Authors:
Evizal Abdul Kadir
1
;
Abdul Syukur
1
;
Bahruddin Saad
2
and
Sri Listia Rosa
1
Affiliations:
1
Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Islam Riau, Pekanbaru, Indonesia, Indonesia
;
2
Department of Fundamental and Applied Science Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Seri Iskandar, Perak, 32610, Malaysia, Malaysia
Keyword(s):
WSNs, Smart Sensor Node, River Water, Pollution.
Abstract:
Indonesia is one of the countries that have many rivers and lakes. It is situated, in South East Asia and
enjoys tropical climate all year round. Riau province is located in the centre and middle of Sumatera Island which in the heart of Sumatera. This province has more than five big rivers that are used by the community every day for their daily activities. The rapid economic development has significant impact to the region where many industries operating along the river produce industrial wastes that pollutes the river water. This chapter discusses the development of river water monitoring system where several relevant parameters are
monitored. The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) applied in this research integrates sensor node that is embed to multi sensor consist of temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, and electrical conductivity. The system for monitoring is specially design for ability to monitor level of river water, river water flow rate for
environment and flood alert sy
stem. WSNs sensor nodes collects information from the multiple sensors and forwards to the WSNs sink nodes which embed to the microcontroller memory and unit as a local database before send the information to the monitoring system. The monitoring system shows the vital information
that can be monitored by institutions or local authorities. Prompt action will be can be taken if abnormality is
raised by the monitoring system. A prototype of this WSNs nodes designed and tested and the results show that sensor nodes are reliable for the detection of polluted water parameters, water levels as well as river flow rate. Furthermore, sensor node was tested at the Siak river located in Riau Province the compare results with
actual river water. All the data were keep in the database for recording of analysis and for future development of monitoring system.
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