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Water Monitoring System Using Arduino with

LabVIEW
Yogesh K. Taru Anil Karwankar
Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department, Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Department,
Government College of Engineering, Government College of Engineering,
Aurangabad, India. Aurangabad, India.
taruyogesh05@[Link]. karwankar@[Link]

Abstract — In the many part of the word, availability of potable

water is an issue as it is contaminated, there are basic qualitative
parameter monitor frequently so that to protect the health of
observations that quickly determine if water is not safe to consumer and ascertain that water is clean or not. The
consume. To prevent the pollution, first part is to detect that wireless sensors Network used to control the parameter pH,
pollutant. This system is to develop, implement, monitor and Temperature, required for pisiculture using NI myRIO and by
control some parameter of water such as pH level, temperature, using that data they control motor, pump and Filter [2]. In
turbidity. In this system low cost sensors are used to control and many countries smart water device use to check the status of
monitor the parameters. Arduino UNO interface with aquarium health. It particularly monitors parameters like pH,
LabVIEW. oxidation/reduction potential (ORP), electro conductivity and
Keywords — Water quality parameter, measurement, temperature. In some cases of monitoring the data is in real-
control, LabVIEW, Arduino UNO R3. time operation [3] [6]. They provide fast and effective
I. INTRODUCTION reaction in case of rising disease. In some research they apply
nano sensors to calculate parameter in that they calculate the
To survive on the earth every living thing need water. 8 parameter and using this nano sensor give accurate result as
Human body made up with more than 60 % of water. On the compare to conventional sensors [15]. Some system gives
earth 70% of water is available from that clean water is use to lightweight implementation, low cost and longtime operation
drink, to grow crops and to operate industries, for swimming use of optical sensors and in-pipe line electrochemical [5].
and fishing. Water is very important for everyone. When the Recent multi parametric Solid-state sensors for water quality
water is polluted it is not only devastating to the environment, in another system depend on the thick –film technology using
but also human body. Constant monitoring of waterways can of chemical sensors these sensors are low cost, they have
prevent pollution. Farmer need that information to manages required a typical glass reference electrode to control
the land and grow crops. Our government is use of that accuracy and have limited life time. The system depends on
information to control the pollution of water. To measure the wireless network technology use to monitoring large scale
water quality is difficult. The water has very vast network it’s water. In the system is developed to monitor salinity of
branching like river, springs, wells, swamps, lakes, wetlands, ground water and surface water temperature. To monitor
estuaries, bays, etc. each water body can comprise intensely nitrate, chloride level, and ammonium in river, they
different level of pollution. Water quality measures the developed system based on energy harvesting system and use
physical, chemical, biological and microbiological of wireless network system. This system based on soar panel
characteristic of water. Keeping track of water quality in [6]. [13][14] This system is developed to find the wide range
current era is big challenge because of the large amount of of application in the field and Aquaculture monitoring.
chemical use in day to day activities and in industry that that
ultimately make their way into water. Resource of clean III. IMPLEMENTATION & PERFORMANCE
water is very less on the earth. It is very important for the
health of human. As increasing globalization the world is A. Temperature Sensors:
facing problem that is water consumption and contamination Temperature of water is one of most important property
water. The utilization of water health issues are growing because of other parameter depend on temperature for
intensively. The main objective of this paper to implement accuracy. The main function of the DS18S20 is to provide
sensors remotely monitors and control of water quality direct digital values of temperature. The resolution of the
parameter temperature, pH, and turbidity in the system. temperature sensors (DS18S20) is configure to 9, 10, 11 and
12 bits, corresponding to increment of 0.5oC, 0.25oC, 0.125oC
II. RELATED WORK and 0.625oC correspondingly. Measure temperature between -
The standards of drinking water quality are decided by the 55 to +125 degree Celsius and not required external
World Health Organization (WHO) guideline [1]. This World components. To initiate temperature measurements, analog to
Health organization decided the standard of drinking water digital conversion, T command is converted by the master.
parameter like microbiological, chemical and indicator Obtained temperature reading is the 2 bytes temperature
register stored in the scratchpad memory and the DS18S20

