2015 International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies [ICCPCT]

The Real Time Monitoring of Water Quality in

IoT Environment
N Vijayakumar R Ramya
PG Scholar, Department of Electronics & Assistant professor, Department of Electronics &
Communication Engineering Communication Engineering
K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology, K.S. Rangasamy College of Technology,
Namakkal, India Namakkal, India
[email protected] [email protected]

Abstract-- In order to ensure the safe supply of the The online water monitoring technologies have
drinking water the quality needs to be monitor in real made a significant progress for source water
time. In this paper we present a design and surveillance and water plant operation. The use of
development of a low cost system for real time their technologies having high cost associated with
monitoring of the water quality in IOT(internet of
installation and calibration of a large distributed array
things).the system consist of several sensors is used to
measuring physical and chemical parameters of the of monitoring sensors. The algorithm proposed on the
water. The parameters such as temperature, PH, new technology must be suitable for particular area
turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen of the water and for large system is not suitable.
can be measured. The measured values from the sensors
can be processed by the core controller. The raspberry By focusing on the above issues our paper design
PI B+ model can be used as a core controller. Finally, and develop a low cost system for real time
the sensor data can be viewed on internet using cloud monitoring of the water quality in IOT environment.
computing. In our design raspberry PI B+ is used as a core
Keywords- water quality monitoring, Internet of Things, controller. The design system applies a specialized
Raspberry PI, cloud computing.
IOT module for accessing sensor data from core
I. INTRODUCTION controller to the cloud. The sensor data can be
viewed on the cloud using a special IP address.
Nowadays drinking water is the most precious Additionally the IOT module also provides a Wi-Fi
and valuable for all the human beings, drinking water for viewing the data on mobile.
utilities faces new challenges in real-time operation.
This challenge occurred because of limited water The rest of this paper is organized as follows: In
resources growing population, ageing infrastructure section II, shows the relation with IOT. In Section III,
etc. Hence therefore there is a need of better shows the overall flow diagram of the proposed
methodologies for monitoring the water quality method and its corresponding explanation. In
Section IV shows the experiment done and its
Traditional methods of water quality involve the corresponding result obtained is present. In Section V
manual collection of water sample at different shows the conclusion of our proposed system.
locations, followed by laboratory analytical
II. THE RELATION WITH IOT
techniques in order the character the water quality.
Such approaches take longer time and no longer to be The internet has changed all the human lives in
considered efficient [1]-[5]. Although the current past deader. The IOT becomes a foundation for
methodologies analysis the physical, chemical and connecting things, sensors and other smart
biological agents, it has several drawbacks: a) poor technologies [6]. IOT is an extension of the internet
spatiotemporal coverage b) it is labor intensive and [7].IOT gives an immediate access to information
high cost (labor, operation; and equipment) c)the lack about physical objects and leads to innovative service
of real time water quality information to enable with high efficiency and productivity. There are
critical decisions for public health protection. several important technologies related to the IOT are
Therefore, there is a need for continuous online water ubiquitous computing, RFIP, wireless sensor
quality monitoring. network, cloud computing.

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Cloud computing is a large-scale, low cost controller. The sensor data can be viewed on the
processing unit, which is based on the IP a internet using cloud computing with a separate IP
connection for calculation and storage .The address.
characteristics of the cloud computing has been
discussed in [8],[9],[10],[11]. The IoT application B. PROPOSED SYSTEM
areas include home automation, water environment In our proposed method, Raspberry PI B+ is
monitoring, and water quality monitoring etc. the used as a core controller. The raspberry pi is run on
water quality monitoring application involves large LINUX kernel by the use of keyboard and monitors
distributed array of monitoring sensor and a large the LINUX OS is boot on to the Raspberry PI. The
distribution network [12], [13]. It also requires temperature sensor, conductivity sensor, turbidity
separate monitoring algorithms as reviewed in [14]. sensor, dissolved oxygen sensor, Ph sensor can be
In our proposed method, we introduced a cloud read directly from the command line. However, this
computing technique for viewing sensor values on requires us to input a command every time we want
the internet. The rest of this paper is organized as to know the sensors reading. In ordered to access all
follows. the terminals of the sensors, python program is used,
III. METHODOLOGY which will read the sensors value automatically at set
In this section, we present the theory on real time time intervals.
monitoring of water quality in IoT environment. In
section III A, the overall block diagram of the The Raspberry Pi comes equipped with a range
proposed method is explained. In section III B, each of drivers for interfacing. However, it’s not feasible
and every block of the system is explained in detail. to load every driver when the system boots, as it will
increase the boot time significantly and use a
A. OVERALL BLOCK DIAGRAM
considerable amount of system resources for
redundant processes. These drivers are therefore
The overall block diagram of the system is
stored as loadable modules and the command
shown in fig 1. modprobe is employed to boot them into the Linux
kernel. Then Raspberry Pi sends the data to the IoT
KEYBOARD MONITOR module (USR-WIFI232-X-V4.4). The IoT module
send the data to internet using cloud computing and
TEMPERATURE also to WIFI for accessing mobile devices. The
SENSOR hardware circuit diagram for connecting iot module
(USR-WIFI232-X-V4.4) with Raspberry Pi is shown
TURBIDITY INTERNET
in fig 2.
SENSOR (CLOUD
COMPUTING) UART_TXD
TX
RX
RASPBERRY UART_RXD
PH SENSOR
PI B+ KIT IoT MODULE CTS
UART_CTS
RTS
UART_RTS U
(ARM/LINUX R
S
CONDUCTIVITY Kernel) A
R
SENSOR S
WIFI nReady
P GPIO
W
B
nLink I
E GPIO
DISSOLVED F
R
OXYGEN I
SENSOR MOBILE R BUTTON nReload
DEVICES Y
2
nRST 3
P GPIO
2
POWER I
SUPPLY
3.3V
OF 5V

Fig.1 Overall block diagram

GND
In this proposed block diagram consist of
several sensors (temperature, Ph, turbidity,
conductivity, dissolved oxygen) is connected to core Fig.2 Circuit diagram for connecting core controller to IoT
controller. The core controller are accessing the module.
sensor values and processing them to transfer the data
through internet. Raspberry PI is used as a core
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Then the monitoring parameters of the water pond and also in water distribution network to
from the sensors are transmitted through IoT module collect water quality data and send to water board.
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