Fuel Monitoring System in Rajkot: Diesel Level for Trucks and Tour Vehicles

Most diesel in a Rajkot fleet is bought away from the yard. A truck bound for Morbi fills on NH 27, a pickup working towards Gondal or Jetpur refuels wherever its driver finds a pump, and only some vehicles ever draw from stock kept at base. That spread makes the pump slip the only paper proof, and a slip alone says nothing about what actually reached the tank. Trakzee Premium supplies the other half through its refill entry, which notes when the fill happened and the amount the level climbed.

Compare the two in a simple weekly routine. Take the slips a driver hands in, find the matching rise on the platform, and write the litres from each side next to each other. With accuracy near 95 percent in ordinary conditions, the two figures will rarely match to the last litre, and diesel still settling after a fill can nudge the reading either way. Judge by pattern. A fill whose recorded rise is clearly smaller than the slip, repeated at the same pump or by the same driver, is what deserves attention.

Location helps. Because the tracker puts the vehicle's position beside the fuel reading, a refill arrives with a place attached. If a slip names a pump on the Gondal road while the platform shows the level climbing somewhere quite different, you hold a plain question with times on both sides. A slip with no matching rise deserves a polite enquiry, and so does a rise with no slip, which may only mean a fill from a drum kept at the yard.

Keep your claims modest. The readings serve your own checking, have no standing as a measurement in sales, invoicing or disputes, and exert no control over what happens at the pump. What you gain is a dated second record to set beside the paper one. Drivers who know every fill is logged may well hand in slips more carefully, and conversations about a doubtful fill become shorter when both sides can look at the same screen.

Expect a good indication, not laboratory precision. The figure BearTech states is roughly 95 percent, reached when conditions are ordinary and the fitting and calibration were done carefully. A tank that is dented, rusted, altered, dirty or fitted with internal plates the probe cannot clear will read less truthfully. Muddy or watery diesel, low-grade fuel and a calibration session where the tank was not filled or emptied as instructed will all drag readings away from the true figure. Mention any such issue before fitting.

Rajkot's roads add their own movement. Diesel sloshes under braking, on uneven approach roads into industrial estates and on sloping stretches, and the reading follows it. The district's hot summers, when temperatures sit between 42 and 44 degrees, sit inside the working range stated for the Omnicomm sensor, which is rated from −40 to +80 °C. Even so, treat the graph as a trend rather than a snapshot, particularly while the vehicle is rolling.

The network is the next limit. Your data travels over Airtel, and some rural stretches in Saurashtra have patchy coverage, so readings may arrive late or go missing for a while; BearTech cannot be held responsible for such gaps. Wireless sensors carry internal batteries and the tracker keeps a backup cell; both are used up over time and are not part of the warranty. If the yearly ₹3,000 renewal is missed, live fuel data can stop. Tampering, water, fire or repairs by anyone else also fall outside cover.

Last come the commercial limits. After fitting, nothing can be handed back, refunded or swapped, so raise every question before the order and choose with care. And the package is an information system, not a lock. It records and warns, yet a person determined to draw diesel from the tank is not blocked, and BearTech takes on no liability for fuel loss. If you want something that physically seals the tank, speak to us about what else is possible.

The same fuel data answers three different sets of questions in a Rajkot business. The owner asks which vehicles are costing more than they should, the dispatcher asks which vehicle can take tomorrow's run, and the accountant asks whether the diesel bill is backed by something other than slips. Trakzee Premium keeps one set of figures for all three, on the mobile app for Android and iOS and on the web screen, so nobody argues over whose spreadsheet is right.

The owner's view is the mileage and consumption report. Line up vehicles that do similar work, such as two foundry trucks on the same loop, and read how much diesel each used for the distance covered. A gap that persists for several weeks suggests a mechanical issue, a tyre problem or a difference in driving, all of which are cheaper to catch early. The same report, read month by month, shows whether a ageing vehicle is slowly becoming more expensive to run.

The dispatcher's view is live. The map shows where each vehicle stands, the fuel level shows whether it can take another run, and the trip and halt reports show how long it waited at a loading point. When a customer calls about a delayed consignment, the answer is on the screen. A drop alert is the dispatcher's cue to phone the driver, and the refill record tells the dispatcher, without a call, whether the vehicle filled up on the way.

The accountant's view is the refill list. Every entry shows a date, a time and the size of the rise, so it can be ticked against a pump slip, and the weekly total can be laid beside the mileage report to explain the fuel line in the books. Since readings are for monitoring and not a legal measure, treat them as a cross-check that tells you where to look, and keep the slips as the document of record.

