Cloud Based Real-Time Industrial Water Management Application for Tanks Using NI LabVIEW

Abstract

Water being an essential commodity is stored at several locations such as buildings, offices domestic households, hospitals smart homes and specifically in industries in tanks. Any place where individuals live and carry out life processes, water plays a major role. Ensuring the proper usage and non-wastage of water is an obligation on every individual. This water is generally used for cleaning, daily use, and surgical instruments, sanitizing in the case of the medical field, manufacturing products, and even cooling of heavy machinery. Such large-scale applications, especially in industries like dairy, wastewater disposal, manufacturing, and food processing, impose documenting the levels of water from various tanks to keep track of the water levels used, cost usage, and generate warnings in the occurrence of any water wastage. This necessitates a sophisticated user interface that is both interactive and effective, for both the industrialists and the labour force. This project puts forth a solution to this stipulation. It consists of a front panel that shows each of the water monitoring system's controls and indicators, a report generation system, and a cloud server that incorporates the entire industrial monitoring system allowing it to be accessed remotely from anywhere on the planet. The framework is built with a graphical programming tool that employs function blocks as well as API keys to connect the cloud to the user interface. LabVIEW is a powerful tool for implementing this device on a desktop or in an industrial water management interface. LabVIEW is a versatile platform that can be used for real-time applications and used in combination with numerous high-quality industrial equipment. The framework of this project is configured to take into account the date, period, and consumption hours with a daily and monthly overview of the different locations of the tanks, and is interpreted and extracted in a LabVIEW VI based on the information requested by the user. A report is produced for the entire time period and records the data over a month. In addition to this function, the device can be remotely supervised through the cloud, and the overflow of the water sends warnings to the user based on the threshold set to avoid excessive loss of water. According to estimates, introducing such a water management scheme has supported industries and households in minimizing their water use, and decreasing costs by three times, making it efficient for the owners, and the government while also ensuring environmental sustainability.