Designing of wireless sensor nodes for providing good quality drinking water to the public

• Main Authors: Usha Kumari, Ch, Laxmi Lydia, E., Sampath Dakshina Murthy, A., Kumar, M.N.V.S.S
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arduino UNO; Sensors; Solar panel; Wireless Sensor Networks; Zigbee
• ISSN: 2214-7853; 2214-7853
• DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.07.352

•ZigBee is chosen as networking technology in this research than, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The reason is ZigBee fulfils needs of remote control, monitoring and sensor network applications.•Water quality is measured and monitored using wireless sensor nodes for providing good quality drinking water to the public for home and industry applications with low data rates.•Turbidity sensor is used to determine any un-dissolved/dissolved particle present in water. The Absorption method is used which is cost effective and components required for design a turbidity sensor. Industrialization and urbanization in India have caused heavy environmental pollution. Most of the surface water had been polluted due to the environmental influence. Providing better quality drinking water to public is also a challenge due to pollution in the ground water and contamination even during distribution. Thus, it is very necessary to have adequate methods and equipment for water protection and drinking water quality measurement is an important aspect for the purpose. The protection of public health is an imperative and the potential of millions of severe effects from water contamination is not unrealistic. There is a need of In-situ monitoring, instant collection and calibration of data rather than manual collection of samples and testing. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has paved its significance into various applications. Although manual monitoring of water quality has been done, it requires a lot of labor, time and equipment. So, there is a need to develop a robust and reliable smart system where a real time monitoring of parameters of water quality for different water distribution tanks is done all the while. In this paper, Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) in a predefined Wireless Sensor zone using Zigbee Technology is implemented. Water Quality can be accessed in practical systems through the sensors which send the water quality data to the base station. Now a days, Renewable energy power generation is playing a main role in which Solar power is widely used. Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) Controller improves the efficiency of Solar Power System. In this paper, a flexible, reliable Wireless Senor Network (WSN) based method of monitoring the quality of water with maximum power point tracking controlled solar PV system is developed.