Live Demonstration on Smart Water Quality Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

TLDR: A real-time water quality monitoring system which provides support for decision making in prevention of water contamination and is suitable for large scale deployments, which enable the sensor network to provide data to the water authorities.

Abstract: Contamination of water is the major cause for waterborne diseases. In order to detect the water contaminants, electrochemical and optical sensors are needed to measure physical and chemical properties of water quality. So this paper proposed a real-time water quality monitoring system which provides support for decision making in prevention of water contamination. In this system, sensors are connected to a micro controller to process and analyze the data. The analyzed data is then transmitted to remote monitoring center(dashboard) through GPRS module. In dashboard the end user, can register into the portal, can able to select deployment region through google maps if the device is connected in that location, can visualize the selected deployment region sensor readings in realtime, can identify alerts and warnings of sensors. The registered user can also get alerts and warnings through SMS service. The proposed system is successfully tested in different water environments for online monitoring of the water parameters such as turbidity, pH and temperature of water bodies. The results will indicate that the system is capable of good detection accuracy and low deployment operation cost. This kind of implementation is suitable for large scale deployments, which enable the sensor network to provide data to the water authorities.