A Smart Android Based Fuel Price Monitoring System

C. Fiossi¹ , A. C. Ameyaw² , D. Banuoku³ , I. Yemeh⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.8 , Issue.6 , pp.38-42, Dec-2020

Online published on Dec 31, 2020

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Abstract :
Fuel products have become essential commodities and the most popular source of energy used by automobiles in Ghana and around the globe. In Ghana, the consumption of fossil fuel energy increased by 33.7% from 1995 to 2014; hence, several fuel and gas stations keep spring up daily across the country, with each selling at a different price. The difference in prices leaves consumers in a search mode, looking for the affordable price among the several stations with a locality. However, the number of these station within the same city makes it a challenge for the consumers to know the fuel prices at the various fuel stations and patronise the same product and buy it at their desired price. Therefore, this study seeks to design and develop an Android-based fuel stations application that will enable customers to view all the available fuel prices of the various fuel stations in the Bono region of Ghana conveniently and reliably. The application is intended to present the prices of daily fuel products available at these fuel stations to help users buy their preferred fuel products at the desired station based on the available prices. The developed application offered a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI), speed and accuracy, time effectiveness and reliability.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Fuel-price-Ghana; Mobile-based, Android; Graphical User Interface

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