Abstract
Maintenance of water resources through collection of water followed by laboratory analysis, is a key factor in the measurement of water quality. The main difficulty for water collection and analysis is the logistics of the process, since the collections are often made by mall boats in very distant aquifers, applying manual processes, and are sometimes based on few samples. In this paper, the development, construction, and implementation of a robotic airboat to measure water quality in lakes has been described. The airboat was developed in the form of a mini-boat, in a fiberglass structure, whose interior housed a battery, a Raspberry Pi mini-computer, a Wi-Fi router for connection to a notebook, tablet or cell phone, and sensors connected to the Arduino platform. The airboat was validated in two lagoons in Fortaleza, and in a reservoir in the city of Pacatuba. The results were collected with the purpose of analyzing the parameters of each lagoon. The main contribution of this work was the development of an autonomous system of acquiring water parameters from several points of the lagoon.
Highlights
Water scarcity and quality are very issues discussed often in society, because they have been affected by the degradation caused by human beings—unrestrained pollution and its misuse in the world as a whole
The traditional process of monitoring water quality is basically composed of two steps—a manual collection of water samples at each time interval and laboratory analysis [3]
Pereira condominium and Condominium Villa Verde, is presented and discussed; both of which are are located in the Cajazeiras neighborhood of Messejana, Fortaleza/CE, beside the Piripau weir, located located in the Cajazeiras neighborhood of Messejana, Fortaleza/CE, beside the Piripau weir, located in
Summary
Water scarcity and quality are very issues discussed often in society, because they have been affected by the degradation caused by human beings—unrestrained pollution and its misuse in the world as a whole. Still, these issues are always in evidence because, 71% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, only 2.5% is freshwater, as highlighted elsewhere [1]. The use of water by mankind depends on the acquisition, treatment, and distribution. In this context, it is important to search for alternative forms of water acquisition for consumption, such as rainwater [2]. The traditional process of monitoring water quality is basically composed of two steps—a manual collection of water samples at each time interval and laboratory analysis [3]
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