Real-time tank level monitoring for water and oil tanks

A tank checked by hand tells you its level at that moment and nothing about the days in between. We fit a wireless sensor that reads it continuously and alerts you the moment a tank runs low, overfills or starts losing volume — water, oil, fuel or process, every tank on one dashboard.

It is a straightforward retrofit. A wireless, battery-powered sensor is matched to whatever the tank holds and fitted to an existing access point — no cabling, no downtime, nothing changed about how the tank works. From there the level is read continuously, every tank reports to the same dashboard, and you run one critical tank or several thousand across the country exactly the same way.

IoT Technologies real-time tank level monitoring — a retrofit wireless level sensor on water and oil storage tanks with a live dashboard showing level, low and high limits and trend

How it works

How it works

A simple retrofit

The sensor fits to an existing access point, runs on its own battery and reports wirelessly. There is no cabling to install, no downtime, and nothing changes about how the tank operates. Move it whenever the tank or the site does.

Low, high and rapid-drop limits

Each tank gets its own thresholds and a rule for sudden losses, so you are warned about a tank running dry, overfilling or draining unexpectedly — not just about a number being out of range.

The right sensor for the contents

Water, heating oil, diesel, chemicals, effluent — the sensor is matched to what the tank holds, so very different tanks all report dependable readings to the same screen.

Every tank in one place

One dashboard for the whole estate, alerts routed by site, area and team, and a timestamped history of usage, refills and losses for every tank on it.

We do not touch how your tanks fill or empty. A sensor on each tank reads the level continuously and reports it to one dashboard, where every tank is visible at a glance. Set a low and a high limit, add a rule for sudden drops, and the people responsible get an alert the moment a tank crosses one.

The problem with a manual dip is not accuracy — it is frequency. A tank read once a week gives you fifty-two readings a year and no idea what happened between them. A water tank can draw down faster than it refills, an oil tank can lose volume overnight, a process tank can creep toward an overflow, and every one of those plays out in the gap between two readings that each looked perfectly normal.

A wireless sensor removes the gap. It reads the level continuously and sends it back over the air, and because it is chosen to suit what the tank holds, the readings hold up whether you are measuring potable water, heating oil, diesel or a process chemical. It runs on its own battery and needs no wiring, so fitting it is a short visit rather than a project, and it can be moved if the tank or the site changes.

You set the limits that matter for each tank: a low level, a high level, and a rate of drop that should not happen on its own. Cross one and the event is logged with a timestamp and pushed to whoever is on cover — by email or SMS, routed by site, area or team so it lands with someone who can act rather than in an inbox nobody watches. The full history sits behind it, so when an alert fires you can see exactly how the level got there.

None of this changes as you grow. One tank and ten thousand run on the same hardware and the same dashboard, each with its own limits and its own routing. The sensors are inexpensive and last years on a battery, so there is no capital case to build and nothing to rip out — you add monitoring to the tanks you already have and leave everything else alone.

What you are left with is a continuous, recorded picture of every tank's level sitting over the assets you already run. It works with your existing gauges and your delivery routine rather than against them, and it gives you two things a dip never could: an alert the instant a level moves, and the history to explain why.

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The gap between checks

A weekly dip leaves six and a half days unaccounted for.

Most sites read their tanks by hand on a round, which captures a single number and misses everything either side of it. A slow loss, an unusual draw-down or a developing fault is not visible until the next check, by which point it is a problem rather than a warning. Continuous monitoring keeps the whole curve in view, not just the dots.

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Alerts that reach someone

A tank heading for empty should call you, not wait to be found.

When a level crosses its low or high limit, or falls faster than it should, the alert goes straight to the people responsible, routed by site, area and team. A tank running dry or filling past its safe point gets dealt with while there is still time to do something — order a delivery, close a valve, send someone out.

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A record worth having

Every reading kept, so the trend is there when you need it.

Each tank builds its own timestamped history. That gives you a usage and refill pattern to plan deliveries against, a clear picture when you are chasing an unexplained loss, and the evidence behind any decision to act on a particular tank.

Deployment route

Getting your tanks onto live monitoring

A clear path from a conversation about your tanks to the whole estate on live monitoring — what each tank holds, where the sensors go, the limits and routing, and the rollout.

It is a practical, low-disruption process. We start with the tanks and the levels that matter, fit and configure the sensors, set the thresholds and decide who gets told, prove it against real conditions on a few tanks, then roll it out across the rest.

Discuss

Go through the tanks, what they hold and their safe levels, who needs to know when one moves, and how cover works.

Tank brief

Survey

Check each tank, the sensor fittings, mounting and gateway placement, and the radio coverage across the site.

Site profile

Retrofit

Fit the sensors, then set up the limits, dashboard and alert routing for each tank.

Sensors fitted

Prove

Run it on a few tanks first to confirm the readings, limits and alerts all behave before scaling.

Pilot proven

Scale

Roll out across the rest of the estate, with status, alerts, reporting and history in place.

Estate rollout

Got water, oil or process tanks across one site or many?

Book a site survey

Where it applies

Built for sites where a tank's level matters and nobody is watching it round the clock

Water storage & break tanks

Keep stored and break-tank water in range, with warning of a tank drawing down toward empty or filling toward an overflow before it stops a process or floods a plant room.

Heating oil & fuel tanks

See oil and fuel levels in real time, so deliveries are planned rather than guessed and an unexpected overnight drop — often the first sign of a leak — does not go unnoticed.

Process, chemical & effluent tanks

Hold process, dosing and effluent tanks within their working range, with high-level and rapid-drop alerts going straight to the team that owns them.

Multi-site estates & FM

Every tank across every site on one dashboard, each with its own limits and routing, and a single history for each team to work from.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is real-time tank level monitoring?

It is wireless level sensing retrofitted to water and oil tanks that reads level continuously and raises an instant alert the moment it crosses a low, high or rapid-loss threshold — so a tank running dry, overfilling or losing level is known immediately rather than at the next manual dip.

What kinds of tank can be monitored?

Water storage and break tanks, heating oil and fuel tanks, process, chemical and effluent tanks, and bunded or buried tanks — anywhere a level needs to stay within a safe band. Sensors are selected to suit the medium and the tank, so the same approach covers a potable water tank and a heating-oil tank alike.

Does installation require wiring?

No. The sensors are battery-powered, retrofit to the tanks you already run and can be moved as the estate changes, so monitoring follows the tanks that matter rather than the cable routes.

How are tank level alerts handled?

Each tank has its own low and high limits and a rapid-loss rule. The moment level crosses a limit or drops faster than expected, an alert is raised and routed to the right team with escalation if it is not acknowledged.

Can it flag a leak or unexpected loss?

A sudden or out-of-hours fall in level is surfaced immediately as a rapid-loss alert, which is often the first sign of a leak, a failed valve or unexpected draw-off. It is a best-endeavours indicator from the level trend rather than a guaranteed security or leak-detection system.

Can it scale from one tank to a whole estate?

Yes. The same architecture runs a single critical tank or thousands of tanks across a national estate, with every monitored tank on one live dashboard.

Ready to see
every tank level

on one dashboard?

Tell us what the tanks hold, their safe levels and how many sites are involved, and we will put together a practical pilot to get the estate onto one view.

Location

Aylsham Business Park, Norwich

Norfolk NR11 6FD · VAT GB 409644484

Talk to a monitoring engineer

Tell us about the tanks, what they store, their safe high and low levels, your sites and how alerts need to reach your teams. An engineer will review it.

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