Automatic water level control using LabVIEW

Abstract

Shortage in water supply is one of the major issues that some major cities throughout the world are facing nowadays. Due to not having full day water supply, households will have to efficiently manage the problem of water shortage and overcome the crises. This paper presents a system that indicates and controls the level of water in overhead tanks. Ultra-sonic sensors are employed to detect the level of the water between predefined minimum and maximum levels. LabVIEW which is a graphical programming language that uses a dataflow model is used to program microcontroller board Arduino UNO that is an interface between the software and the rest of the circuit components. From measured results good performance and accurate results are achieved.

Intelligent Mechatronics in the Measurement, Identification, and Control of Water Level Systems: A Review and Experiment

“…The data flow model offered by the LabVIEW graphical programming idea is used in [34] to program the Arduino UNO microcontroller (a development board). It stands for an interface between the components of the electronic circuits and the software.…”

“…Another measurement technique of an accurate sensing of water level, finding its application in dynamic environments, is mentioned in Section 2.2 [33], since many more, using the physical mechanism of the acoustic wave propagation is shown in the paper [59]. Other applications of an ultrasonic sensor, and cooperation with Arduino UNO and LabVIEW software, are performed in [34].…”

“…A single-tank dynamical system (eventually, equipped with a reservoir-a basin of water), which is investigated in [39,60,61] (state-space approach, PI, PID), [22,37] (state-space representation in a discrete form), [2,7,19,26,62,63] (transfer function approach), [3,5,6,26,[62][63][64][65] (FL, PSO), [22,37] (predictive control), [18,20,27] (geometryvarying tank: conical and spherical) and others [34,46]; 2.…”

Water Level Detection System based on Arduino and LabVIEW for Flood Monitors using Virtual Instrumentation

“…Many experiments have been carried out using LabVIEW and Arduino, such as automated monitoring of the water level using LabVIEW to overcome water supply shortages. [3] The next research was implementation of the IoT based on system for the large-area management of the water distribution system using LabVIEW [4]. After that LabVIEW is used as user-friendly, computer-controlled instrumentation and data analysis technique that can revolutionize the way measurements are made, allowing theoretical predictions, simulations, and actual experimental results compared by almost instantaneously [5].…”