Biodiversity sustainability using telemetry for the remote transmission of data from Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur

Abstract

The biodiversity remediation strategies currently used at Lake Buhi, Camarines Sur shows that new techniques are required to solve the problems of decreasing level of dissolved oxygen, increasing carbon dioxide and varying pH values. One such technique that could be used involved the use of telemetry for the remote transmission of data. This method used reactive media, particularly the sensors, to evaluate contaminated lake water. The aims of this study were to develop a telemetric device for real time monitoring and identification of water quality problems; develop a complementary program using Visual Basic and microchip that could remotely monitor water quality through the use of a GSM module; and perform comparative evaluation of the results derived from the device with the results produced by the conventional methods. The comparative evaluations of the results derived from the device were in congruence with the existing method. Its lower variance proved the greater precision of the proposed device. Hence, the telemetry device could be considered as an alternative to the existing device and can be adopted for use by the different LGUs in the province for a more efficient monitoring of water quality in the province.