Understanding Fuel Monitoring Solution
How to view Fuel Monitoring data through the All Vehicles Page?
The ‘All Vehicles’ page gives us real-time visibility of all the parameters associated with the vehicles and their movement. The vehicle status is categorised as moving, stopped, or idling.
For each vehicle on the dashboard, you can see the current fuel level of the vehicle. If the vehicle has ‘n’ tanks, then you can see the sum of fuel in all ‘n’ tanks combined.
Step 1 Click on the ‘Fuel’ button that shows the current reading. This will open a Fuel Analytics pop up.
Step 2: To view the full analytics page, click on the ‘Advanced View’ icon () next to the Vehicle Name. This will take you to the complete fuel data
How to view Fuel Monitoring data through the Live Track and History Page?
The ‘Live’ and ‘History’ sections under the ‘Vehicle Details’ page gives you visibility into the real-time and historic data of location, movement status, and all parameters of the selected vehicle. Additionally, you can view the current fuel level of the selected vehicle in the top section of the ‘Live’ vehicle details page.
Under the ‘History’ section, you can view all the refuelling alerts that were triggered, along with the location for the selected time range. You also get a map view for the same data to understand the sequence of events better.
Fuel Analytics Page
The Fuel Analytics page gives you information regarding the tank summary, driving metrics, fuel level trend, and more. You can also get accurate information on speed-distance, harsh driving, fuel and speed, total refuelled quantity, and total drained quantity.
The data is displayed according to the following default settings:
The date range is set to Last 24 Hours
The time interval is set to 5 minutes
You can change the date range from the drop down menu as per your requirements, and select a time interval of 5 mins, 15 mins, 30 mins, or 1 hour.
Explaining the Fuel Level Trend Graph
Each point in the Fuel Level Trend graph shows the average fuel level during a selected time and date interval. For example, the below image is of a vehicle’s fuel data over the last 24 hours. Each point on the graph shows the average fuel level at a 5 minute interval.
In the following image, the date range is set to ‘Last 7 days’ with a time interval of ‘1 hour.’ The values on the graph are the average fuel level for that particular time interval.
Note: If a refuel event takes place during a time interval, the average fuel data is not an accurate quantity metric to look at.
To get a more accurate comparison, it is recommended that you select a 5 minute interval for the respective date range.
Note: Refuel and fuel drainage events are calculated based on live data and averaged over a time period of 1 minute. Thus, the refuel and fuel drainage values are more than 98% accurate in most cases.
Clicking on the Speed toggle will enable the Speed data on the graph, which is also calculated as an average. For instance, if a vehicle moved at a speed of 100 kmph for 30 minutes and did not move for the remaining 30 minutes, the graph will plot 50 kmph when the time interval of 1 hour is selected. The following graph shows fuel and speed data at a time interval of 5 minutes for the last 24 hours as the selected date range.
To get the absolute speed of the vehicle, it is recommended that you select a 5 minute interval for the respective date range.
Fuel Alerts and Notifications
The Alerts module provides real-time alerts and notifications on your mobile and browser to help you become aware of any inefficient or alarming fuel drainage events almost instantly.
To receive notifications on refueling and fuel drainage events, you can subscribe to Refuelling and Possible Fuel Theft alerts from the Alerts module. These alerts will send real-time notifications to you every time the platform detects a stable and significant increase or decrease in the fuel level of the vehicle selected by you.
Fuel Reports
Understand movement of your vehicles, performance of your drivers, or any other subject that is important to you over time using the Reports module. LocoNav offers a wide range of reports which are system generated or can be customized by the user.
Some of the default reports generated for fuel monitoring are:
Daily Fuel Incidents Report: This report has the list of all refueling and fuel drainage events, location, and time of these events. This is shown for all the vehicles selected by you, in a date range set by you.
Refuelling Incidents Report: This report tells you the list of all refuelling instances, location, time, and the refuel amount (in litres) for the vehicles selected by you, in a date range set by you.
Fuel Drainage Incidents Report: This report tells you the volume (in litres), location, and time of a stable and significant decrease in the fuel level for the vehicles selected by you, in a date range set by you.
Vehicle Movement Summary Report: This report conveys the fuel consumed, mileage, distance travelled, movement duration, and stoppage duration for the vehicles selected by you, in a date range set by you.
Vehicle Summary Report: This report contains the fuel consumed, mileage, distance covered, running time, and stoppage time for the vehicles selected by you, in a date range set by you.
Fuel Consumption During Idling Report: This report tells you the amount of fuel consumed daily by the vehicles selected by you while idling. You can also see the idling duration for a date range set by you.
- OBD Based Fuel Report: This report tells you the fuel level reading at various locations for the vehicle selected by you, for a time interval and date range set by you. This report is generated only for OBD devices that send fuel data.
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