ABSTRACT

Public Refueling Station is a place where motor vehicles get refueling. Most Public
Refueling Stations are built in urban areas rather than in rural areas. This inequality makes
people who live in rural areas open business of gasoline retails. Purchase of gasoline retail is
only done in units of liter.

Module of mini digital Public Refueling Station enables people to buy fuel according to
the number of rupiahs desired. But the price of a set of mini digital Public Refueling Station
module is still considered as expensive. In order to solve the problem a design of equivalent mini
digital Public Refueling Station is made but with lower price so that the user can operate a mini
digital Public Refueling Station like the official Public Refueling Station.

The design consists of a microcontroller as the main controller. A keypad 4 x 4 is used as

the device to input the number of rupiahs and then displayed on LCD 20 x 4. A water flow
sensor is used as the counter for the volume amount of the fuel discharged. A pump is used to
flow the fuel. The on or off condition of the pump depends on the relay. The system works by
converting the number of rupiah input to become the amount of volume and then the amount of
input volume is compared with the output volume recorded by the water flow sensor. The pump
will be on when the output volume is smaller than the input volume while the pump is off when
the output is the same or more than the input volume. The range of the refill debit is obtained by
dividing the volume of the fuel discharged with the time of fuel refilling. The sensor to detect the
level of fuel is using motorcycle gasoline buoy which has been modified. The buoy detects the
level of fuel in the tank that will be received by the microcontroller and displayed on LCD 20 x
4.

Keywords : Public Refueling Station, water flow sensor