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What sensors are used for water quality monitoring?

Water is the source of human existence: factories stop water, production can not be carried out; family lack of water, life is limited everywhere; land drought, more reflect the importance of water ...... In short, leaving the water, many human life will be limited. But with the industrial level, factory wastewater and daily life sewage and so on different degrees of discharge, so that the river, lake, river, sea and so on by different degrees of pollution, in order to carry out the management of water quality, we must grasp the situation of the parameters of the water.

Water quality monitoring refers to the uniformly timed or untimed testing of a number of parameters such as pH, dissolved oxygen, ammonia nitrogen, residual chlorine, electrical conductivity, temperature, and so on.

Water quality monitoring plays an important role in maintaining the health of the water environment. For drinking water, drinking water national standard PH value of up to 8.5, PH value is too high will neutralize stomach acid, thus affecting the human body's digestive ability, at the same time is not conducive to the intestinal tract's own ability to kill bacteria, and the mineral content is too high also has a negative impact on the body, especially once the heavy metal content, will be the human body's kidneys, the nervous system and other unfavorable damage.

So water quality testing for people's health to provide protection, water testing is a matter of livelihood, not to be underestimated, this is its importance.

In the water quality detection equipment, IoT sensor manufacturers have more of a first mover advantage and greater flexibility. Now there have been a number of sensor manufacturers have not only to provide sensing chips and modules, more through self-research adapted to the relevant scene of the sensor equipment, through the self-research of the general cloud platform, to provide customers with a complete set of water quality testing solutions.

With the rapid development of sensor companies as well as analytical technology, water quality testing will gradually miniaturization, real-time, flexible customization direction, how to improve the monitoring range of products, accuracy, sensitivity and other performance will be the future of the sensor companies in the water quality testing and even the entire environmental monitoring within the most important direction of development.

Water quality monitoring system through the water quality PH value, residual chlorine, turbidity, suspended solids, COD, BOD, conductivity, dissolved oxygen and other parameters of the data acquisition, parameters, data remote transmission to the Internet of Things cloud platform, to achieve real-time monitoring of the data of the site of the various water quality analyzers, the water quality monitoring system can be adapted to a variety of Internet of Things applications, real-time monitoring and management of the access to the state of the equipment and the operation of the analyzer, and the quality of water analyzers The water quality monitoring system can be adapted to various Internet of Things application systems, real-time monitoring and management of the status and operation of the access equipment, and remote operation of the water quality analyzer, through the cloud platform to dock the Internet of Things equipment to achieve accurate perception, precise operation and fine management.

Water quality sensors have a wide range of applications:

Water quality monitoring in waterworks and wastewater treatment plants: Water quality sensors can monitor the indicators in tap water and wastewater in real time, providing strong data support for water quality treatment.

Aquaculture industry: Water quality sensors can be used to monitor the oxygen content, temperature, PH value and other indicators in the aquaculture water, to help farmers control water quality and improve the efficiency of aquaculture.

Environmental monitoring of rivers, lakes and oceans: Water quality sensors can be used to monitor the concentration of pollutants, nutrient content, oxygen content and other indicators in the water body, providing data support for environmental protection and resource management.

Smart home and smart agriculture: Water quality sensors can be used in the field of smart home and smart agriculture to monitor water quality indicators in water bodies, providing intelligent data support for home and agricultural production.

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