IoT (Internet of Things) as a Tool to Help Regulate Water Altitude on Dams

In each dam in the Citarum River, workers from the management officers must go to each dam to arrange the doors of irrigation and record for the report if the officers who visit each dam and make irrigation reports can be minimized to be more efficient. Therefore, this research aims to help regulate water altitude on dams through a dam monitoring system employing the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT is a structure where objects, people who are provided with an exclusive identity, and the ability to move data over a network without requiring two-way between humans to humans is the source of human purpose or interaction to a computer. The way it works from IoT is that objects must have an Internet Protocol (IP) address. Furthermore, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in these objects are connected to the Internet network. The idea is expected to be an alternative solution for dam officers in managing irrigation in the dam to raise the officers’ performance in working because of the many times created from this monitoring system. Data collection was conducted through interviews in the hall of Management of River Basin Water Resources (PSDA WS) in Citarum, West Java Province. This research result is the prototype of irrigation monitoring tools to facilitate the modeling of the devices.