Published on: May 2026
DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING OF A LOW-COST, AUTOMATED WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS AND REPORTING SYSTEM FOR RURAL AND URBAN WATER SOURCES
Syed Moula Hussain T Mohamed Shahid Mohammed Muzammil Mohammed Mehtab
Praveen Ashok M
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Water quality monitoring is essential for safeguarding public health, environmental sustainability, and efficient water resource management. Conventional laboratory-based methods, although accurate, are costly, time-consuming, and unable to capture real-time variations in water quality. This study presents the design and prototyping of a low-cost, automated water quality analysis and reporting system capable of continuous monitoring in both rural and urban environments.
The system integrates multiple sensors for measuring pH, turbidity, total dissolved solids (TDS), electrical conductivity (EC), and temperature using an ESP32 microcontroller. Advanced features such as calibration tracking, quality assurance flags, temperature compensation, and real-time data transmission via IoT platforms are incorporated to enhance reliability. The system supports local visualization through an LCD display and remote monitoring using the ThingSpeak cloud platform.
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Hussain, S. M., Shahid, T. M., Muzammil, M. & Mehtab, M. (2026). Design and Prototyping of a Low-Cost, Automated Water Quality Analysis and Reporting System for Rural and Urban Water Sources. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(05). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i5.447
Hussain, Syed, et al.. "Design and Prototyping of a Low-Cost, Automated Water Quality Analysis and Reporting System for Rural and Urban Water Sources." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 05, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i5.447.
Hussain, Syed,T Shahid,Mohammed Muzammil, and Mohammed Mehtab. "Design and Prototyping of a Low-Cost, Automated Water Quality Analysis and Reporting System for Rural and Urban Water Sources." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 05 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i5.447.
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