Building a Low‐Cost , Internet‐of‐Things , Real‐Time Groundwater Level Monitoring Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
John Drage ◽  
Gavin Kennedy
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Husneni Mukhtar ◽  
Doan Perdana ◽  
Parman Sukarno ◽  
Asep Mulyana

ABSTRACTThe needs of flood disaster management encourage various efforts from all scientific disciplines of science, technology, and society. This article discusses the efforts to prevent flooding due to the habit of disposing of their waste into rivers through an innovative waste management system using the approach and application of Internet-based technology (IoT). Previous research has produced a prototype of the waste level monitoring system. In this research, the prototype was developed into a practical technology, called SiKaSiT (IoT Based Trash Capacity Monitoring System). This technology aims to assist janitor in monitoring, controlling and obtaining information about trash capacity and disposal time easily through an application on the smartphone in real-time and online. The system was made using a level detection sensor integrated with NodeMCU and Wi-Fi, MQTTbroker-protocol and Android-based application. Furthermore, the system was implemented in Bojongsoang adjacent to the Citarum river, where the water often overflowed due to the high rainfall and volume of trash around it. The results of system testing in the field shown good performance with value ranges of reliability is (99,785 - 99,944)% and availability is (99,786 - 99,945)%. SiKaSiT has several advantages over other similar systems. First, there is an application on the user's smartphone to monitor the capacity of trash and notification for full-bin. Second, the ability to operate on a small-bandwidth internet network because the throughput time is only around 0.59 kbps, thereby saving internet bandwidth consumption. This system has also helped overcome the problem of community trash management in Kampung Cijagra, where 60% of them gave feedback "agree" and the rest "strongly agree".Keywords: waste, IoT, monitoring, flooding, riverABSTRAKKebutuhan penanggulangan bencana banjir mendorong berbagai upaya dari semua disiplin ilmu baik dari bidang sains, teknologi dan sosial. Dalam artikel ini, penulis membahas upaya pencegahan banjir akibat kebiasaan membuang sampah ke sungai melalui inovasi sistem manajemen sampah menggunakan pendekatan dan penerapan teknologi berbasis Internet of Things (IoT). Pada riset sebelumnya telah dihasilkan sebuah prototype sistem monitoring level sampah. Kemudian pada riset ini prototype tersebut dikembangkan menjadi suatu teknologi tepat guna, dinamakan dengan SiKaSiT (Sistem Pemantauan Kapasitas Sampah Berbasis IoT). Teknologi ini bertujuan untuk membantu petugas kebersihan dalam memantau, mengontrol dan memperoleh informasi tentang kapasitas sampah dan waktu pembuangan sampah dengan mudah melalui aplikasi di smartphone secara real time dan online. Sistem dibuat dengan menggunakan sensor deteksi ketinggian sampah yang diintegrasikan dengan NodeMCU dan Wi-Fi, protokol MQTT broker dan aplikasi berbasis android pada smartphone. Selanjutnya sistem diimplementasikan di daerah Bojongsoang yang berdekatan dengan sungai Citarum yang airnya sering meluap akibat tingginya curah hujan dan volume sampah di sekitarnya. Hasil pengujian sistem di lapangan menunjukkan kinerja yang baik dengan kisaran nilai reliability adalah (99,785 – 99,944) % dan availability adalah (99,786 – 99,945) %. SiKaSiT memiliki beberapa kelebihan dibanding sistem serupa lainnya. Pertama, adanya aplikasi di smartphone pengguna untuk memonitor kapasitas sampah dan notifikasi saat tempat sampah penuh. Kedua, sistem mampu beroperasi pada jaringan internet bandwith kecil karena waktu throughput-nya hanya sekitar 0,59 kbps sehingga menghemat konsumsi bandwith internet. Sistem ini juga telah membantu menanggulangi permasalahan pengelolaan sampah masyarakat Kampung Cijagra, dimana 60% masyarakat memberi feedback “setuju” dan sisanya “sangat setuju”.Kata kunci: Sampah, IoT, Monitoring, Banjir, Sungai


