Real Time Internet of Things (IoT) Based Water Quality Management System

Abstract

Abstract The rapidly transforming technologies and changing of people’s expectations triggered the fourth industrial revolution, commonly referred to as Industry 4.0. Water is the core resource and a vital for life of all species, as it is a limited resource that needs to be utilized efficiently. Monitoring various aspects of the water quality leads to a clear understanding of the aspects that should be considered for a healthy life and to avoid wastage of water. Using Internet of Things (IoT) should allow for the integration of real time monitoring and controlling of water quality. The suggested system utilizes Internet of Things (IoT) through using sensors to measure the water quality factors such as (pH, temperature and turbidity) for home applications. The system should allow for autonomous decision making for controlling the water quality factors such as (acidity, alkalinity, temperature and amount of total suspended solids expressed by cloudiness or haziness) measured by mentioned sensors within the acceptable limits and keeping records of the historical readings on a cloud based platform. The system will lead to real time data acquisition, transmission and processing of water quality data. This will give the ability to automatically react to the changes in the system outputs. Using Internet of Things (IoT) means the system can be accessed from anywhere through Internet, for example through a mobile application remotely. The objective of the system is to allow the water consumer in home to be able to judge the quality of the incoming water and to control it to the required levels. The system also utilizes the different filters used in home to enhance the water quality in an efficient way. As the filters will only be used once needed and not all the time. Utilizing such, a system should lead to improving the public health and the cost of controlling the quality of the consumed water. The system should eliminate the inconvenient and lengthy off line lab analysis of collected water samples. The system should provide a user-friendly interface with infographics and meters to illustrate the quality factors as Lower-Upper limits and the acceptable values. In addition, the system should provide an easy way for the configuration of the controllers and the communication with the sensors.