PREPAID WATER METER AND WATER QUALITY CHECKING USING IOT

Computer Engineering

Water Efficiency is considered as a major aspect for every country in the world, many studies such as integrated water management were developed to enhance the way water resources are managed. Consequently, smart water systems were developed to reach equity for water usage, economic benefits for both the consumer and the utility, improve system management and achieve maximum water efficiency.Prepaid water meter is a device that measures the amount of water consumed by householders who have the device fitted within their premises. Water conservation is a big issue in many apartments. A common meter is fitted and cumulative consumption amount is shared among households where they are being charged more than what is to be paid. There are several idea to overcome this issue. In this paper we have proposed a solution to this issue in which a device is used to calculate the flow rate and quantity of water consumed by the householders and send it to the cloud to monitor the consumption of water.Current Municipal Corporation Water Distribution has manual process need additional personnel and has no system to monitor the flow, utilization and quality of water. According to study, there has a case where one family gets water supply for 1 hr per day and another family gets 24 hours water supply. Each individual has their own usage of water and everyone have to pay amount of water consumption as per their meter reading. And if any person fails to pay water bill then there has no automated system which can restrict the water supply to their houses. To overcome this problem the system has been developed to monitor the flow, utilization and quality of water. The water resources information will benefit to the water resources management department and the public. The “Prepaid water meter” override the problems prevailing in the existing manual process.Wasteful usage of water, climatic changes and Urbanization has further depleted the resource. Conservation and management of the resource must be given utmost importance. In this paper, we present an IoT design for water monitoring and control approach which supports internet based data collection on real time bases. The system addresses new challenges in the water sector -flow rate measuring and the need for a study of the supply of water in order to curb water wastage and encourage its conservation. We also measure the quality of water distributed to every household by deploying by Solenoid Valve and Turbidity sensors. Java was used for the development of web applications which is an open-source scripting language having Object-Oriented features. MySQL database uses to keep a record of customer information, water consumption, and charges.

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