Pump pressure: How Nawgati is helping drive fuel efficiency for consumers and fuel station owners

For Vaibhav Kaushik, interning at an organization in 2019 meant common rides in Ola or Uber between his home in Larger Noida and workplace in Sector 63, Noida.

That is when he began noticing one thing troubling. Each time he handed a CNG station, there have been at all times lengthy queues of autos ready to refuel. “It made me take into consideration how a lot money and time folks wasted simply standing in these strains and the way a lot they may save in the event that they knew about different close by CNG stations with shorter queues,” says Kaushik.

A cab driver, on one among such rides, talked about he might have earned a minimum of 10% extra every day if he did not must waste time ready in line for gasoline. “That dialog sparked a realisation. What if we might use our technical expertise to resolve this drawback? That was the eureka second for me,” says Kaushik.

He shared his concepts together with his pals and now co-founders, Aalaap Nair and Aryan Sisodia, and the trio determined to tackle the problem. “None of us had any prior expertise within the fuel-tech business, however we had been enthusiastic about fixing real-world issues with expertise. This led to the muse of Nawgati in 2019,” says Kaushik.

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Nawgati at present affords a set of progressive providers and merchandise designed to reinforce the fuelling expertise for each gasoline station homeowners and finish customers. “Aaveg is our vertical SaaS platform tailor-made for gasoline stations. It supplies a complete retail operations dashboard that shows real-time information on station actions. This consists of transit occasions, wait occasions, serve occasions, attendant density, and useful resource utilisation. Aaveg helps gasoline station operators handle congestion, monitor compliance, and automate forecourt operations, leading to improved effectivity and profitability,” says Kaushik, 26.

For customers, the Nawgati Gas Discovery App is designed to enhance the patron fuelling expertise. It helps customers discover close by gasoline stations and verify gasoline availability, costs, and facilities. The app’s real-time information permits customers to make knowledgeable selections for fuelling up on the go, saving time and decreasing the trouble of lengthy queues.

The corporate additionally has a billing app that streamlines the method for gasoline stations, making certain correct and environment friendly transactions. “It integrates seamlessly with current POS techniques on the gasoline stations and supplies detailed billing experiences, serving to stations handle their funds higher and scale back pilferage,” says Kaushik.

Nawgati’s clientele consists of main fuel firms and gasoline suppliers that profit from its expertise to optimise their operations. “We have now established partnerships with main business gamers resembling Indraprastha Gasoline Ltd (IGL), Mahanagar Gasoline Ltd. (MGL), and several other others. Our providers are additionally extending to new markets as we broaden into Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities throughout India,” says Kaushik.

Nawgati makes use of real-time CCTV footage and deep studying algorithms to watch congestion and compliance at gasoline stations. The Aaveg platform supplies a digital illustration of every station, permitting operators to see congestion ranges, handle workforce deployment, and guarantee compliance with operational requirements, serving to scale back wait occasions and bettering the state of congestion in entrance of the gasoline station. “We offer wait occasions through APIs to the apps operated by fuel firms, together with IGL Join and MGL Join, the place the customers can select the station as per the space and wait occasions,” says Kaushik.

Making lives simpler
Nawgati addresses a number of crucial points inside the fuelling sector, primarily specializing in decreasing congestion and bettering compliance monitoring at gasoline stations. The standard fuelling course of entails lengthy queues and inefficient operations, resulting in vital time and income losses. By offering real-time information and actionable insights by way of our platforms, Nawgati helps gasoline stations handle their operations extra successfully, minimise ready occasions, and improve the general buyer expertise. This not solely boosts the effectivity of gasoline suppliers but additionally ensures that customers have a smoother, extra handy fuelling course of.

Aside from this, Kaushik says Nawgati has invested in making the lives of gasoline suppliers even simpler by eliminating the guide checking of hydrotest validity for every car that drives in for refuelling. “Nawgati put in a real-time hydrotest validity verification system that helps to determine which autos are permitted for fuelling or not, thus decreasing incidents as a result of spurious cylinders at retailers,” says Kaushik.

Nawgati has skilled vital progress since its inception. Nawgati was initially supported by BITS Pilani’s incubator and funded beneath MeitY’s TIDE 2.0 scheme. Presently, we’ve got been capable of elevate further funds from MapmyIndia, All in Capital, GAIL beneath their PANKH initiative, and Shark Tank buyers.

The corporate has deployed its edge gadgets at greater than 250 stations in Delhi and Mumbai areas and is within the technique of onboarding over 2,000 gasoline stations in Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities over the approaching yr. “Our current deployments are reside with IGL, MGL, Torrent Gasoline, JioBP, and petrol pump sellers of IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, and Nayara. We plan to broaden additional into different Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities and finally into Tier 3 cities,” says Kaushik.

“Whereas working at my gasoline pump, I stored listening to from a whole lot of customers in regards to the Nawgati fuelling app. This bought me curious, so I made a decision to study extra in regards to the firm and found that it had appeared on Shark Tank. I instantly reached out to the founder and requested to register us on the app. After becoming a member of, we noticed a rise in our gross sales by 200% in simply 60 days of being listed on the Nawgati App. I’m grateful to Nawgati for making a platform that helps customers to search out stations like ours, and permits us to not solely handle buyer evaluations but additionally increase our gross sales,” says Shubham, the proprietor of Shubham Petroleum in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

Nawgati’s journey, nevertheless, has not been simple. “Initially, we confronted vital challenges in convincing gasoline firms and stations to undertake our expertise as we had been nonetheless new and upcoming on this area. The gasoline and power sector in India nonetheless requires vital digitalisation, so there was a pure hesitation towards new, untested expertise. Nonetheless, we had been capable of exhibit the worth of our platform by way of profitable pilot runs and robust partnerships, which helped overcome these challenges,” says Kaushik.

Maintaining apart the challenges, the pilot runs with prime gamers on this area helped the corporate have a look at the issue from the within out moderately than observing it from the skin. “The pilot initiatives opened doorways for us to know the ache factors of the shoppers even higher and construct and take a look at options that will provide larger operational effectivity,” says Kaushik.