We present WATTR, a novel self-powered water activity sensor that utilizes residential water pressure impulses as both a powering and sensing source. Consisting of a power harvesting circuit, piezoelectric sensor, ultra-low-power 16-bit microcontroller, 16-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a 433 MHz wireless transmitter, WATTR is capable of sampling home water pressure at 33 Hz and transmitting over 3 m when any water fixture in the home is opened or closed. WATTR provides an alternative sensing solution to the power intensive Bluetooth-based sensor used in the HydroSense project by Froehlich et al. [2] for single-point whole-home water usage. We demonstrate WATTR as a viable self-powered sensor capable of monitoring and transmitting water usage data without the use of a battery. Unlike other water-based power harvesters, WATTR does not waste water to power itself. We discuss the design, implementation, and experimental verification of the WATTR device. © 2010 ACM.
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Campbell, T., Larson, E., Cohn, G., Alcaide, R., & Patel, S. N. (2010). WATTR: A method for self-powered wireless sensing of water activity in the home. In UbiComp’10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 169–172). https://doi.org/10.1145/1864349.1864378
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