Abstract:
More than 3 billion people lack access to safe water for
drinking. Availability and access to water services are fundamental in
preserving the health and well-being of humans. The quality of water
has to be of a certain degree to be considered safe for consumption.
Storage vessels tend to develop microbes over time lowering the
quality of water. These microbes are capable of causing infectious
diseases such as flu and measles. There is also strong evidence that
they may play a role in non-infectious chronic diseases like cancer and
heart disease. Water level monitoring is also of utmost importance
when dealing with water storage tanks. This paper seeks to address the
challenges of water quality and level monitoring by use of low-power
sensors on an MKR WIFI 1010 module to obtain data on the state of
water in the tank. The data is then sent to a Mobile app for observation
and initiation of the required response. The prototype utilized a
Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) IoT technology
