International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056
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An IOT based Water Supply Monitoring and Controlling System
Kusuma S S
1
, Anil G N
2
1
P.G. Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BMSIT&M Bangalore, Karnataka, India
2
Associate professor, Department of computer science and Engineering, BMSIT&M, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Abstract - In this project, we are focusing on continuous and
real time monitoring of water supply in IOT platform. Water
supply with continuous monitoring makes a proper
distribution so that, we can have a record of available amount
of water in tanks, flow rate, abnormality in distribution line.
Internet of things is nothing but the network of physical
objects embedded with electronics, sensors, software, and
network connectivity. Monitoring can be done from anywhere
as central office. Using thingspeak as free server data
continuously pushed on cloud so we can see data in real time
operation. Using different sensors with controller and
raspberry pi as Minicomputer can monitor data and also
control operation from cloud with efficient client server
communication.
Key Words: raspberry pi, Arduino Nano, water level sensor,
flow sensor, GSM, relays, motors.
1. INTRODUCTION
According to recent survey, water has become a big issue
because of less rain fall, increase in population many cities
are facing this problem people have to suffer from this
problem they don’t have sufficient amount for their daily
needs. Due to lack of monitoring water can’t be supplied
properly, some areas in city get water while other some
areas can’t so, there is a need of continuous monitoring,
water supply scheduling and proper distribution another
problems are excessive consumption, overflow of tanks,
leakage in pipeline, interrupted water supply. Water is a
basic need of every human being everyone has to save the
water many times with lack of monitoring, overflow of these
overhead tanks can occur because of this lots of water get
wasted, another thing because of overflow in the pipelines
with more pressure there is possibility of pipeline damage,
leakage detection is one more problem all these problems
are because of lack of monitoring, manual work, less man
power. Before implementing this project I have taken a
survey of Bangalore city to understand water supply
distribution and related problems with the system, after
taking a survey I observe that all the work is manual and
need a better technology to make proper distribution. By
focusing on problems in traditional methods our system
design and develop a low cost embedded system device for
real time monitoring of water distribution system in Internet
of things (IOT) platform.
IOT is a world where billions of objects can sense,
communicate and share information , all interconnected over
public or private Internet Protocol (IP) networks. These
interconnected objects have data regularly collected,
analysed and used to initiate action, providing a wealth of
intelligence for planning, management and decision making.
The Internet Of Things (IOT) is the inter-networking of
physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected
devices" and "smart devices"), buildings, and other items
embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators,
devices many more and network connectivity which enable
these objects to collect and exchange data. In 2013 the Global
Standards Initiative on Internet of Things (IOT-GSI) defined
the IOT as "a global infrastructure for the information
society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting
(physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving
interoperable information and communication technologies"
and for these purposes a "thing" is "an object of the physical
world (physical things) or the information world (virtual
things), which is capable of being identified and integrated
into communication networks". The IOT allows objects to be
sensed or controlled remotely across existing network
infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct
integration of the physical world into computer-based
systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and
economic benefit in addition to reduced human intervention.
When IOT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the
technology becomes an instance of the more general class of
cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses
technologies such as smart grids, virtual power plants, smart
homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities. Each thing
is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing
system but is able to interoperate within the existing
Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IOT will
consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020. These devices
collect useful data with the help of various existing
technologies and then autonomously flow the data between
other devices. Current market examples include home
automation (also known as smart home devices) such as the
control and automation of lighting, heating (like smart
thermostat), ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) systems,
and appliances such as washer/dryers, robotic vacuums, air
purifiers, ovens, or refrigerators/freezers that use Wi-Fi for
remote monitoring.
2. RELATED WORK
The setup has a water tank, which is filled with a help
of a tap. The pipe is connection to solenoid valve or flow
control valve and water flow sensor. The Raspberry PI
controls the Solenoid value by turning it ON and OFF. If the
solenoid valve is set ON (ON signal sent by RASBERRY
PI).The water flow through the valve else if it is set OFF (OFF