A smart water metering system.

Abstract

Water is an essential resource to the human race, it used for domestic consumption, industrial use, in agriculture, hospitals and in various institutions. Due to its demand and being limited, water must be used with accountability. The government of Uganda through NWSC takes responsibility to bill water usage and hence get revenue. However, a lot of money is spent on connection and disconnection process. Customers can also be inconvenienced by bills for monthly arrears not arriving on time and sometimes the constant monthly movements and long queues in order to settle their monthly arrears result into a waste of time and loss of revenue to national water and sewerage corporation (NWSC). Therefore, this project was aimed at developing a smart water metering system where customers use water which they have paid for, i.e. prepaid water. The designed system is able to disconnect and connect the customer after paying for water.