The Robust Study of Deep Learning Recursive Neural Network for Predicting of Turbidity of Water

Abstract

Water treatment is an important process, as it improves water quality and makes it better for any end use, whether it be drinking, industrial use, irrigation, water recreation, or any other kind of use. Turbidity is one of the fundamental measurements of the clarity of water in water treatment. Specifically, this component is an optical feature of the amount of light on scatter particles when light is shined on a water sample. It is crucial in water reservoirs to provide clean water, which is difficult to manage and predict. Hence, this study focuses on the use of robust deep learning models to analyze time-series data in order to predict the water quality of turbidity in a reservoir area. Deep learning models may become an alternative solution in predicting water quality because of their accuracy. This study is divided into two parts: (a) the first part uses the optical bands of blue (B), green (G), red (R), and infrared (IR) to build a regression function to monitor turbidity in water, and (b) the second part uses a hybrid model to analyze time-series turbidity data with the recursive neural network (RNN2) model. The selected models’ accuracies are compared based on the accuracy using the input data, forecasting level, and training time. The analysis shows that these models have their strengths and limitations under different analyzed conditions. Generally, RNN2 shows the performance regarding the root-mean-square error (RMSE) evaluation metric. The most significant finding is that the RNN2 model is suitable for the accurate prediction of water quality. The RMSE is used to facilitate a comparison of the accuracy of the sampling data. In the training model, the training data have an RMSE of 20.89, and the testing data have an RMSE of 30.11. The predicted R-squared values in the RNN2 model are 0.993 (training data) and 0.941 (testing data).