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Low-Power Low-Cost Wireless Flood Sensor for Smart Home Systems

This paper presents the design of a wireless flood sensor to detect the presence of water on home floors, providing early warning of water leaks. A wireless sensor network has been deployed to gather the measurements from the sensor nodes. A control central coordinates the network and processes the...

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Autores principales: Teixidó, Pedro, Gómez-Galán, Juan Antonio, Gómez-Bravo, Fernando, Sánchez-Rodríguez, Trinidad, Alcina, Javier, Aponte, Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6263806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30405080
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18113817
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Sumario:This paper presents the design of a wireless flood sensor to detect the presence of water on home floors, providing early warning of water leaks. A wireless sensor network has been deployed to gather the measurements from the sensor nodes. A control central coordinates the network and processes the data. Users can remotely inquire for the presence of water, status of the batteries for a specific node, the type of liquid and information about its functionality and alarms, thanks to a proprietary software application. The alerts are also communicated to the user within the home through an audible siren. The designed device is optimized in terms of costs, ease of deployment and maintenance, thus making it widely acceptable to end users.