PumpLocal · offline AI for gas stations
Johnny Bodegas
AppBuildersPH Hackathon

Power out, signal gone: nobody checks the shift.

  • Province brownouts: frequent and long
  • Weak internet signal
  • Cloud apps stop when either goes
  • Fuel and cash gaps go unchecked
  • JCB Gas Station · Sto. Niño, South Cotabato
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Brownout

Power out for hours

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No signal

Mobile data drops

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Cloud app: can't connect

Sales and cash not checked

Station owners in the provinces: the cloud stops when the power or the signal goes

Why local AI?

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Works offline

Brownout or dead signal? The shift still closes.

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Data stays here

Sales and cash never leave the station.

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No cloud cost

No per-use fees on thin fuel margins.

On an 8 GB Mac: Apple Vision OCR reads a photo in about 2 seconds · Gemma 3 4B via Ollama writes the Taglish answers.

How it runs at the station

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Staff phones

On their own batteries. Snap pump screens and receipts, log sales, do the closing count

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Wi-Fi router

Local network only. No internet needed

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Mac mini

Proposed for the station. Always on. Runs PumpLocal and the AI

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One small UPS: Mac mini + Wi-Fi router

Brownout? Staff phones keep working on the local Wi-Fi. No internet needed

Also works: a laptop on battery + a power bank for the router · syncs to the owner when internet returns

What's next

  • Sync to the owner when the internet is back
  • Utang ledger: who owes, who paid
  • Per-nozzle tracking
📴 Wi-Fi OFF

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PumpLocal runs locally on the station's computer.
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