Internet of Things - Monitoring and Measuring Water Usage with ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module & Arduino

Internet of Things - Monitoring and
Measuring Water Usage with ESP8266
Wi-Fi Module & Arduino Uno
publishing to Thing Speak

LITERATURE REVIEW 1
Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Literature review...................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................9
References...........................................................................................................................................10

LITERATURE REVIEW 2
Introduction
The term IoT is defined as the internet of thing which connects two or more peripheral
devices with internet connectivity. It provides a platform to interconnect physical
devices like software, hardware, network systems, electronics with the other devices in
order to send and receive information (Abdullah, and Putra, 2017). In this modern era,
this technique is used to monitor and measure the water level with the help of a Wi-Fi
module and Arduino microcontroller kit (Alkandari, Alabduljader, and Moein, 2012).
The purpose of this study is to highlight the concept of the internet of thing and describe
the concept of water level measurement through the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module and
Arduino UNO and Thing speak software. In this report, a literature review will be
conducted in order to gather and evaluate the views of other experts and identify the
importance of IoT technology in the water management system.
Literature review
The internet of thing is very advanced technology of the information technology that
connects the physical devices with the internet for exchanging the information or data
from one location to another. This is one of the common topics for the investigation and
many researchers provided their views on water measurement through IoT technology
which will be discussed in the section. According to Anthony, (2018) the internet of
thing has the potential to control and monitor the level of water with the help of
Arduino UNO kit. The development of IoT technology by using an embedded system can
help consumers to monitor the water level and provide a notification to the user for
controlling the level of water in the tank.
Anthony, (2018) also provided the complete information about the water level
measurement with theoretical and practical results and identified that EPS8266 is one
of the best Wi-Fi modules which can be used for long-distance communication. The
major drawback of this paper is that the researcher did not provide advantages and
disadvantages of the IoT technology which create a research gap in students. This
literature review provides an in-depth analysis of the water level measurement by using
ESP8266 Wi-Fi and Arduino UNO. Arridha, et al., (2018) highlighted that the water level
system utilizes sensors and equipment’s to record the level of water in the tank and

LITERATURE REVIEW 3
data is transferred with the help of IoT technique. The data and information can be
obtained by the consumers by using Arduino UNO and think to speak and Arduino can
be used for the controlling and monitoring of water level. The researcher also identified
that it is very important to design and implement the water level measurement in order
to avoid the overflow of water from the tank.
The water controlling project is one of the common applications of IoT device used by
many consumers and they share signals with the help of the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module.
Chandramohan, et al., (2017) explained the working principles of IoT device and
process of water level measurement through arduino UNO. This journal paper is
developed for the explanation and illustration of advanced level water measurement
device based on the internet of thing technique. This device contains major three
sections such as hardware and software of information monitoring nodes, software for
the wireless nodes and software for the data base stations. The researcher identified
that the capacity range of the water measurement system is from 0 to 80 C on water
temperature but module ESP8266 cannot be used for long distance communication.
According to Encinas, et al., (2017) smart water level monitoring through IoT and
Arduino UNO is one of the best systems as compare to the other devices because it
provides the wireless connectivity between the water level indicator and sensors used
in the system. Moreover, the functions of the internet of thing can be controlled with the
help think to speak. This paper designed and implemented the water level
measurement system by using the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module and Arduino UNO
microcontroller. It is analysed that the think speak is defined as the open source IoT
application which is used in a system for storing and retrieving data from the water
level device.
Fatehnia, et al., (2016) evaluated that there are major two processes which can be used
to control and monitor the flow of water, for example, water level monitoring and water
pipeline leakage monitoring. In this investigation, the researcher used the water level
monitoring process where they design the water level measurement device by using
some sensors and hardware like Arduino UNO, water level indicator, and think to speak
to control and communication channels. As compared with the other articles this paper
provided the complete information about the water level measurement and researchers
also performed on the software think speak for better understanding.