FuelDispensing Using RFID

Many industries as well as transport companies own large fleet of trucks for transporting the raw materials and finished product periodically from production units or ware houses to distribution or storage points.Hence in the process frequent refueling of the trucks at fuel station are required.Some of these companies have installed fuel stations in their own yards to provide easier access to the fuel to their fleet of trucks.

Driver takes the truck to the fueling station and authorization is based on personal identification of the driver , it creates the scope of misuse as the identification is based on personal relationship.It is difficult to track which truck goes to which fueling station and whether refueling was necessary at that moment.there is sufficient time lag between the event of occurrence of such misuse and its knowledge to management.

Manual Gasoline Dispenser

RFID enabled fuel dispensing unit can be installed at the fuel filling stations.Similarly RFID tags can be fitted in trucks.As the truck approaches the filling station unit RFID reader can recognize the authenticity of truck and allow or deny the fueling.Once the fueling is over the pump shuts and information about the truck such as (truck number, type, drivers id)  and fuel dispensing information such as(amount filled, date, time) is relayed immediately to concerned offices of both trucking as well fuel dispensing company which helps in keeping the track of truck being filled.

RFID Enabled Fuel Dispenser

Advantages of using this RFID technique in fuel dispensing are :

• Fuel station can be unmanned as identification is  based on RFID tags and not personally.
• Faster, secure authorization at the filling stations.
• Real time track of trucks and fuel filling informations helps in optimizing operations.
• Billing errors can be minimized as it enables daily reporting between the trucking and fuel supplying company.

Future Scenarios:

 This application can be extended to automated filling and dispatching of chemicals in the chemical tankers by the chemical manufacturing companies.chemical manufacturing plants can then carry on their loading and dispatching operations with minimal manpower and can ensure right quantity of chemical is filled and entire information with time is recorded in batch controller and transmitted to central control system.