IoT, Cloud and AI Enable Sensor Based Water Monitoring to Handle Water Crisis in Indian Cities

The internet is the greatest innovation of this era. The innovation of the internet has revolutionized the planet entirely by bringing the people and machines closer to each other than ever. The recent development in computing and networking technologies brings the next generation of internet which is called as Internet of Things (IoT). As the industrialization and the population are increasing the movement of people towards urbanization is also increasing. Therefore, cities are converting up into smart cities that can be accomplished with the service of the IoT. Water is one of the crucial resources for the existence of human life, so efficient supervision of water systems plays a significant role in smart cities. This paper uses three different modules of smart water management in context to smart cities. In this work three different sensors such as water flow sensor, water temperature sensor, and ultrasonic sensors are used to monitor water consumption. These sensors are interfaced with microcontrollers such as Raspberry Pi and NodeMCU. The sensors data can be observed on the Thing speak cloud server. This system helps in monitoring the leakage of water as well as to control the unnecessary use of water. Also, this module provides data in real-time for each user and that data can be used for monthly billing of water usage. Hence, the consumer will have to pay for the amount of water he/she can use only. Therefore, this model will allow the users to manage the water consumption efficiently.