Smart Water Metering Implementation

Abstract

Throughout the past years, the Indian government is putting its best efforts in developing smart cities by applying smart solutions for infrastructures and services. Smart water management is one of the key service areas where now it is a high time to work for. Many industries and researchers are contributing to incorporate smart techniques for smart water system like sensor-based monitoring, real-time data transmission and controlling, leakage management, water distribution management and many more. Nevertheless, the design and proposal of such a smart water system are still not fairly standardized. The enormous applications of smart water management still do not have systematic framework to guide real-world design and deployment of a metering system. To address this challenge, a framework is designed and tested with prototype implementation. This paper mainly focuses on minimizing smart water metering application development efforts. The framework uses open-source technologies and has mechanisms like device installation, water usage statistics, bill payments and a distributed data transmission architecture.