Reconfigurable WSN interface for water quality measurement

Abstract

Water = Life, Conservation = Future, Safety = Prevention—the excessive advancement in the field of technology has left mankind least bothered about the water sources leading degrading the quality of water to support life. The lineage of heavy industries and chemical factories with the water sources are dumping loads of harmful wastes to the water sources. To create awareness among people, internet of things (IoT) and wearable sensors through wireless sensor networks (WSN) can be used to facilitate this task. Deployment of such sensors in remote water sources to detect the water quality is made through WSN. This paper reviews about the design of a smart WSN interface (FPGA) for water contamination measurement for the remote water resources, where human presence is very rare. Field programmable gate array (FPGA) is used, which can be programmed and used as the core controller. The proposed system is capable of detecting the chemical changes in the water source in real time by analyzing the sensors and sending the information to the default hub.