IoT Based Real-Time Monitoring of Phytoremediation of Wastewater using the Mathematical Model Implemented on the Embedded Systems

Abstract

This paper presents the Internet of things (IoT) technology for real-time monitoring of wastewater phytoremediation. Phytoremediation is a technique to remove pollutants from the wastewater using the plants. A conventional method to monitor the phytoremediation performance is by taking the samples of the contaminants from a site and measuring them at the laboratory. This method needs many works for data preparation and analysis. A recent development on the IoT technology may eliminate such tasks by a real-time monitoring system. In the proposed realtime monitoring system, several phytoremediation models are implemented on embedded hardware and connected to the Thingspeak IoT platform. The proposed system aims to provide a real-time monitoring system to better model the phytoremediation by examining the monitoring data time interval and fitting techniques. From the experiments, the proposed monitoring system achieves a data transfer reliability of 81.4% when the period of the data transmission is one minute, which is suitable for one-day interval real-time monitoring system. The proposed monitoring system can build a phytoremediation model using a polynomial fitting with a higher fit than the existing methods using an exponential fitting. Further, the proposed method promises a better solution in terms of the best model, the low cost, and the acceptable accuracy.