Water Tank Level Monitoring using Raspberry Pi
We introduce the notion of water level monitoring and management for lake water storage source for villages. More specifically, we introduced the raspberry pi as a controller for water level sensing and controlling in a wired and wireless environment.
Water Level management approach would help in reducing the time required for water allocation, the need for water in the summer season, drought and as well as overcome the wastage of water. Furthermore, it can indicate the amount of available water in the lake that can support Global Water types including cellular data loggers, GSM through data transmission systems for water management in the office. Moreover, cellular phones with relative high computation power and high-quality graphical user interface became available recently. From the users perspective, it is required to trace such valuable resource in a mobile application.
Finally, we proposed a web and Android mobile application monitoring service protocol would determine and senses water level to all people needed the information about available water in the tank. This application provides us with the ability to monitor and control the water consumption of the water tank at any time and from anywhere. The application was designed using the responsive framework in order to support a wide range of devices and screen sizes. A 3d scene of the whole building infrastructure was also developed and implemented in the application using the declarative abilities to react with mouse event clicks and to present in real time data information. The project also contributes to the decision-making functionality of the IoT infrastructure, introducing an intelligent controller developed and used for the characterization and detection of the water. The project presents the Raspberry Pi integrated infrastructure installed at the aforementioned premises but mainly focuses on the web-based client-side application that was developed for the remote real-time monitoring and control of the installed infrastructure.
The project was successfully implemented in the Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) in Mizoram to develop and upgrade the ever-increasing demand for water due to rapid growth in population as well as the vast scope of works in the field of Water Supply and Sanitation sector for better living standards of the people of the State.
The application is developed with open source technologies to provide both a modular and cost-effective solution. It is designed to inform the user of the current state of every component of the system, the water consumption, historical analytics of the water consumption, the ability to create watering schedules for the roof garden, etc. This framework also provides role-based functionality, recognizing the logged-in user and displaying a personalized web-view of the application and appropriate information.
Our ultimate goal is with the real-time enterprise web application to enable a new way on how big data of sensor networks are utilized and visualized. Definitely, with controlling and monitoring of grid networks become natural and user-friendly, also more flexible and powerful, since any part of the installation is revealed and viewed.
Epigrammatically, the contribution of this project can be summarized as follows
Provides a modular framework for real-time data acquisition and control with visualization of all system’s components.
A complex IC that integrates 0the major functional elements in a single chipset. Which consists of the programmable processor, on-chip memory, accelerating function hardware (e.g. GPU), both hardware and software, analog components, which the Raspberry Pi device.
Sensors connected to the GPIO pin of raspberry pi efficiently integrates various open source technologies to reduce cost, both for software products and hardware utilities.
We have therefore implemented a web and android application based water level monitoring and controlling network which flexibility would offer us to control this system from any place via the internet even with the different type of devices. This could have a substantial benefit from this research work for efficient management of water.