Prototipo de un sistema electrónico para el monitoreo de los niveles de agua potable en un tanque de reserva mediante tecnología GSM

Abstract

The present academic work includes the use of open source electronic equipment and systems such as Arduino and GSM mobile communication technology. The system aims to monitor the water level of a reserve tank which collects the information and transmits it through the GSM network.

The project itself was developed with the ultrasonic level sensor Prosonic FMU41 as the basis of the sensing. For the management of data control, it was made with the Arduino Mega 2560 electronic card and finally the packaging and data transmission was done with the GSM 900 shield.The data obtained is stored in the computers in a microSD memory and in a database in MySQL.

The validation of this project was carried out by monitoring the water level of one of the Mahuarcay water tanks and the measure was obtained every hour during 10 days.The information obtained from the water tank is the volume in cubic meters. This gathered information was contrasted with the empirical measurement techniques of the technicians in charge at EMAPAL E.P.

This system was developed with the aim of preventing leaks or emptying the reserve tank, in the latter case, it can cause problems of air entering the pipes, generating costly maintenance or damage to its measuring equipment and losses for the company.