IoT based model for monitoring and controlling water distribution

Abstract

These days, because of increment in relocation from a provincial territory to urban ranges, the population in urban areas is obviously expanding quickly together with the requirement for comfortable living. With increase in population, urban areas have expanded, water becomes one of the major problems in a city particularly water distribution, interfered with water supply, water protection, water utilization and furthermore the water quality. To overcome water supply related problems proper monitoring and controlling system must be implemented. The developed system consist of different IoT devices like water pressure sensor, ultrasonic sensor, solid state relay switch, motorized electric water valve, Raspberry PI, GSM module and Arduino UNO micro-controller. This paper focused on the monitoring and controlling of water distribution using IOT based model. It aims to design and develop a low cost reliable and efficient technique to improve water distribution in the community. A prototype was developed to simulate the operation of a water distribution. Also, a web application was created as a front-end system for monitoring the status of the different pumping stations as well as controlling. Also, fuzzy logic algorithm was integrated into the developed prototype system to be more scientific in making decision. As a result, the experiment was successful and passed all the conditions set for monitoring and controlling water distribution using IoT based model.