DESIGN OF SMART WATER METERING, FLOW CONTROL AND QUALITY MEASUREMENT USING IOT COMMUNICATION

Abstract

India can face a shortage of potable and fresh water in the near future. Coherent, efficient, and low-cost
methods to monitor water usage are crucial to prevent this alarming issue. Measurement of water usage
accompanied with monitoring the purity of water can result in saving of water. In this paper an IoT based
complete water flow monitoring system with some added features (Internet of Things) is proposed here.
The entire setup is developed using Wi-Fi enabled microcontroller which consists of various sensors and
actuators e.g. hall effect sensor, pH sensor, TDS sensor, solenoid valve, etc. Hall effect sensor is mainly
used to measure the water flow whereas pH and the TDS sensors are used to measure the purity of water.
The solenoid valve is used to control the water supply. To meet the need for fresh and drinkable water a
novel solution is proposed in this paper which is based upon cloud based IoT (Internet of Things)
network.