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Quality and leakage detection based water pricing scheme for multi-consumer building with real-time implementation using IoT

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Nowadays, multi-consumer buildings are growing rapidly as living place in city or megacity of developing nation to accommodate large group of people. The urban people are facing bigger threat on water prone disease i.e., water quality is stringent requirement. Here, traditional fixed or block rate tariff does not provide price reduction for comparatively poor water quality. Though water quality is a vital factor, this is not significantly focused in the traditional policies for strictly ensuring safe water from supplier’s end. Thus, a novel tariff policy is proposed for multi-family building. Here, rebate amounts due to violations of turbidity, pH value, electrical conductivity, chlorine and coliform count are proposed. In an illustrative simulation study, water price is reduced by 5%–27% in comparison with fixed and block rate tariffs for violation of electrical conductivity. In IoT based working prototype, it is observed rebate due to inferior water quality is significant proportion (about 25%) of total cost. Here, charge on leakage water is also segregated from consumption cost, which is not possible in case of traditional tariffs. Therefore, price penalty for quality violation and leakage water cost segregation are assured through suggested policy.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, JIS College of Engineering, Nadia, Kalyani, India

    Sudip Das

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Kalyani Government Engineering College, Nadia, Kalyani, India

    Pritam Kumar Gayen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata, India

    Souvik Pal

  4. Graduate School, Faculty of Information Technology, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam

    Anand Nayyar

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Das, S., Gayen, P.K., Pal, S. et al. Quality and leakage detection based water pricing scheme for multi-consumer building with real-time implementation using IoT. Multimed Tools Appl 82, 26317–26352 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14402-4

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