In India, fuel theft from commercial vehicles costs the industry ₹5,000+ crores annually. Fleet operators have almost no visibility into their tanks. Existing solutions were expensive enterprise systems or unreliable aftermarket setups.
Architecture Overview
FuelShield is a complete IoT ecosystem spanning hardware sensors, ESP32 microcontrollers, and a Next.js dashboard.
System Architecture
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Ultrasonic Sensor
ESP32 Node
GSM Module
Firebase Cloud
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We used MQTT for low-overhead communication and Firebase for real-time data persistence. The result? A system that detects siphoning in under 1 second.