ABSTRACT
The importance of water- resources information systems cannot be overestimated in the socio-economic development process of nations and the world environment. Increasing demand of water supply has become a major challenge for the world, it is therefore necessary to ensure the safe supply of water quality which needs to be monitor in real time, in order to achieve this, it is essential that effective water monitoring device, together with sound data and information. Food and beverage industry is one of the most water-intensive industries, with water required for various processes, e.g. washing, cooking, cleaning, at almost every stage of the production, as well as being a key constituent in many food and drink products. Therefore, a real-time efficient water management strategy is imperative, and the novel Internet of Things (IoT)-based technologies can be of significant help in that it presents an instant result since laboratory methods are too slow to develop an operational response and does not provide a level of public health protection in real time and the development of a surface water monitoring network is a critical element in the assessment and protection of water quality, this project report thus developed a prototype of easy to install technology by which the different surface water (e.g. rivers, lakes) quality indicators can be measured. This paper presents a smart water quality monitoring system. This is carried out by a new approach for the design and development of a low cost system for real time monitoring of the water quality system, that is, IoT (internet of things) based which monitors and report the quality of water in real time is presented in this project. This system consists four sensors which measure the water quality parameters such as pH, turbidity, conductivity and temperature, which is used to measuring physical and chemical parameters of the water. The 13 measured values from the sensors were processed by the microcontroller ATMEGA8. The ATMEGA8 model was used as a core controller. Finally, the sensors results in form of data can be viewed on internet browser's application using cloud computing WI-FI system via IoT (internet of things) system- this system uses WI-Fi module (Esp8266) on Thingspeak internet, these data are stored in the cloud and can be accessed at the instant or in future.
