Canal automation using LabVIEW

Author

Bhat, Shubhangi P. ; Hirekhan, Sunil R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Gov. Coll. of Eng., Aurangabad, India

fYear

2015

fDate

6-8 May 2015

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

395

Abstract

Canal automation plays an important role in water conveyance system. It provides rapid transfer of water with frequent changes, while incorporating flexibility in operation. This paper proposes a local automatic, downstream, demand-oriented canal automation system using LabVIEW. It deals with the hardware devices which sense the available water quantity, computes the amount of water discharge and operates actuators through LabVIEW based software control system for regulating the water flow. The LabVIEW software module is used which automates process control, provides better accuracy, and reduces the cost.

Keywords

canals; control engineering computing; flow control; process control; virtual instrumentation; water supply; LabVIEW based software control system; actuators; demand-oriented canal automation system; downstream canal automation system; local automatic canal automation system; process control; water conveyance system; water discharge; water flow regulation; Automation; Irrigation; Logic gates; Nickel; Optical feedback; Optical sensors; Automation; Head regulator and Cross regulator; LabVIEW; canal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM), 2015 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-9854-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSTM.2015.7225448

Filename

7225448