Arduino based water usage meter

Posted on March 10, 2011 by R-B One comment |

This project (from Teague Labs) was intended to study the usage of water for various purposes and how this information could affect behaviors of persons using water when displayed on real time. The water meter sensor used in this project is INS-FM17N from Koolance. The sensor is directly interfaced to an Arduino that acquires and send data to a web server to make it available online.

Data are visualized in terms of graphs that can be accessed through laptop, iPhone, iPad, or other devices that can connect to internet. An iPad can be placed next to the faucet to observe the immediate feedback from the user when the water usage information is displayed in real time.