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return to it idle state. The applications of temperature sensor with Arduino UNO R3 board using Atmega328as the main
are like used in many industrial system, thermometer, and controlling unit. The function of the temperature sensor is to
thermostatic control. measure the temperature of water and send the data to
Arduino UNO.
B. pH sensor
pH is a very important parameter for water. It is used to
measure the acidity or alkalinity of water [7]. These acidity or
alkalinity is determined by relative hydrogen ions h+ or
relative hydroxyl ions OH- present in the water. Higher
number of hydrogen ions signifies acidic solution while the
alkaline solutions have higher number of hydroxyl ions
present in the water. pH can express scale range from 1 to 14.
The scale range from 0 to 6.0 is represent that solution has
acidic, scale in range 7.0 to 8.0 represent solution is neutral
and above 8.0 to 14.0 solution is alkaline. In those hydrogen
ions is directly proportional to PH sensor output voltage.
When the PH scale reading is 7.0 at that time temperature is
25 degree Celsius. PH scale range corresponding to mV
scale, the range between -420mV to +420 mV. At 0mV the
pH scale range is 7.0. As per standards normal drinking water
pH scale range is 7.0 to 8.0.
Fig.1. Overview of system block diagram
Table.1. Water PH and Interpretation

1.0 Strongly Acid

3.5 Medium Acid

6.0 Slightly Acid

7.0 Neutral

8.0 Neutral

10.0 Mildly Alkaline

14.0

C. Turbidity sensors
Turbidity is measure clarity of water. Clear water has the
low turbidity value on the other hand muddy water has high
turbidity. Cloudiness is caused by suspended soils and
plankton that suspended in the water column. Effect of
turbidity is that it diminishes transparency of water and
decreases photosynthesis rate and also increases water
temperature. Highly turbid water can be detrimental to an
aquatic ecosystem. Unit of Turbidity is Nephelometric
Turbidity Units [NTU]. As per USGS standard, surface water
is likely to have turbidity between 1 NTU and 50 NTU.
Water is considered safe to drink if its turbidity is 1.0 NTU. It
should not be more than 5.0 NTU and should ideally be
below 1.0 NTU. The intensity of light that scattered by the
suspended solid in water is measure by the turbidity sensor.
IV. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY AND SOFTWARE
The architecture of water testing diagram with three
different sensors is shown in the figure. 1. The system built
Fig.2. Flowchart

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The Arduino UNO use as Controller unit is read the Code can be inserted using graphical representation of
analog values from the sensors and converted into the voltage function to control the front panel object. Block diagram
form then calibrate. The Arduino board provide with ADC resemble flow chart in certain ways. The fig.4. shows that
(Analog to Digital converter) with analog input slot [9]. In front panel of the LabVIEW. LabVIEW having a Web
this project Arduino UNO interface with LabVIEW. publishing tool bar use to access a data in any Remote
LabVIEW is used as a Display unit in the system. This Data location. This data can show the Front Panel of the System.
can be Access Remotely on the Web. Table 2 show that the This tool bar generated URL, by using URL we can access
specification of parameter to monitoring the system. data [11].

Table.2. Specification for each Monitoring System

Parameters Measurement Unit Range Quality

Principle Range

Temperature Optical/infrared Degree 0-100 --------

scattering Celsius
Turbidity RTD NTU 0-100 0-5
Resistance

PH Glass electrode PH 0-14 6.5-8.5

A. Arduino:
The board based on ATmege328 with 14 digital
input/output and 6 analog input pins having 16 MHz crystal
oscillator. The added more features are ICSP heater, a USB
connection, in circuit serial programmer, and reset button.
Fig.4. LabVIEW Front Panel
The Serial out (TX) and Serial in (RX), the external power
supply taken AC to DC Adapter. The Arduino UNO board is The remote control panel manager show the how many
operated on an external supply 6 to 20 volts[9]. clients are connected to the server and also ability to
disconnect specific client with help of the touch button. The
use of the remote panel tool is very simple and powerful
security because of there are three option Allow Viewing and
controlling, allow Viewing, Deny Access. [Link] that
Webpage of the system on internet explore

Fig.3. Arduino Board

B. Arduino programming tool:

The IDE software is mostly used as a programming tool
for UNO board. The boot loader is use to upload the new
code without use of any exterior hardware programmer.

C. LabVIEW:
In LabVIEW use ‘G’ programming language that is Data
flow programming language. To create front panel of user
interface set of tool and object are required in LabVIEW. Fig.5. Webpage of the system on Internet explore

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V. CONCLUSION
The system is use to monitoring Turbidity, Temperature, PH
level of water with interfacing of LabVIEW. The use of
system is more economical and reliable for water monitoring.
Moreover the system is flexible, easy to operate and install.
The system has good flexibility. The system can be
expandable to agriculture, industrial use.

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