Author(s):  
L. Marek ◽  
M. Campbell ◽  
M. Epton ◽  
M. Storer ◽  
S. Kingham

The opportunity of an emerging smart city in post-disaster Christchurch has been explored as a way to improve the quality of life of people suffering Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which is a progressive disease that affects respiratory function. It affects 1 in 15 New Zealanders and is the 4th largest cause of death, with significant costs to the health system. While, cigarette smoking is the leading cause of COPD, long-term exposure to other lung irritants, such as air pollution, chemical fumes, or dust can also cause and exacerbate it. Currently, we do know little what happens to the patients with COPD after they leave a doctor’s care. By learning more about patients’ movements in space and time, we can better understand the impacts of both the environment and personal mobility on the disease. This research is studying patients with COPD by using GPS-enabled smartphones, combined with the data about their spatiotemporal movements and information about their actual usage of medication in near real-time. We measure environmental data in the city, including air pollution, humidity and temperature and how this may subsequently be associated with COPD symptoms. In addition to the existing air quality monitoring network, to improve the spatial scale of our analysis, we deployed a series of low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) air quality sensors as well. The study demonstrates how health devices, smartphones and IoT sensors are becoming a part of a new health data ecosystem and how their usage could provide information about high-risk health hotspots, which, in the longer term, could lead to improvement in the quality of life for patients with COPD.


2013 ◽  
Vol 313-314 ◽  
pp. 1180-1183
Author(s):  
Qi Zhi Fang ◽  
Yong Zhe Ge ◽  
Hong Yu Xu

The elevator monitoring system of elevator is an integrated elevator management platform that can realize fault for alarm, rescuing trapped persons, daily management, quality evaluation and preventing hidden trouble by using C8051f060 MCU as the control core to sensor and collect the elevator operation data, with built-in TCP/IP transport protocol and with HuaWei GTM900C GPRS module to realize all kinds of data monitoring of the elevator, and the transmitting of the data to processing server through the network . This paper mainly introduces the formation of wireless monitoring network system and communication protocol construction, and especially analyzes the function and the system architecture of the wireless communication terminal in real-time monitoring. GPRS can not only satisfy the requirement of real-time elevator monitoring system, with low cost and high reliability but can also effectively avoid a variety of problems that are caused by transmitting the alarm data through cables . This system provides many valuable experiences for the development of unattended system, and it has a broad development prospects.


2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-guang Yang ◽  
Shu-you Cao ◽  
Xing-nian Liu ◽  
Ke-jun Yang

Author(s):  
Francisco Vital Da Silva Júnior ◽  
Mônica Ximenes Carneiro Da Cunha ◽  
Marcílio Ferreira De Souza Júnior

Floods are responsible for a high number of human and material losses every year. Monitoring of river levels is usually performed with radar and pre-configured sensors. However, a major flood can occur quickly. This justifies the implementation of a real-time monitoring system. This work presents a hardware and software platform that uses Internet of Things (IoTFlood) to generate flood alerts to agencies responsible for monitoring by sending automatic messages about the situation of rivers. Research design involved laboratory and field scenarios, simulating floods using mockups, and later tested on the Mundaú River, state of Alagoas, Brazil, where flooding episodes have already occurred. As a result, a low-cost, modular and scalable IoT platform was achieved, where sensor data can be accessed through a web interface or smartphone, without the need for existing infrastructure at the site where the IOTFlood solution was installed using affordable hardware, open source software and free online services for the viewing of collected data.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 3031
Author(s):  
Paul English ◽  
Heather Amato ◽  
Esther Bejarano ◽  
Graeme Carvlin ◽  
Humberto Lugo ◽  
...  

Air monitoring networks developed by communities have potential to reduce exposures and affect environmental health policy, yet there have been few performance evaluations of networks of these sensors in the field. We developed a network of over 40 air sensors in Imperial County, CA, which is delivering real-time data to local communities on levels of particulate matter. We report here on the performance of the Network to date by comparing the low-cost sensor readings to regulatory monitors for 4 years of operation (2015–2018) on a network-wide basis. Annual mean levels of PM10 did not differ statistically from regulatory annual means, but did for PM2.5 for two out of the 4 years. R2s from ordinary least square regression results ranged from 0.16 to 0.67 for PM10, and increased each year of operation. Sensor variability was higher among the Network monitors than the regulatory monitors. The Network identified a larger number of pollution episodes and identified under-reporting by the regulatory monitors. The participatory approach of the project resulted in increased engagement from local and state agencies and increased local knowledge about air quality, data interpretation, and health impacts. Community air monitoring networks have the potential to provide real-time reliable data to local populations.


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