Special Issue - 2019 International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT)

ISSN: 2278-0181
RTESIT - 2019 Conference Proceedings

Water Tank Monitoring System

Nishmitha Poorna Shetty
Department of CSE Department of CSE
Alva’s Institute of Engineering & Alva’s Institute of Engineering &
Technology Technology
Mijar,Moodbidri,India Mijar,Moodbidri,India
Dr. Manjunath Kotari
Department of CSE
Alva’s Institute of Engineering & Sudarshan G
Shraddha Shetty Technology
Department of CSE Department of CSE
Mijar,Moodbidri,India Alva’s Institute of Engineering &
Alva’s Institute of Engineering &
Technology Technology
Mijar,Moodbidri,India Mijar,Moodbidri,India

Abstract— Most of the people in residential areas face the Hence there is a need for modifying the traditional water
problem of running out of water and overflow of water in water meters for the users to continuously monitor their water usage
tanks due to excess supply of water. It becomes difficult for users which is always not possible. At present, water meters are used
to judge the level of water in water tanks, due to which at times to calculate the amount of water used at homes. This doesn‘t
of need users may run out of water. Even when the pump is
turned on users will not realize when the water tank is filled which
provide an efficient method of monitoring the water usage.
may result in overflow. Water tank monitoring system is used to II. REVIEWING EXISTING SOLUTION
sort out the issues associated with water tank. It is also possible to
check the level of the water using sensor so that whenever the Konstantinos Loizou, Eftichios Kourtroulis [1], have proposed
water goes below certain threshold limit, a notification is sent to a sensor which is constructed using multilayer tubes. The cost
user through the android application and user needs to turn on of manufacturing and associated electronic circuits, which are
the pump. Also when there is overflow of water in water tank it used for data collection were low. The proposed sensor was
uses sensor to detect the water level so that if the water level goes developed using polyethylene pipes, which were used for
above certain limit the pump gets turned off automatically. This
construction of water distribution systems in buildings and
system prevents wastage of water.
industries. The working of this sensor was evaluated in a 4
Keywords—Water tank, sensors, android application, automatic metre water storage tank. The results of the experiment
presented the accuracy of the sensor. However the sensor
I. INTRODUCTION showed some limitations when it was put to use for long time.
L.A. Gama-Moreno, A.Corralejo, A.Ramirez-Molina [2],
Water is a universal solvent which plays an important role in
implemented a system to monitor water tanks. The
everyday life. The total amount of water available on earth has
implemented system consisted of instrumentation system, an
been estimated at 1.4 billion cubic kilometers, enough to cover
application, which managed the water levels and a mobile user
the planet with a layer of about 3km. About 95% of the Earth’s
interface. The system was called as Interface Monitoring
water is unfit for human consumption. About 4% is locked in
Water Tanks (IRMA). Ultrasonic sensor were put into use
the polar ice caps, and the rest 1% constitutes all fresh water
along with Arduino Microcontroller Board, which is connected
found in rivers, streams and lakes which is suitable for our
to the application service. Notifications are sent when the
consumption. A study estimated that a person in India
water level goes below the minimum threshold. The main
consumes an average of 135 liters per day. This consumption
feature of this system was to control and monitor the watering
would rise by 40% by the year 2025. This signifies the need to
preserve our fresh water resources. Many houses make use of functions online.
supplementary water tank to store water that is collected from BezaNegashGetu, HussainA.Attia [3], have developed a
rain water or water pumped from well or underground. At system which initially tests the availability of water in the tank
present, water meters are used to calculate the amount of water with the help of a level detector and then adjusts the state of
used at homes. This doesn‘t provide an efficient method of the water pump according to the information collected through
monitoring the water usage. The water is wasted at each and the level detector. This design makes use of seven segment
every outlet knowingly or unknowingly which adds up to huge display and a motor pump. The proposed system consists of
amount in the end. Efficient management of the water used at water level sensor and a digital logic processor circuit. The
homes is very much necessary as, about 50% of water supplied proposed system eliminates manually controlling of water
to the cities gets wasted through its improper usage. Water requirements in home and agricultural fields.
management is only possible, if the user is aware of the Shrenika R M, Swathi SChikmath [4], have designed a non-
quantity of water he uses and the quantity available to him. contact water level monitoring system using LabVIEW and

