Student Name: AARABHI REMESH
Guide Name: Dr. Anish K. John, Assistant Professor, GEC Barton Hill
Project Area: INTERNET OF THINGS
Year: 2020 , Duration: 1
Monitoring the underground water distribution network has been an albatross around the
neck, due to a lot of economic and scientific reasons. A state of the art system to monitor
and control water distribution is pivotal to meet the future demands of water.
Implementing an IoT strategy can overcome this limitation and thereby introducing a
smart water system. But the device data thus collected face a threat of being tampered or
corrupted; thus defeating the purpose. To ensure the security of data and to enable data
transparency, blockchain is proposed. Blockchain could usher in a paradigm shift in the
distributed water management. Realtime transparent data on water quality and quantity
can inform conservation, spot illegal extraction or water tampering. The major peril
present situation is the leaks occurring in the distribution pipes which when left
undetected can cause a sizable loss of the resource. Household smart meters can produce
large volumes of data that can be used to predict water flows, spot inconsistencies and
check leaks. The current work aims to conceptualize a smart system to correctly identify
the leaks or abnormalities in the distribution pipes by using the combined features of IoT
and blockchain. When blockchain is implemented on the IoT devices, it brings in data
provenance and integrity and reduction of non-revenue water losses enabling the realtime
monitoring of the water system. A smart water meter is designed which accurately
measures the flow rate and the total amount of water that is passing through the system.
The system is integrated with real-time flow monitoring and flow control mechanism,
thus satisfying the objective of initiating the process of reduction in Non- revenue water
losses happening at the customer level. A Web application was developed which acts as a
medium to showcase the data generated from the smart meter.
Keywords: Water distribution system, Internet of things, Blockchain
