IoT-based Smart Water Quality Monitoring System for Malaysia

Abstract

Rapid development has also negatively impacted the sources that provide raw water for agricultural, domestic, and industrial needs. All these sources have been polluted due to man's pure pursuit of economic greed, which has caused illegal waste dumping and high amounts of industrial waste above government regulations, surpassing the ecosystem's self-purification capabilities. In addition, these water systems lead to treatment plants across the country to be treated before daily consumption for domestic use. There have been cases whereby even the treatment plants had to be shut down, which caused water disruptions, namely in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, and their neighbouring regions. Water quality today should be at its best; however, there have been many occurrences when it has been proven otherwise, both in Malaysia and internationally. In this paper, the authors have proposed an IoT based solution that helps people easily monitor the water quality supplied to their homes.