ZESA load shedding
Battery and solar backup keep every sensor online through the outage.
Station intelligence for Zimbabwe
Every litre,counted.
Live tank levels, theft alerts on WhatsApp and ZERA-ready reports. The dip stick retires today.
38.20
DIESEL · TANK 2
18,420 L68% full · 24.1°CWATER 4 mm
Stations are flying blind under their own forecourt.
2%
Unexplained stock loss commonly cited on poorly monitored sites. Industry benchmark, to be proven in our pilot.
Dip-stick guesswork
Every station in Zimbabwe still dips by hand. A 10 to 20 mm error is hundreds of litres on a big tank.
Short deliveries
Tankers drop less than invoiced and nobody can prove it.
Blackout theft
Fuel disappears during load shedding while CCTV is down.
Leaks and water
Unnoticed for weeks, damaging engines and soil.
Built for Zimbabwe, not imported.
Systems made for Europe assume stable power, fibre and new pumps. We assume none of it.
Patchy mobile data
Econet and NetOne dual SIM, 30 days of local storage, SMS fallback.
Mixed pump fleet
Gilbarco, Tokheim, Wayne, Tatsuno or a 1990s mechanical. We read them all.
USD and ZiG
Dual-currency sales, margins and cash-ups, with the day's rate on record.
Ethanol blends
Density tracking verifies E20 blend and flags adulteration.
WhatsApp-first
Alerts land where owners already are. Reply ACK to acknowledge.
From the tank to your phone in seconds.
0 s
Sense
Tank probes and pump controllers capture level, water, density and every sale.
RS-485 · pump protocols
Connect
4G gateway with dual SIM, battery backup and offline buffering. Nothing lost.
MQTT / HTTPS over TLS
Analyse
Hourly reconciliation, anomaly detection and AI forecasts across every station.
expected vs measured
Act
WhatsApp alerts, a live dashboard and ZERA reports in USD and ZiG.
under 30 seconds
One platform. 0+ signals. Nine domains.
The brief asked for tank level and pump outflow. The same gateway watches the whole station. Tap a domain.
Tanks 10 signals
Fuel levelFuel volumeUllageTemperatureVolume at 15°CWater at bottomDensityStatic leak testDays of stockHigh and low alarms
Your station
Expected vs measured, every hour.
opening stock + deliveries - sales = expected stock, vs probe at 15°C
2,600 L gone, zero sales
01:10 to 03:00, alert sent
Delivery short by 400 L
10,600 L received of 11,000 invoiced
PumpThree AI
Borrowdale site
THEFT ALERT · 01:12
Tank 2 diesel dropped 2,600 L with no pump sales.
Grid off. Reply ACK to acknowledge.
DELIVERY · 06:40
Received 10,600 L of 11,000. Dispute pack ready.
DAILY SUMMARY · 07:00
$9,482
6,120 L sold. Petrol runs out in 3.4 days.
Illustrative day, diesel tank 2.
Any tank. Any pump.Even the old ones.
Magnetostrictive probe
±1 mm level, water detection and five temperature points along the shaft. Our pick for every tank.
$800 to 2,500 per tank
Forecourt controller
Reads modern Gilbarco, Tokheim, Wayne and Tatsuno pumps natively.
$500 to 1,000 per station
Pulse retrofit
Older electronic pumps with no data port. A sensor counts each litre.
$80 to 200 per nozzle
Camera reader
Stopgap for mechanical pumps: a camera reads the counter.
$60 to 250 per pump
Keep your console
Already have a gauge console? We cable into it and read what it knows.
Cable only
Tanks are Zone 0 explosive areas. ATEX or IECEx certified probes and installers only.
Pick the protection you need.
Watch
Retire the dip stick.
$50per station, per month
Single sites that just want to see their stock.
- Live tank levels at 15°C, every 30 seconds
- Run-out forecasts and reorder dates
- Low stock, high level and water alerts
- Daily 07:00 summary on WhatsApp
- Log deliveries against invoices
- Up to 3 users, 3 months of history
Guard
Catch every missing litre.
$100per station, per month
Stations that want losses stopped.
- Everything in Watch
- Hourly expected vs measured reconciliation
- Theft and leak alerts in under 30 seconds
- Instant WhatsApp alerts with SMS fallback
- Delivery checks with ready-to-send dispute packs
- Pump and nozzle sales capture
- Up to 10 users, 12 months of history
Command
Run the whole forecourt from your phone.
$200per station, per month
Owners and groups with several sites.
- Everything in Guard
- Ask PumpThree, the AI assistant for your stock
- ZERA and ZIMRA reports, done for you
- Power, security and safety sensors: all 70+ signals
- Shift cash-ups in USD and ZiG
- Scheduled reports, API access, priority support
- Unlimited users, 24 months of history
10 or more stations: 10% off every station. 50 or more: 15% off. A one-off onboarding fee per station covers the sensors, gateway and certified installation.
What would it save you?
250,000 L
$1.50
1.0%
Fuel you stop losing
$3,750/mo
Guard costs
$100/mo
Hardware paid back in
1.9months
Saved per year
$43,800
Illustrative. Assumes about $7,000 of hardware per station.
From first survey to scale in six months.
Nov 2026
Survey
Two weeks. Tanks, pumps, power and signal mapped.
Nov to Jan
Pilot build
One station fitted, dashboard live, WhatsApp on, probes calibrated.
Feb to Mar
Prove value
60 to 90 days live. Losses caught in litres and dollars.
Apr 2027
Scale
1,000 stations on subscription.
Risks, and how we have handled them.
Tank charts wrong
Recalibrated at install, refined from delivery data.
Unknown pump protocols
Surveyed first. Pulse retrofit as universal fallback.
Installation safety
Certified Ex technicians, fire sign-off, closed hours.
Staff pushback
Framed as owner protection, with fair shift reports.
Data protection
Aligned with the Cyber and Data Protection Act.
Network outages
Local buffering, dual SIM and SMS fallback.
Supplier disputes
Temperature-corrected dispute packs, ready to send.
Proving the ROI
Every litre caught is logged in a loss and recovery report.
Real-time Africansolutions, builtat home.
ZS
Zen Sithole
Co-founder, commercial
DM
Dakarai Mshoperi
Co-founder, product and engineering
KS
Kudzanai Seremani
Co-founder, operations
Let's runthe pilot.
One station. Ten weeks. A clear report on every litre lost, and recovered.