An automated water consumption management system with water leak detection using mobile application

Abstract

The importance of water sustainability has long been recognized across the globe and it is considered as one of the most important commodities that is very essential in all of humanity’s basic functions. In the Philippines or like most in the other nations, in order to control the water supply, most of them relies on reading the water-metering system manually. Wherein this kind of processes is very time consuming and locating where the possible leakage is hard to identify. Due to these reasons, the proponent of this study comes up with an idea to create a solution with these problems. One of the objectives is to develop An Automated Water Consumption Management System with Water Leak Detection Using Mobile Application wherein it can monitor the rate of water-flow in real time basis; can calculate the amount of water consumes; and notify the end user if water leakage exists. These capabilities help the end-user to prevent the high consumption of water due to water leakage and unnecessary use of water. In addition, this study focuses also on controlling the said device (waterflow sensor) manually when a particular leakage exists, and the special features added to the application is that it can send an alert or notification message to the end-user. In terms of design of the project development, the proponents rely on the use of Agile Methodology in order to identify and solve the common problems that will exist on the phase of developing this study.