A Novel Water Quality Monitoring System Based on Solar Power Supply & Wireless Sensor Network

Abstract This paper presents a water quality monitoring system using wireless sensor network (WSN) technology and powered by solar panel. In order to monitor water quality in different field sites and in real-time, a novel system architecture constituted by several distributed sensor nodes and a base station is suggested. The nodes and base station are connected using WSN technology. A prototype system using one node powered by solar cell and WSN technology is designed and implemented. Data collected by various sensors in the node side such as pH, turbidity and oxygen density is sent via WSN to the base station. The system has advantages such as low carbon emission, low power consumption, more flexible to deploy and so on.

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