A ZIGBEE BASED WIRELESS SENSOR FOR WATER CONTAMINATION MONITORING AT SWIMMING POOL

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

Zigbee Based Wireless Sensor for Water Contamination Monitoring At Swimming Pool

ABSTRACT: Wireless sensor network(WSN) consist of a distribution of sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions and send the data through the network to a specific main location. One of the application of WSN is water contamination monitoring at swimming pool. The parameter that is involved in water contamination monitoring is the temperature and pH value. The value can be measured by using temperature and pH sensor and will be sent in real-time to the monitoring station. This project will show how a monitoring system can be done with focusing on the aspect of low cost, easy handling and maintenance. Since the project is using wireless network to monitor the water quality, it will not only reduce the cost of facilities setup and labour, it also give flexibility in term of distance and location of the swimming pool and monitoring station. The project will use a Zigbee system, which is a high power transmission wireless module that is adopting the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. It is chosen due to its capability and advantage such as low cost, easy to use, minimal power consumption and reliable data communication between sensor nodes. The system consist of three parts, data monitoring nodes; data base station and monitoring station. This project will definitely useful to any places that have swimming pool, such as hotels, resorts, public swimming pools and many more.

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Introduction:

A ZIGBEE BASED WIRELESS SENSOR FOR WATER CONTAMINATION MONITORING AT SWIMMING POOL Swimming pools, no matter where it is, hotels, and public swimming pools is used everyday by people, so, it important to monitor the quality of the water since a lot of people use it. The problem with the monitoring task now, is we have to go to the swimming pool, test the water contamination level by taking specific parameters such as temperature and pH level for example, and it has to be done on schedule to make sure the swimming pool water is safe. The system proposed a better a way to enhance the water contamination monitoring system which is automatically done, effective, reliable in the same time can reduce the labour cost, and is flexible in term of distance by using wireless network. The most important is the monitoring task can be done continuosly on the monitoring station rather than having a worker to go the swimming pool to check the contamination level on specific time.

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Problem Statements:

This project covers study on using wireless sensor network(WSN) to manage the sensors used to measured the parameter needed to monitor the water contamination level. WSN is used since it can manage multiple sensors at the same time and transfer the data via wireless to the monitoring station. This problem with the normal monitoring task is a person is needed to go and check the swimming pool water regularly , on schedule, and it will take time . With using the WSN system, the task can be done automatically without having anyone to go the pool on schedule. 1.2 I. Research Objectives: To apply a Zigbee based wireless sensor for water contamination monitoring at

swimming pool. II. To measure the parameter needed for monitoring purpose which is temperature and

pH value.

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Expected Outcomes:

A ZIGBEE BASED WIRELESS SENSOR FOR WATER CONTAMINATION MONITORING AT SWIMMING POOL

For the expected outcomes, first we will get the parameters needed from the temperature and pH value sensors. The sensors will measure the value of water contamination level. Then the data will be transferred to data base station. Data base station will analyze the value and convert it into electrical signal understandable by human through a microcontroller. After that, the data will be send to a monitoring station. The monitoring base will consist of the same zigbee module programmed to be a receiver to receive the data send from the data base station. The data received is displayed using a built GUI developed using Borland C++ Builder. User will be able to observe the swimming pool water contamination level from the Monitoring station.

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Scope of Research:

The scope of research are to develop a water contamination level monitoring system using a Zigbee based wireless system network. In this project, we will use temperature and pH value sensor and placed in the swimming pool to collect the parameters needed. Then the parameter will be send wirelessly to data base station to analyze the data and convert it to an electrical signal and send to the monitoring station for user to observe the water contamination level.

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Significance of Study:

Significance of the research is it can be a starting point to create a large scale water quality level monitoring system. Using a wireless sensor network is very suitable if a wide coverage of area is needed and to observe more than one swimming pool because it is automatic, can be observe continuosly regardless of the distance or location.