Proposed Smart Water Management System

Human activities, such as farming, heavy industries, energy generation and mining, significantly demand water resources necessary for life. With the population and water demand increasing, water must be efficiently managed to meet human needs with sufficient supply to protect our ecosystems. Reduced aquifer levels worldwide render human civilization vulnerable to escalating climate change. This paper proposes a priority-based embedded smart water management system based on FreeRTOS technology to address a unique problem where existing water supply systems are inefficiently managed due to the absence of a need-based allocation methodology. Sustainability can be achieved by maintaining a real-time balance of supply and demand to disperse the limited water supply. With FreeRTOS backbone, the proposed system can be fully integrated into an AI-based infrastructure to manage water supply with minimum human intervention efficiently. This research demonstrated that a priority-based real-time water resource distribution system could contribute up to 40% of water management improvement for buildings, farms, and cities.