Title :
Towards a Real-Time Campus-Scale Water Balance Monitoring System
Author :
Kudva, V.D. ; Nayak, P. ; Rawat, A. ; Anjana, G.R. ; Sheetal Kumar, K.R. ; Amrutur, B. ; Mohan Kumar, M.S.
Author_Institution :
Indian Inst. of Sci., Bangalore, India
Abstract :
In this paper, we describe the design of a real time water balance monitoring system, suitable for large campuses. The battery operated sensor nodes consist of an ultra-sound level sensor, a 16-bit microcontroller and a sub-gigahertz radio to setup a hub and spoke system. Real time data from the sensors is pushed to a server on the cloud to log as well as perform analytics. Industrial design of the device allows flexible mounting on a variety of tanks. Experimental results from a trial deployment in a medium sized campus are shown to illustrate the usefulness of such a system towards better management of campus water resources.
Keywords :
cloud computing; computerised monitoring; level measurement; microcontrollers; microsensors; network servers; tanks (containers); water resources; battery operated sensor node; campus water resource management; cloud server; hub system; microcontroller; real-time campus-scale water balance monitoring system; spoke system; subgigahertz radio; tank; ultrasound level sensor; word length 16 bit; Acoustics; Logic gates; Monitoring; Real-time systems; Reservoirs; Water pollution; Real time monitoring; Ultrasonic Level Sensors; Water Distribution Systems;
Conference_Titel :
VLSI Design (VLSID), 2015 28th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bangalore
DOI :
10.1109/VLSID.2015.20
