An IoT-Based Water Management System for Smart Cities
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The ESP8285 is an ESP8266 with 1 MiB of built-in flash, allowing for single-chip
devices capable of connecting to Wi-Fi.
4 Blocks of Water Supply Architecture
This section gives a brief overview of the architecture of the smart city and how the
basic blocks of the city are laid out for the water transmission.
4.1 Block Structure of Smart City
The water management system in the smart city is solely based on the fact that the city
is divided into several blocks, and each block consists of several houses to which the
water is supplied. The paper assumes this block structure to ease the explanation. The
entire city is seen as a collection of blocks which are again recursively organized as
sub-blocks. The recursion can go up to a suitable level as would be required for efficient and effective management. Individual houses would be the atomic constituents
of such blocks. As shown in Fig. 4, initially the water is stored in the reservoir, from
where the water for the smart city is obtained. From the reservoir, it is directly sent to
the water treatment plant as it is treated to make it ready for use. Every outlet in the
water supply architecture is monitored using motorized valve for ease of activation.
Fig. 4 Microcontroller setup
253
The ESP8285 is an ESP8266 with 1 MiB of built-in flash, allowing for single-chip
devices capable of connecting to Wi-Fi.
4 Blocks of Water Supply Architecture
This section gives a brief overview of the architecture of the smart city and how the
basic blocks of the city are laid out for the water transmission.
4.1 Block Structure of Smart City
The water management system in the smart city is solely based on the fact that the city
is divided into several blocks, and each block consists of several houses to which the
water is supplied. The paper assumes this block structure to ease the explanation. The
entire city is seen as a collection of blocks which are again recursively organized as
sub-blocks. The recursion can go up to a suitable level as would be required for efficient and effective management. Individual houses would be the atomic constituents
of such blocks. As shown in Fig. 4, initially the water is stored in the reservoir, from
where the water for the smart city is obtained. From the reservoir, it is directly sent to
the water treatment plant as it is treated to make it ready for use. Every outlet in the
water supply architecture is monitored using motorized valve for ease of activation.
Fig. 4 Microcontroller setup