Four parts do the work, and BearTech supplies all four. The first is the sensor, a slender probe lowered in from the upper side of the tank and shortened to suit it. It is capacitive, which means its electrical reading changes with the amount of probe covered by diesel. A foundry truck with a deep tank and a pump-dispatch pickup with a shallow one thus need probes of unequal length, going up to about 3 m, and the right length is picked once the tank has been looked at.

The second part is the tracker, a Teltonika FMB920. The sensor's number reaches it through the analog input in the wired Omnicomm case, or over Bluetooth for the wireless pair, and it attaches the vehicle's position taken from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou satellites. It accepts anything from 6 to 30 volts, so both 12-volt and 24-volt vehicles are covered, and a small backup battery sits inside. The same tracker is used whichever sensor you pick.

The third and fourth parts carry and show the data. An Airtel SIM, which BearTech provides and switches on, carries the reading and the position up to the platform. Trakzee Premium then draws a fuel level graph for each vehicle, marks refills, flags sudden drops and builds mileage and trip reports. You open it on a phone or on a computer, and the owner can give the dispatcher and the manager logins of their own.

On a Rajkot truck the graph tells a recognisable story. A loaded run out to Morbi uses diesel faster than the empty return, the graph steps upward when the driver refuels, and it runs flat through a long wait at a loading yard. Once you know what your own vehicles normally draw, anything that breaks the shape stands out. All of this suits diesel tanks that admit the probe from above; for any other kind of tank, ring us first.

Rajkot is a manufacturing city. The district profile counts 505 foundries, 303 makers of auto components, 325 machine-tool units, 375 units building diesel engines and pumps and 60 bearing producers, scattered across 16 industrial areas such as Lodhika, Aji GIDC, Bhaktinagar and Shapar-Veraval. Each of these sends or receives goods by road, usually in repeated short loops, and the diesel behind that movement is among the heaviest running costs a transport owner carries.

The highways stretch the picture. NH 27 is the road that joins Rajkot with Gondal, Jetpur and Morbi, a town about 60 km away that is famous for its ceramics. Other corridors run towards Porbandar, towards Kandla by way of Morbi and from Jetpur to Junagadh. Trucks on these roads spend hours away from the base and refuel at pumps the owner never visits, which is exactly where a recorded fuel level and a dated refill list make an owner's life easier.

Farming brings its own peaks. Groundnut, cotton and cumin dominate the district's fields, and once harvested the produce moves out of the villages towards the mandis and processing units. Light pickups and goods vehicles get hired in numbers then, often with drivers the owner barely knows. A fuel record per vehicle gives the owner a way to check how much diesel each hire consumed for the distance covered, without sitting beside the driver.

Passenger and tour traffic matters too. The airport at Hirasar, about 36 km away, was inaugurated on 27 July 2023, and Rajkot Junction, dating from 1890, adds to the pickups. Pilgrim and tour vehicles make for Khodaldham, Trimandir, Somnath and the Gir region, though the national park at Gir shuts from 16 June until 15 October, so tour activity rises and falls with the season. Diesel tempo travellers and mini-buses on such circuits are good candidates for a fuel record, while ordinary cars should be discussed with us first.

All three sensors cost the same in this package, so the choice rests on the vehicle and your own habits. Omnicomm LLS-AF 4 is the cable-connected choice: a wire runs to the tracker's analog input, the vehicle supplies the current, and the casing is sealed to IP69K and rated for −40 to +80 °C, with armoured cabling and probes up to about 3 m. For foundry and ceramics trucks that face heat, dust and rough yards for years, a wired sensor with no battery is a sound default.

Mercetech reaches the tracker by Bluetooth, so nothing needs to be run from the tank to the cab, while the probe itself still goes in from above. That helps on older vehicles with crowded wiring, or on pickups whose cab is awkward to open up, and it keeps the fitting neat when the tank sits far from the tracker. Its small internal battery is consumed with use and left out of the warranty, and for sealing and temperature details you can simply ask when you enquire.

Mielta Fantom is wireless too, speaking Bluetooth 5.0, and brings a long-life battery of its own, an IP67 seal, temperature and tilt sensing built in, and a steel flange bolted on at four points that works on metal or plastic tanks. It is set up with the Mielta phone app as well as tank calibration. A diesel tempo traveller or mini-bus on pilgrim and tour circuits is a good case to discuss, particularly when the tank material is not known.

You do not have to treat the fleet as one block. Each vehicle is priced as its own package of ₹19,999, and every sensor works with the same tracker and the same software account, so you may fit different sensors on different vehicles. Our team settles the final model and probe length once the tank has been examined, and a comparable model may stand in if your named one is out of stock.