A Non-Intrusive Water Consumption Monitoring System
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2-8-2021
Abstract
Water is an essential resource for humans as it is used in many activities for both leisure and hygiene. However; the technology available in monitoring water consumption is limited to the traditional flowmeter. Households and small buildings rely only on the end-of-month billing by the water distributor. This study presents a water monitoring system that uses a pressure sensor which is a non-intrusive method of determining water activity. Aside from calculating the volume of water consumed; the system implements fixture recognition using machine learning as its main feature. This provides more information to users allowing them to identify appliances or fixtures that consume a lot of water. Multiple test sites were used with varying pipe networks from building restrooms to houses to see its viability. Results show that the fixture recognition; using preprocessing techniques; improved in performance with accuracy 88 %; precision of 91 %; recall at 88 %; leading to an f1-score of 87 %.
Recommended Citation
Somontina, J. A., & Macabebe, E. Q. (2020). A non-intrusive water consumption monitoring system. 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342898
