Design and Development of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for Water Quality Monitoring Using Zigbee

This paper presents the implementation of Wireless Sensor Network for water quality tracking using Zigbee. For continuous monitoring a number of sensor nodes with networking ability can be installed using wireless sensor network for water quality monitoring. In water quality monitoring the parameters involved are pH, and turbidity. These parameters are measured in real time by the sensors that send the data to monitoring room/control station (Base station). Such monitoring system can be setup on the aspect of low cost, low power consumption, easy handling, installation and maintenance. The system consists of sensor nodes (pH Sensor, Turbidity Sensor), a microcontroller, a Zigbee radio, and a base station (Zigbee radio and microcontroller). For comparing routing results of different topologies OPNET simulator is used.