Architectural framework of smart water meter reading system in IoT environment

Internet of Things (IoT) has provided promising opportunities to create powerful industrial and domestic applications. One of its main applications is smart metering. Water is the most precious resource that must be used responsibly. Information about the usage of water can reduce the water wastage and will help in water management. In this paper we propose the architectural framework for IoT based water meter. Water flow and heat measurements are taken by water meter (STUF-280T) which is based on ultrasonic flow measurement technology. We have described the Mediatek Cloud Sandbox which we are using as a cloud platform. For water meter to communicate with the cloud we have used LinkIt ONE development board which is an open source platform for prototyping IoT devices. As data will be stored and analyzed on the cloud, this system will be very economical. Also user can access, analyze and share data anytime, from anywhere.