Domestic water usage monitoring and control system.

Abstract

This project combines a Hall-effect water flow gauge- with an. Atmel chip •the 8-h.it ATMega328PU microcontroller in 28 pin DIP package, with- double flash space and an HD44870 character based LCD- JHD162A to make it easy for you to measure water consumption in your shower. bath, or other pans of the house. The overarching goal Of this project is to motivate more sustainable water use behaviour and raise awareness about global water issues because many people waste a lot of water hence leading to increase home's daily expenses Measuring cumulative volume makes it easy to determine total consumption across a period and •is accurate in terms of total usage. Both the flow rate and the. cumulative volumes are displayed on an LCD. This project was therefore aimed at developing a GSM based system that would so solve the above problem through the fallowing Ways; displaying the amount of water being used. and left to be automatically cut off automatic cut off of water flow if Maximum set volume of water reaches and notifications to the user about the state of water usage at home. The work is arranged mainly in six chapters Chapter one includes the introduction of a GSM based domestic water usage monitoring and control system. Chapter two discusses the literature related. to the system, Chapter three illustrates the methodologies used in coming up with The working prototype of the system, Chapter four includes system design and analysis Chapter five is contains the implementation and. testing Of the system and chapter six contains the summary of-the work, discussions and recommendations.