Design and Real Time Implementation of SmartWater Management using LabVIEW and IoT

Abstract

Water is a pivotal resource for all life on earth. If all the water resources on our planet are considered, only 2.5% is fresh. About more than half of this 2.05% is locked up in the form of ice and in glaciers, and of the remaining 1% is present as groundwater and in lakes, rivers. This explains the importance of water in our daily life. There is a threat soon as water will become scarce if used without any concern. People should stop wasting water as much as one can do so that there will not be any water crisis in the coming days. Here comes the word "Smart-Water Management," which combines advanced technologies to manage and reduce water usage and wastage. This project's focus areas are water conservation, water quality testing and analysis, wastewater management, smart irrigation, and smart water analytics. In this project, all the aforementioned modules would be implemented in real-time using physio-chemical sensors to measure chemical and physical parameters such as pressure, temperature, water turbidity, conductivity, flow, pH, and soil moisture. All these sensors are further integrated to NI myRIO, which is connected to LabVIEW software, which does the pre-processing of the information. The information is further sent to IoT cloud-based services like Amazon AWS or Microsoft AZURE, which are used to analyze and communicate the usage statistics and control the management systems.