anyone. Before ringing anybody, open the vehicle on the map and note three things: where it stood, whether the engine was on, and what the level was just before and just after the fall. A screenshot of the graph at this stage saves time later.

Then rule out the plain causes. Was the vehicle parked on level ground, or tilted on a field edge or a ramp at a market yard? Had it just crossed a broken stretch where diesel sloshes? Was the tank opened for a filter change, or topped up from a can? If the line drops and climbs back within minutes, movement or tilt is the likely reason, and nothing more needs doing.

If the drop holds while the vehicle stands still, call the driver calmly and ask what happened at that place and time. Keep the last pump slip in hand so you can compare the refill on record with the litres billed. Many answers are ordinary: diesel lent to a stranded tractor, a weeping fuel pipe, a slip lost in the cab. Listen first, then check the explanation against the location history.

Write the outcome down: date, vehicle, place, what the driver said and what you decided. After a month the notes show whether falls are scattered or keep returning to one vehicle, one route or one parking spot. Share that summary with whoever pays the diesel bills. And remember the limits: the system records and warns; it does not lock the tank or physically stop anyone removing diesel, so keep yard rules and lockable caps alongside it.

BearTech is based in Bhopal and has no team in Dharashiv. When you order, an executive travels from Bhopal to wherever your vehicles stand, whether that is a yard in Dharashiv town, a farm near Tuljapur or a transport lot in Omerga. The client pays for travel and stay, and BearTech tells you the amount before you place the order. The package itself reaches you in about 2 working days, stock permitting.

Keep a few things ready for the visit. The vehicle must stay on site for the whole fitting, with the tank reachable and reasonably clean. Have the registration papers handy, along with the photo of the tank opening that you will already have sent when asking for a quote. Keep one person available who knows the vehicle's usual routes and can say who should receive the alerts.

On the day, the executive examines the tank and confirms the probe length. A hole is cut in the tank's upper surface, the probe is trimmed to the tank depth, then fixed and sealed. The tracker is wired in and linked to the sensor by cable or Bluetooth. Calibration follows, tying readings to actual litres, and the vehicle is added to your Trakzee Premium account.

Before leaving, the executive shows you the live level and how an alert looks on your phone. Full payment is due at fitting, though a token-amount COD route is available for orders outside Bhopal. BearTech accepts no returns, refunds or exchanges, so settle the sensor choice first. If several vehicles need fitting, list them in one message to 97526 44035 so they can be handled in a single visit.