Development of unmanned surface vehicle for water quality monitoring and measurement

Water qualities management for the water reservoir are becoming unprecedentedly more important due rapid growth of populations and high tech industries, furthermore, recent climate change also play an important role into this problem. Regular water inspection and sample collection could help significantly in management of water resources also the distribution of water. Even though the testing of water is mostly done by the senor station in water reservoir automatically, but only small number of the station are installed in the reservoir, hence the “resolution” is not enough for modern day uses. Apart from the resolution, the state of the art water management uses the results of water measurement (sample collected by inspector) for further decision making. Such method is accurate but lack of real time information which leads to slow in the response when pollution or after natural disaster. In order to solve these problem, many researcher has start to uses Internet of Thing (IoT) concept sensors, however, the cost is still high, as well as that many water reservoir did not have mobile phone signal coverage. Hence, this paper propose and development of Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) which carry a mobile water quality sensor to perform a real time scan of water qualities. Secondly, due to no mobile signal coverage, development will also include the communication relay via UAV.