Development of Proto Type Automatic Water Level Controller Device

Water scarcity is one of the major problems facing major cities of the country, and wastage during transmission has been identified as a major culprit. This is one of the motivations for this research, to deploy electronics techniques in creating a barrier to wastage in order to not only provide more financial gains and energy saving, but also help the environment and water cycle which in turn ensures water conservation for our future. We presented our research in embedding a control system in to an automatic water pump controller through the use of different technologies in its design, development, and implementation. The system uses microcontroller to automate the process of water pumping in an over-head tank storage system and has the ability to detect the level of water in a tank, switch on/off the pump accordingly, and displays the status on an LCD screen. We, the researchers have successfully designed and tasted the prototype form of ‘Automatic plant irrigator device’ in Debre Berhan University. Two main purposes of this automated water-level controller are due to the high level precision of the device, the water-level controller by itself can be used to control ‘on’ and ‘off’ conditions of the motor that delivers water to the over-head tank on the top of the building depending upon the level of water in the tank This also gives much needed rest to the farmers, as they don't have to go and turn the pump on/off manually. More generally this research project represents developing prototype form of automatic water-level controller device by using embedded system Arduino microcontroller.