A remote system for water tank level monitoring and control - a collaborative case-study

This paper presents the design and implementation of a remote experiment for controlling the level of a two-tank system. It describes also the management of the team work: it was performed in a remote collaborative methodology by two students of the fourth year of the Industrial Electronics Master Course at University of Minho (UM) and one student from the third year of the Industrial Informatics course of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA), both high education institutions in Minho region. It is a project work, implemented by undergraduate students and for future students use. The experiment is controlled using an on-off controller and a PID algorithm. The kit is monitored by a custom developed LabVIEW environment. The remote user can test the digital algorithms and parameters, change level reference values and register the output data.