Internet of Things (IoT) for Water Quality Monitoring and Consumption Management

Abstract

This paper describes the design, development and implementation of an IoT-based water consumption metering and water quality monitoring System. Water is one of the natural resources found in nature and an essential part of life. Two of the major issues related to consumption of water, especially in Bangladesh are, huge amount of water waste due to lack of proper water management system and another one is poor quality of the drinking water. From the perspective of Bangladesh, the drinking water quality has been a huge issue but there are very few to no ways to monitor the quality of the water that is being consumed by the people. In this paper, we have proposed a solution to the problem by developing a mobile smart water metering system and integrated water quality monitoring where the quality of the tap water in households is constantly measured in real-time and can be monitored using a web/mobile application. In the meantime, the daily/monthly consumption of water is measured and recorded in the database for billing purposes. The daily consumption record is the key to decreasing water wastage. Our system will be able to reduce unnecessary water wastage by consumption metering and ensure the quality of water by quality monitoring. The metering, monitoring, bill payment, etc. are done remotely, and online using the Internet of things (IoT). The proposed solution integrates the IoT, hardware and software which results in healthy/safe drinking water and reduces water wastage which contributes to the sustainability of the environment.