A Design of a Water Tanks Monitoring System Based on Mobile Devices

Water supply has become a big problem over the past few years, due to overpopulation, climate change, and deterioration of pipes which can cause major problems, such as water leakage. The real problem is not (in most cases) the size of the leak, but the time it takes to detect it. In this paper, an implementation of a system to monitor the water tanks is presented. The system is called InteRface for Monitoring wAter tanks (IRMA) consists of 1) instrumentation system based on an ultrasonic sensor installed in the water tank bound to an Arduino device. This is connected to 2) the application service that receives and manages the measurements of the water tank levels. In order to advice 3) the mobile user interface over any mobile device, giving the user control everywhere and every time over the GSM network. IRMA is focused on automating the control of water tanks, such as monitoring and filling.