Abstract
Water is a precious need of our lives. Due to the rapid population and urbanization, water usage monitoring is a significant problem facing our society. One solution is to control, analyze, and reduce the water consumption of the houses. The emerging of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept lately in our lives has offered the opportunity to establish water usage-efficient smart devices, systems and applications for buildings and cities. Many studies have suggested designing an IoT-based smart meter system; however, the IoT sensor node has limited studies, especially in battery life. Therefore, this study aims to implement and analyze an efficient data collection algorithm for IoT-based smart metering applications in consideration with energy consumption. The system items used are Arduino Uno, Wi-Fi-ESP8266, and water flow sensors. The applied algorithm is an efficient data collection algorithm for water meter (EDCDWM) to reduce the number of packet transmissions. Arduino performed this system’s implementation, while the simulation and analysis performed by MATLAB R2019b. The average percentage of energy saved by the applied algorithms of EDCDWM absolute change; and EDCDWM with relative differences in all nodes are around 60% and 93%, respectively.
Highlights
In many countries, water conservation is becoming increasingly necessary as countries face a widening gap between the ever-decreasing water availability due to climate change and the rising demand for population growth
The Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart water meter built in this research allows reading the meter without physically entering each house periodically
Energy saving was achieved through reducing the amount of data collection and transmission using the EDCDWM scheme
Summary
Water conservation is becoming increasingly necessary as countries face a widening gap between the ever-decreasing water availability due to climate change and the rising demand for population growth. The IoT-based smart water meter built in this research allows reading the meter without physically entering each house periodically This was accomplished using the Arduino unit, which continuously monitors and records the water flow sensor's readings in its memory. The user and www.ijacsa.thesai.org (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol 12, No 8, 2021 the service provider would be able to display and read the consumed water along using this smart water meter. Via such a comprehensive record of events, the service provider can keep track of the trend of water use, allowing better and efficient forecasting and management of use.
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