Automatização no processo de leitura de hidrômetros

Abstract

The process of meter reading, also called micro-measurement, which accounts for the consumption of water in households supplied by water utilities, presents many opportunities for improvements to the application of new technologies and automation electronics. This paper presents the development of a prototype composed by an electronic microcontroller that uses communication by radio frequency waves, as proposed to automate the process of meter reading units consume water. Currently the process is carried out by visual inspection in most Brazilian companies sanitation. In the survey, some technologies were examined as alternatives for the realization of the project, coming to the conclusion that the zigbee protocol, based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard, the embedded microprocessor platform arduino, presents itself as a viable alternative to the application in question. The embedded system automates the process by monitoring the individual consumption of water in real time and sending instantaneous values of flow, by radio waves communication, to a central, which stores the values in a database for subsequent management. The main advantage offered by this system is automated micromeasurement eliminating the need and cost related to the visual reading.