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Development of a Low-Power Smart Water Meter for Discharges in Indus Basin Irrigation Networks

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Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries (WSN4DC 2013)

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To improve the sampling frequency of water diversion to distributary canals and to improve equity of distribution and data handling we have developed a smart electronic water meter based on ultrasonic sensors and GPRS modem to frequently record and transmit the water diversion data to a centralized server. The server processes the data to extract useful information for example seasonal cumulative water deliveries and discharge time series. The Wireless Sensor Node (WSN) inspired design is extremely low-power, field deployable and scalable with respect to cost and numbers. This paper, reports the first steps towards practical realization of a smart water grid in the Indus river basin, conceptualized by the authors in previous theoretical studies.

The authors would like to acknowledge financial support provided by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, Islamabad, Pakistan through Grant #22294 used in part for the partnership between IWMI and LUMS to undertake the research described in this work.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, SBA School of Science & Engineering, LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

    Zahoor Ahmad, Ehsan U. Asad & Abubakr Muhammad

  2. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Pakistan Office 12km Multan Road, Lahore, Pakistan

    Waqas Ahmad & Arif Anwar

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  1. IICT, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Faisal Karim Shaikh

  2. Faculty of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology,, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Bhawani Shankar Chowdhry

  3. College of Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, 48128, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Habib M. Ammari

  4. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology,, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    Muhammad Aslam Uqaili

  5. Kulliyyah of Information and Communicatiion Technology, International Islamic University, Malaysia

    Assadullah Shah

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Ahmad, Z., Asad, E.U., Muhammad, A., Ahmad, W., Anwar, A. (2013). Development of a Low-Power Smart Water Meter for Discharges in Indus Basin Irrigation Networks. In: Shaikh, F.K., Chowdhry, B.S., Ammari, H.M., Uqaili, M.A., Shah, A. (eds) Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries. WSN4DC 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 366. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41054-3_1

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