LoRaWAN-based Smart Sewerage Monitoring System

Remote control and monitoring techniques have significant important role in reducing pollution from Sewerage systems. Over the last few decades, the SCADA technology and telemetry have been widely used for remote monitoring sewerage system and infrastructure which includes the equipment and instruments. With the advent of LoRaWAN, we have been witnessing a growing use of LoRaWAN-based sewerage remote monitoring system. Besides being a cost effective solution, LoRaWAN-based sewerage monitoring system can gather data from all of the sensors installed in different locations, analyze the data, and alert relevant authorities if any actions are required. In this paper, we aim at introducing a smart sewerage system based on LoRaWAN and Cloud computing technologies. The solution we introduce in this paper use IoT devices and a workforce ticketing platform which will contribute to the reduction of CAPEX and OPEX along with improved productivity, data reliability and flexibility. Furthermore, we propose to incorporate forecasting algorithm for understanding the sewage water level in the near future, thereby allowing the proposed smart sewerage system to anticipate any potential issues and make proactive decision if required. We also demonstrate in this work that by correlating the sewage water level with other external factors (e.g. rainfall data) one can have opportunity to learn the underlying factors contributing to level of sewage water.