Water Tank Level Sensor Raspberry Pi

The meter will need to be calibrated to get an exact volume measurement.

Water tank level sensor raspberry pi.

The raspberry pi reads the status of one or two water sensor device s on one or two of its gpio pins. There are many ways to measure. Introduction hello everybody i am shafin a member of aiversity. Many of these use magnetic reed switches that never touch the water even when fully submerged.

The schematic shows a raspberry pi a but this set up will work on any pi. I have another tank that needs a level sensor added maybe with a temp and humidity sensor on it too. Using a yf s201 flowmeter on a raspberry pi the code uses python to populate a database. Water level sensor is simple and cheaper sensor that identify the amount of water through exposed parallel line track easy to complete analog signal change from the water level detection the work voltage of this sensor is dc 3v 5v and use 3 3v in this tutorial.

When water is detected the raspberry pi emails out an alert to a recipient group and calls a phone number list via voip playing a stored wave file with a spoken alert phrase. This project is going to help you to understand the working of raspberry pi in detail. The hcsr04 is placed on the roof of water tank. The flow meter on the dual house pumps that switch over when one fails and measure how much water we use would be perfect.

The water level sensor s s pin is connected to ch0 adc channel 0. Size maybe has to touch the water. An optional bi color led connected in series with 330 ω resistors to gpio 14 and 15 provides feedback. Water level indicator using raspberry piand bottle server 0 i want to create a raspberry pi water level monitor system using hcsr04 ultrasonic range sensor.

I could add some valving on the tanks so they automatically change when they get low. It s tough bilge pump float sensor. Water level monitor with raspberry pi. The plus and minus pins go to 3 3 v and ground respectively.

Version 1 0 published in jan 2015.