Water Management System for Smart City

Abstract

Water is a vital resource, while not that life doesn’t exist on earth. Conservation of water is important for human survival. During the past decade, water needs have increased unpredictably in India. Increasing demand of water supply has become a major challenge for the world. Wasteful usage of water, climatic changes and Urbanization has further depleted the resource. Earth surface is covered with 70% of water and out of that only 2.5% of water is freshwater. Again, out of that 2.5%, only 0.3% of it is available on earth. Hence, it is very necessary to utilize water intelligently. However, due to water leakage and theft a lot of water gets wasted. 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 and introduces prepaid billing; 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 encourage its conservation and avoid water theft activities. We also measure the quality of water distributed to every household by deploying pH and conductivity sensors. The traditional water metering systems require periodic human intervention for maintenance making it inconvenient and often least effective. For shortcoming of the existing models for a ubiquitous usage of wireless systems for smart quality monitoring and communicate data wirelessly.