EMBEDDED FPGA SOLUTION FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM - Calibration and Measurement

Octavian Postolache, Miguel Dias Pereira, Pedro Girão

2006

Abstract

This paper presents a field operating water quality monitoring system based on real time controller and FPGA module. The system features functioning includes in-situ automatic cleaning and calibration of stand alone sensors such as turbidity, pH or conductivity, on-line measurement of water quality parameters using the calibrated sensors. In order to perform the above mentioned calibration and measurement tasks the system uses a set of centrifugal pumps and electrovalves and associated embedded control materialized by the LabVIEW programmed FPGA module. The voltages associated with water quality measurement channels are acquired using a four channels analog input module that work also under FPGA control. The data processing tasks are distributed between the FPGA module and the real-time controller included in the system. A practical approach concerning the sensor model implementation capabilities using the real-time controller (NI cRIO-9002) or FPGA (NI cRIO-9003) is also included. In order to provide the wireless remote control of the system an Ethernet – wireless bridge (IEEE802.11g) and client-server TCP software developed in LabVIEW were included in the system. A PDA based remote control solution was also implemented to evaluate system performance.

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in Harvard Style

Postolache O., Dias Pereira M. and Girão P. (2006). EMBEDDED FPGA SOLUTION FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM - Calibration and Measurement . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO, ISBN 978-972-8865-61-0, pages 154-160. DOI: 10.5220/0001221301540160


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icinco06,
author={Octavian Postolache and Miguel Dias Pereira and Pedro Girão},
title={EMBEDDED FPGA SOLUTION FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM - Calibration and Measurement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,},
year={2006},
pages={154-160},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001221301540160},
isbn={978-972-8865-61-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 3: ICINCO,
TI - EMBEDDED FPGA SOLUTION FOR WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM - Calibration and Measurement
SN - 978-972-8865-61-0
AU - Postolache O.
AU - Dias Pereira M.
AU - Girão P.
PY - 2006
SP - 154
EP - 160
DO - 10.5220/0001221301540160