IoT Application in River Monitoring: Methods and Challenges

Water pollution is a major threat both locally and globally to the sustainability of clean water. In Malaysia, river is a major source of water. Industry output, chemicals from agriculture sectors and constructions, sewage and water waste make sustainability of clean water a big challenge. Hence, the need for continuous and effective monitoring of river in order to maintain the water quality (WQ) of river. The existing methods of river water quality monitoring in Malaysia are Manual Water Quality Monitoring (MWQM) and Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM). These methods are non-real time, less effective, inaccuracy of data collection and also costly to be implemented. The use of internet of things (IoT) for real-time monitoring and analysis of water quality in rivers in Malaysia. Also has becoming famous these days because it provides solution to the consumer cover from short-range communication until long range communication technology. The aim of these paper is to identify different method for river monitoring and discuss the challenges of these methods so that more effective solution can be produce.