DESIGN OF A GREEN IOT BASED WATER MONITORING SYSTEM FOR METROPOLITAN CITY

Abstract

Water is essential for life. However, waste is a major problem in the world. Although, several research work have proposed the use of IoT as a solution to curb waste and achieve effective billing. However, in developing countries like Nigeria, the application of such technology is challenging since power or energy supply is often times erratic in nature. Taking Tunga Minna, Niger state Nigeria as a case study, it is observed that the rate of power outage is high. This will however, result to large loss of water consumption data that is supposed to be uploaded to the cloud via IoT platform. To reduce the level of outage, this study presents the design of a green IoT based water monitoring system for metropolitan area. The purpose of the design is to ensure minimum probability of outage. The scope of the design is limited to the hardware design. At the end, it is expected that a design with low probability of outage is achieved.