Water Manager: A System Based on Hardware and Software for User Consumption Monitoring

Abstract

The task of water monitoring has become a necessary action to provide substantial information to users and to reduce unnecessary expenses caused by increasing water waste during different human activities, for example, long showers and car washing. In this context, an online monitoring tool can be a way to improve how people use this valuable resource. This work describes the production process of a water managing system composed by hardware and software, and exposes the relevance of its use in different environments, such as laboratory, public local residences, and others. In order to prove the efficiency, the equipment was implanted and tested in both a laboratory and in a house. During the experiments the information was stored on an online server and retrieved through an Android application for presentation in graphical and statistical formats. The results obtained during the experiments prove the efficiency of the proposed solution.