Designing of wireless sensor nodes for providing good quality drinking water to the public

Abstract

Industrialization and urbanization in India have caused heavy environmental pollution. Most of the surface water had been polluted due to the environmental influence. Providing better quality drinking water to public is also a challenge due to pollution in the ground water and contamination even during distribution. Thus, it is very necessary to have adequate methods and equipment for water protection and drinking water quality measurement is an important aspect for the purpose. The protection of public health is an imperative and the potential of millions of severe effects from water contamination is not unrealistic. There is a need of In-situ monitoring, instant collection and calibration of data rather than manual collection of samples and testing. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has paved its significance into various applications. Although manual monitoring of water quality has been done, it requires a lot of labor, time and equipment. So, there is a need to develop a robust and reliable smart system where a real time monitoring of parameters of water quality for different water distribution tanks is done all the while. In this paper, Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) in a predefined Wireless Sensor zone using Zigbee Technology is implemented. Water Quality can be accessed in practical systems through the sensors which send the water quality data to the base station. Now a days, Renewable energy power generation is playing a main role in which Solar power is widely used. Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Controller improves the efficiency of Solar Power System. In this paper, a flexible, reliable Wireless Senor Network (WSN) based method of monitoring the quality of water with maximum power point tracking controlled solar PV system is developed.