Water infrastructure is increasingly becoming an overlooked aspect of software and hardware development in the current age. As most people concentrate on developing applications, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing platforms, environmental monitoring systems have been addressing some of the important issues through technology.
Current water monitoring systems make use of IoT sensors that transmit data to the cloud dashboard where various parameters such as pH, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, and contamination possibilities are monitored in real time.
Some of the components of the smart water monitoring system include:
1.Environmental sensors
2.Microcontroller boards such as ESP32 or Arduino
3.LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, or cellular connectivity
4.Cloud storage and analytics
5.Real-time alerts
6.Dashboards
The intriguing problem is that such systems have to work in harsh real-world environments: remote locations, unreliable communication channels, extreme weather, and low power conditions.
Environmental technology becomes an intriguing field for engineering because it integrates elements of embedded systems, networking, cloud computing, and sustainability.
With climate change and water shortages becoming increasingly pressing global problems, engineers developing environmental monitoring systems might very well be creating some of the most influential infrastructures of the next decade.
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