Fraud Detection and Monitoring of Water Tankers using IoT

Abstract

During the water crisis, water supply through tanker is a common scenario in India. Most of the time, Government hires private tankers on contract basis to distribute the water and pays them based on the number of trips. It is observed that the tanker contractors show fake trips and fraudulently charge for it. To avoid so, roster is maintained which has entry for each trip. Yet this is not sufficient to control the malpractices. It might be possible that, from the source, the entry for the tanker trip is made in roster but there is no guarantee that tanker will reach to the specified destination. In between the tanker driver can sell that water to someone else. Sometimes the tanker reaches to the desired destination but in between half of the water is sold. Thus, the intended beneficiaries don't get enough water. Many times, muddy and contaminated water is being distributed which may lead to many health issues. Thus, there is a need of some automated mechanism using which Government officials can keep track of tanker movement, check the quantity and quality of the water. This motivated us to come up with IoT based solution which comprise of various sensors to collect the data such as GPS location of tanker, level of water, pH and turbidity value of water. This data is stored over a cloud and made available through a web application. This way the Government officials can get consolidated report as well as alerts if any malpractice is carried out.