MONEY EARNING RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM IN HOME

ABSTRACT:

Water conservation has risen to be an important issue in today’s society.

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is a simple method by which rainfall is collected for
future usage. The collected rainwater may be stored, utilized in different ways or
directly used for recharge purposes. With depleting groundwater levels and
fluctuating climate conditions, RWH can go a long way to help mitigate these
effects. But due to public’s apathy and busy schedule, no one is ready to do RWH
as a part of his/her life. By keeping this issue in mind, we are proposing an easily
implemented idea for RWH that will also provide some benefits to public.

EXISTING SYSTEM:

In existing system, there is no automated/advanced system for RWH. Even

though government takes many useful steps to increase ground water level by
RWH, public’s contribution is much lesser for that. Government has announced
that everyone should implement RWH system in the house. But no one is ready to
obey it. Some people have implemented traditional RWH setup but do not maintain
properly. To solve these kind of issues, we are proposing an automated system to
harvest rainwater and to increase ground water level.

DISADVANTAGE:

 No automated system for RWH.

 Public’s apathy.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:

The proposed system consists of a rain sensor to detect the occurrence of rainfall.
When rainfall begins, an alert will be intimated by buzzer to person based on
output of rain sensor. When rain water from terrace begins to flow through pipe, a
water flow sensor implemented at the top of pipe, measures the flow level.
Simultaneously, another water flow sensor implemented at end of pipe, also the
water flow level to detect whether any leakage occurs in pipe. This leakage
checking is done by comparing the output values of two flow sensors.

Rain does not fall only in terrace but also falls in surrounding of house. This stay
water should also be saved. For that, a water level sensor is used to measure the
level of stay water. By chance of reaching threshold value, water sucking
mechanism is activated to suck the stay water and fill it to tank through pipe. The
quantity of water saved will be updated to monitoring sector through Internet of
Things (IoT). Based on the quantity of water, certain level of points will be
credited in RF card given to the person. By using the credit points, he/she can get
water in any public place.

ADVANTAGE:

 Easy to install
 Ground water level can be increased.
 Tendency to attract public to install this system due to fund.
BLOCK DIAGRAM:

POWER
SUPPLY

LCD
RAIN SENSOR

WATER FLOW
SENSOR 1
WATER LEVEL
SENSOR
MICRO-CONTROLLER WATER FLOW
SENSOR 2
LID CONTROL
MECHANISM
IOT

DRIVER
CIRCUIT BUZZER

WATER SUCKING
MECHANISM

Automated System for Rain Water Harvesting

HARDWARE COMPONENTS:
 MICROCONTROLLER
 RAIN SENSOR
 WATER LEVEL SENSOR
 WATER FLOW SENSORS
 DRIVER CIRCUIT
  WATER SUCKING MECHANISM
 LID CONTROL MECHANISM
 BUZZER
 LCD
 IOT
 POWER SUPPLY

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:
 ATMEGA IDE / MPLAB IDE
 EMBEDDED C