Automatic water level control using LabVIEW

Hemin Ismael Azeez; Narongrit Pimkumwong; Shih-Chung Chen

doi:10.24017/science.2017.3.28

Authors

Hemin Ismael Azeez Communication Engineering Department, Technical college of Engineering, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, Sulaimani, Iraq
Narongrit Pimkumwong Electrical Engineering Department, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology Tainan, Taiwan
Shih-Chung Chen Electrical Engineering Department, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology Tainan, Taiwan

Abstract

Shortage in water supply is one of the major issues that some major cities throughout the world are facing nowadays. Due to not having full day water supply, households will have to efficiently manage the problem of water shortage and overcome the crises. This paper presents a system that indicates and controls the level of water in overhead tanks. Ultra-sonic sensors are employed to detect the level of the water between predefined minimum and maximum levels. LabVIEW which is a graphical programming language that uses a dataflow model is used to program microcontroller board Arduino UNO that is an interface between the software and the rest of the circuit components. From measured results good performance and accurate results are achieved.

Keywords:

LabVIEW, microcontroller, absolute error.

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