Water level monitoring systems

Reliable and steady water supply is a necessity to any farming domain and more importantly
so for livestock farms. Adequate and optimum water intake is crucial in producing healthy
and productive cattle. Cattle farms would generally comprise of stable complex and vast
graze lands.
The cattle would be usually fended to these graze lands for the whole day. There would be
water holders, of different shapes and size installed in these graze lands for the cattle to drink
from. It is absolutely necessary to apply water level monitoring systems in these holders and
notify the farm keepers when the level of water has breached the lower threshold mark. If the
water level recedes at a higher rate, it accounted to leakage in that particular holder and can
be immediately notified to the user..

Applications of water level monitoring in cattle farm

A wireless water level monitoring system would allow the cattle farm owners to monitor the
water in the holders without actually stepping on to the field. Earlier one farm attendant had
to go and inspect each of the water holders manually, which cost time and money for the farm
owners. The sensor modules, installed in the water holders should not be a hindrance for the
cattle to drink from the holder. The data coming from the sensors would be processed by a
cloud based gateway and if the level reaches below the threshold point, appropriate
notifications would be sent to a web server.
Since the cattle graze land is spread across hectares of land, it is necessary to have long range
communication systems. Long range communication protocols like LoRa and SigFox can be
used for data communication processes. Push notifications can be implemented for alerting
the users regarding the water level dip. Custom mobile applications can be built for viewing
the data in a hand held device. WeMakeIoT has recently come up with innovative IoT based
water level monitoring solutions for large livestock farms. For details, do drop in a message.