The need for driveoffalert.com.au comes from a perceived lack of police follow-up on fuel theft in recent years.
The ever-growing fuel theft problem was obvious to our client, a petrol station owner, who saw this as a business opportunity. “Police don’t like to chase up petrol theft anymore, we need a common database.”
Together we identified the key factors and designed a solution to tackle the issue utilising Cloud & Mobile technologies.
The Drive off alert application is created for Australian service stations to combat fuel theft. With its unique and patented data analytics, it helps petrol stations prevent drive offs and manage non-payments. Here are some of the features we created:
The easy to use reporting feature allows petrol station managers to readily create a police report within a user-friendly form.
‘Failure to pay’ can be made into a shared alert for customers who drive off. Retain the record, then cancel the alert when payment is received as customer incentive.
We integrated search functions with state databases to allow users to identify cars that don’t match their plates, and as a result are likely to have been falsified.
Fully-integrated ANPR with drive-off alert system which provides efficient and highly accurate licence plate recognition.
This enables instant look-up with results indicating any past incidents in the database.
Since building the DOA platform, Victoria Police have also found the database’s police portal a valuable collaborative tool to identify stolen cars via petrol station camera footage.”
Mal Bandyala
“A big thank you to the Idea Box team for all the hard work they have put in building our mobile and web solution. Despite being a very challenging project the team worked extremely hard to come up with solutions and overall we very happy with the final product which is a great asset to our business - keep up the great work.”
Mal BandyalaDirector
