Design and implementation of remotely monitoring system for pH level in Baghdad drinking water networks

Abstract

Many people in the recent days have suffering from number of diseases due to unsafe and impure drinking water, especially in rural areas. As typical laboratory experiments and official water quality tests take considerable amount of time to obtain results and due to non availability of a simple device that can measure such water quality parameters in real time, therefore in this paper a remote pH level monitoring system for Baghdad drinking water system is proposed. A PH level sensing and monitoring nodes are distributed at different location. These nodes are proactively measured pH level of water and send data to the maintenance center to give them overall picture about pH level via global position system (GSM). This proposed system gives a robust, low-cost and effective method for the drinking water maintenance center to measure and monitoring the water quality in real time environment.

Control of a drinking water quality monitoring and pumping system

“…10. indications shown in [44]. First, for the pH4502C sensor, the control module is supplied with a voltage of 5V and the electrode is introduced in the pH 4.00 solution to make the first calibration; it is waited approximately 1 minute to obtain an accurate value.…”

“…In this case, the sensor was programmed to give a value from 0 to 5V. Unlike [44] which uses a scale from 0 to 3000 NTU. We chose to use only the voltage because we will not need so many intermediate values for the value displayed in the application; we simply want to know if the water is opaque or clean.…”

“…In most of the investigations, three to more different sensors were used to achieve water quality measurement, e.g., temperature, oxygen, conductivity, turbidity, and others [21], [42], [43]. However, in [44] only the pH sensor was needed to reach the same result, since it deals with wastewater.…”

Status index of optimal water variables for biodiversity conservation in the Lagoon of Sonso in Colombia

“…There are different methodologies to assess the degradation of aquatic systems, on the one hand, some focused on the biotic component, using organisms as biological indicators and are more developed in Europe, USA and somewhat less in Latin America [1]. On the other hand, there are the indices referring to the abiotic components, which directly evaluate the physical and chemical quality of the water, and a third element that evaluates the habitat conditions to sustain the biota, such as the indices of habitat quality and bank structure, separated or gathered in river quality índices [2], [3]. This paper will specifically address quality indices, which according to [4], [5] water resource quality in wetlands is being increasingly accelerated by anthropogenic factors that cause physico-chemical conditions such as biologycal oxygen demand (BOD), pH and others to be significantly affected.…”