Distributed virtual instrument for water quality monitoring across the Internet

Author

Torán, F. ; Ramírez, D. ; Casans, S. ; Navarro, A.E. ; Pelegrí, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Bucharest Univ., Romania

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

652

Abstract

This paper shows the design of a distributed and multi-platform system for water quality monitoring, enhanced with Internet capabilities. The signal-conditioning block has been reduced in cost and dimensions through the use of software routines for thermal compensation. The measured variables are temperature, turbidity, pH, dissolved oxygen and electrical conductivity. There are several services offered to the user, such as e-mail alarm notifications, automatic storage of measured data in a remote machine via the FTP protocol, dynamic generation of HTML reports, real time graphs and indicators visible from a remote web browser, etc. The whole system supports several types of computers, operating systems and communications hardware

Keywords

Internet; alarm systems; compensation; condition monitoring; electrical conductivity measurement; hypermedia; pH measurement; temperature measurement; turbidimetry; virtual instrumentation; water pollution measurement; water supply; FTP protocol; H₂O; HTML reports; HTTP; Internet capabilities; automatic data storage; dissolved O measurement; distributed virtual instrument; dynamic report generation; e-mail alarm notifications; electrical conductivity; multi-platform system; pH measurement; real time graphs; signal-conditioning block; software routines; temperature measurement; thermal compensation; turbidity measurement; water quality monitoring; Conductivity measurement; Costs; Electric variables measurement; Electronic mail; Instruments; Internet; Protocols; Storage automation; Temperature measurement; Thermal variables measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2000. IMTC 2000. Proceedings of the 17th IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5890-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2000.848817

Filename

848817