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Arduino. Ultrasonic sensor measures the depth of water in the sump tank is low, the pump will not be switched ON and this
tank. The program written will receive the data from the sensor protects the motor from dry running. A beep sound is
and supplies the collected data to Arduino and based on the generated when the level in the sump tank is low or if there is
data received, Arduino board switches the pump ON or OFF. any fault with sensor.
This design overcomes the disadvantages of most of the Aanchal M. Pande [11] has proposed a system called Water
proposed systems which use SS sensors, which corrode when quality Monitoring system for water tanks of housing society.
comes in contact with chemicals present in the water. IOT (Internet Of Things) based water tank monitoring system
PriyenP.Shah, Anjali A.Patil [5], introduced a project which such as tank water level sensing monitoring and water
uses Android application and IoT for monitoring of water in pollution monitoring has been proposed. The system measures
tanks. This project uses ESP 8266 as microcontroller. physical and chemical parameters of water quality such as pH,
Maximum and minimum levels of water are obtained through level, turbidity, temperature, and humidity. This parameter
ESP from Firebase cloud. When the water level is between detects water contaminants. The measured values from the
Maximum and minimum status can be controlled by the user. sensors are processed by ESP8266 Wemos d1 mini and these
This project overcomes the short-comings of conventional processed values are transmitted remotely to the raspberry pi
tanks which can neither monitor nor control the water level in via Wi-Fi and makes the raspberry Pi display the data on a
tank. simple graphical interface over different time periods.
Madhurima Santra, Sanjoy Biswas [6], introduced a system Sanam Pudasaini, Anuj Pathak, Sukirti Dhakal, Milan Paudel
which measures water level by using ultrasonic sensors. The [12] proposed Automatic water level controller with Short
system makes use of water level indicator, water level sensor, Messaging Service (SMS) Notification. SMS Notification was
water pump controlling system and microcontroller. The heart added to automatic controller system so that water can be
of this system Arduino Uno R3 is supplied by DC SMPS. At managed by user during load shedding. Two systems work
first the system receives power supply from SMPS. Ultrasonic synergistically; automatic level controller system and SMS
sensor gets water level reading and it will send a signal to system. The program was developed in Aurdino program
microcontroller and starts to echo the pulses. The developing environment and uploaded to the Microcontroller.
disadvantages of this project is the cost involved in the devices Water level in the system is controlled automatically. The
that are used. controller operates on battery power. Whenever the system
Ajinkya Kaner, Milind Rane [7], proposed a circuit based encounters empty level and the status of load shedding, the
project called Automatic Water level Indicator and controller. SMS notification is sent to the user.
This system uses IN4007 diode and Light Emitting Diodes
(LED). The results of this project shows three LEDs indicating
different level of water in the tank. The main advantage of this III. METHODOLOGY
project is that, it is very simple in design and it can also be used “Water Tank Monitoring System” uses two sensors at two
to find various liquids and oil level in industries and chemical levels of the tank, i.e. one at the higher level of the tank and
labs too. Some modification in the project will result in a good the other at the lower level of the tank.
and efficient designed system.
Amrit Kumar Panigrahi, Chandan Kumar Singh [8], have
designed a system which displays information related to water
level in the tank and also controls a pump motor. This system
makes use of priority encoder which is interfaced with the
decoder and displays the information about the water level on
7 segment display. The decoder used is BCD-to-7-segment
decoder. The major advantage of this project is that, it reduces
the wastage of water by automatically turning off the pump
whenever the tank overflows.
EruaJ.Band, Anyasi [9], designed an Automatic Water Level
Controller. This design used a Float Switch, which is a device
used to detect the level of liquid within a tank. This switch can
be used in a pump, an indicator, an alarm or other devices. The
advantages of this systems are, it is relatively affordable,
durable and efficient, and also it provides ease of operation and
high level of reliability. It is also efficient enough in reducing
the stress that is associated with manual power water pump
controller. Figure 3.1 : Data Flow Diagram
Asaad Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Eltaieb, Zhang Jian
Min[10] implemented Automatic water level control system Figure 3.1 shows the dataflow diagram of water tank
consisted of arduino to automate the process of water pumping monitoring system. The system also uses an Android
in a tank and has the ability to detect the level of water in a application which is used by the user.
tank, switch on or off the pump accordingly and display the The proposed system works as follows:
status on an LCD screen. The system also monitoring the level
of water in the sump tank (source tank). If the level inside the

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1. When water level reaches the lower level sensor of the tank
(empty tank condition), a notification will be sent to the
android application that is used by the user. On receiving
the notification , user will turn ON the motor through the
app. (Manual).
2. When water level reaches the higher level sensor of the
tank, the motor will be turned OFF automatically.
Fig 3.2 shows the flow chart for water tank monitoring system.
“Water Tank Monitoring System” is introduced to overcome
the drawbacks in the existing system. In this system, as soon
the tank becomes empty, pump is automatically turned on. And
when the tank is full, pump is automatically turned off.
Raspberry Pi can be used to automate the system and to
monitor the water level.
Workflow:

Figure 4.2 Water tank app

The experimental setup is done as shown in figure 4.1 and the

app designed to handle the pump when tank is empty is shown
in Fig 4.2. And application helps user to monitor all the
activities that happen between the tank and the pump.
Features of the proposed solution are:
i. The automatic turning ON/OFF of the pump using
Raspberry Pi.
ii. Proper management of usage of water and control on
wastage of water.
V. CONCLUSION
Nowadays water is being wasted in many ways and wastage
due to overflowing of tanks is a major contributor for this.
Thus, Water Tank Monitoring System helps to reduce the
wastage of water due to overflowing by automatically turning
off the pump when the water level in the tank reaches a
threshold limit. Proposed system can also be enhanced by
Figure 3.2: Flowchart monitoring the entire activity through an app. An application
is developed to help the users turn on the pump through the
So this system creates barrier for wastage of water and
app and off the pump automatically.
provides more financial gain and energy saving. Also it
reduces the man power and increases the usage of technology.
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