Fuel Monitoring System in Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai: Diesel Records for Paddy and Rice Trucks

Begin with the people, because a fuel monitoring system in Khairagarh-Chhuikhadan-Gandai only helps when the right person reads it. Picture a rice-mill family near Chhuikhadan that runs its own trucks for paddy collection and rice dispatch. The owner worries about money. The dispatch clerk worries about which truck can leave for Rajnandgaon next. The accountant worries about pump bills. Trakzee Premium allows extra user logins, so each of them reads the same diesel record under a separate password.

The owner's habit is a short daily scan on the phone: any sharp falls overnight, any refill that looks larger than a tank could hold, and a weekly table of litres per truck. When one paddy truck begins to use more than its partner on the same purchase-centre circuit, the owner sends it for a check of tyres, filters and injectors before raising it with anyone.

The dispatch clerk works with the live map and the levels side by side. Before loading milled rice for Durg or Raipur, he can see which truck has diesel for the round trip and which must stop at a pump first. If an alert comes in while a truck waits at a purchase centre, he sees the exact spot and rings the driver while the queue is still moving.

The accountant's tool is the refill log. Every rise in the tank carries a date, a time and a number of litres, so each pump slip can be matched or questioned. At month end, consumption and mileage per vehicle sit beside the bills in one file. Three people, three logins, one set of figures: the monthly argument over whose numbers are right tends to disappear.

The purchase-centre truck. During procurement, a truck shuttles between farm gates near Gandai and a purchase centre, then on to a mill. The queue at the centre lasts three hours one day and six the next. The fuel graph shows gentle slopes during those waits and steeper ones on the road. Over a fortnight the owner sees how much diesel each extra hour of queueing costs, a figure that helps when talking with the mill about scheduling.

The rice lorry to Raipur. A lorry loads milled rice at Chhuikhadan and delivers it to a trader in Raipur by way of Rajnandgaon and Durg. It refuels once in Rajnandgaon. The record shows that fill as a climb with time and place, the litres used for the whole trip and the hours spent unloading. The owner compares the trip's diesel with the freight earned and with the next five trips on the same route.

The college bus. A bus hired for an arts festival at the university makes repeated runs between the Khairagarh bus stand, guest houses and the campus over three days. Distance is small, but the bus idles between runs. The record shows litres per day for the hire, which helps the operator bill sensibly and plan the next event with real figures rather than a guess.

The tractor. A tractor near Khairagarh ploughs in the rains and hauls paddy in autumn. Its diesel goes into slow field work, so the sensor's litres between refills and the tracker's engine hours matter more than kilometres. Comparing two tractors over the same week shows whether one is simply working harder or needs a mechanic. Tractor tanks vary, so a photo comes first.

Take the rice lorry from Chhuikhadan. Its tank is a steel box hung on the chassis, with the filler at the top. During fitting, an opening is made in that top face, and a probe is let down into the diesel and trimmed so that it stands just short of the floor. From then on it stays there, partly covered by diesel, with no float and no moving part.

The probe senses capacitance, which rises and falls with the length of probe surrounded by fuel. A head on the probe converts that into a level, and the level goes to the Teltonika FMB920 in the cabin, by wire for Omnicomm and by Bluetooth for Mercetech and Mielta Fantom. The tracker adds its own knowledge of position, speed and ignition and sends everything through the Airtel SIM to Trakzee Premium.

In the app, the lorry is a marker on the map with a fuel graph. At the mill the graph is high. On the road to Rajnandgaon it slopes gently downward. A fill there shows as a sharp rise with time and place attached, and a sudden fall while the lorry is parked shows as a drop and triggers an alert. Trakzee also builds daily and trip reports for mileage and consumption, viewable on a phone or a computer.

None of this means litres until calibration. On fitting day the executive matches the probe's readings with known amounts of diesel in that tank, so the graph shows litres instead of raw values. A new tank, a welding job or a removed probe means calibration must be redone, so tell BearTech before any such work.

BearTech's figure is about 95% accuracy on a sound tank after proper fitting and calibration. That is accurate enough to steer decisions about a fleet, but it is a working guide, not a laboratory instrument. Four factors move it: slope, sloshing, the shape and condition of the tank, and the quality of the diesel. Knowing them heads off false alarms.

Paddy country has its own versions of each. Tractors stand tilted on field bunds, trucks park on the uneven ground beside purchase centres, and farm roads turn heavy in the monsoon so that fuel sloshes hard. The graph wobbles while vehicles move over such ground and shows odd levels when they stand at an angle. Neither means diesel has gone. On a flat, dry road the line steadies again.

Tanks and fuel also matter. A dented or patched tank, an odd shape, or water and sediment at the bottom can pull the reading off. Coverage is a separate point: the tracker reports over Airtel, and if a vehicle crosses a weak patch towards the Madhya Pradesh border or the Kabirdham side, the live view pauses until the signal returns. That pause is a network gap, not a fuel loss. In harvest weeks, crowded yards make tilted parking more common.

The practical rule: judge refills and falls from readings taken when the vehicle is parked on level ground, before and after the event, and treat the moving graph as rough. Wireless sensor batteries wear out and are outside the warranty. And because BearTech does not accept returns, refunds or exchanges, send tank details and a photo before ordering. A few minutes on the phone beforehand avoids a wrong order.

BearTech has no setup in this district. It works from Bhopal and has been in vehicle tracking since 2014. For an order here, an executive travels from Bhopal to the spot where your vehicles stand: a mill compound near Chhuikhadan, a transport yard in Khairagarh, a farm near Gandai. You pay the travel and stay, and BearTech names that amount before you order.

The package arrives in about 2 working days, stock permitting, and the visit is then set for a day when the vehicles can stay still. During procurement the trucks are hard to spare, so a day before or after the peak often works better. Keep the vehicle on site with the top of its tank reachable, wipe the area around the filler clean, keep the registration papers and the tank photo you shared at hand, and have someone there who knows the vehicle and who should receive alerts.

The executive inspects the tank, chooses the probe length, makes the opening, cuts the probe to depth and seals it. The FMB920 is wired into the vehicle and paired with the sensor by cable or Bluetooth. Calibration converts readings into litres, the vehicle is added to Trakzee Premium, and logins are handed over and tested with you. You see the live level on your own phone before the executive leaves.

If you have several vehicles, line them up for one visit, which keeps travel to one journey. Full payment is taken at fitting, and a token-amount COD route is available outside Bhopal. For questions after the visit, the support line is 99937 84035, and for new orders or quotes, 97526 44035 on call or WhatsApp.