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Hydration Automation (HA): Smart Tank

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Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2023)

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Many agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) solutions focus on the monitoring and management of water in irrigation or storage systems. The hydration automation (HA) automated water monitoring and management system utilizes low cost, small form factor, and sustainable sensing units (SUs) to collect water level reading of water storage systems through the use of an ultrasonic sensor and actuating units (AUs) for automating the control of valves and pumps that are operated via a Base Station. The SUs and AUs are housed in water proof, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly custom-built 3D printed casings and often placed miles away from each other in agricultural lands. This necessitates the existence of a long-range communication subsystem which utilizes the ÂB communication protocol atop of LoRa or other link layer protocols. This setup of the HA system, effective for monitoring and operating multi-tank irrigation systems, is however an overkill for systems comprising only a single water tank. Furthermore, the HA system thus far had not included a mechanism for remote emptying or decreasing of the existing water levels of water tanks. A capability that is, for instance, needed for preventing damage to the tanks when freezing of the water is possible. This paper discusses the implementation of a smart tank for the HA system which comprises an AU for water level control automation and is controlled directly by a minimally enhanced SU rather than a specialized Base Station.

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Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Professor Michael McElfresh from the Electrical Engineering Department at Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering for his continued support of the project in providing his ranch (Red Thistle Ranch [34]) and water tanks as a test bed for the hydration automation (HA) project. Also thanks to Santa Clara University’s Frugal Innovation Hub [35] for their help in seeking out funding for prototyping which was generously obtained from EPICS in IEEE [36], in the form of a starter grant to initiate the HA project. And thanks to the Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Bronco Venture Accelerate (BVA) [37] at Santa Clara University for seeing the potential in the HA system and its assistance in the development of business plans and pitch decks for attracting potential investments that could bring the HA system to the market.

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    Navid Shaghaghi, Peter Ferguson, Adam Graham & Jesse Mayer

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Shaghaghi, N., Ferguson, P., Graham, A., Mayer, J. (2024). Hydration Automation (HA): Smart Tank. In: Yang, XS., Sherratt, R.S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. ICICT 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 695. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3043-2_34

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