Smart Water Quality Monitoring and Metering Using Lora for Smart Villages

Abstract

Water is the basic need and elixir of life. Our daily water supply is through water tanks and dams which are constructed to store water for future usage. From there water crosses many stages through pipes to reach our homes. At each level, source water is prone to mix and get polluted from the environment and humans. Excessive water overflow and pollution are the major cause of the depletion of water. The objective of the work is to monitor water quality, distribution, usage in Potable water and Chemical leakage detection in rivers, etc using M2M-LoRa. LoRa is a new type of wireless connectivity in the unlicensed 433MHz and 868MHz used for long-range transmission upto 15Kms. The proposed work is mainly for Smart Village Projects. The LoRa mote along with sensors will be placed in water tanks (200 locations) at villages and within corporation limits. The system will continuously monitors the quality and level of water in all tanks and displayed in a common place where the entire water distribution system can be controlled from one place. The distribution system saves the water and monitoring system controls the distribution of polluted water. Finally, the potentiality of the smart meters for water distribution is discussed.