Prototipo para el monitoreo de flujos de recursos hídricos: Desarrollo e implementación de un sistema estructural y acústico, con control electrónico de foco para la adquisición de datos.

Abstract

At present, it is important to monitor the flow that circulates in the pipes that connect the city's water system in order to avoid damage to the pipes due to excess water circulating through them. It is also important to monitor channels that are open in order to avoid their overflow. It is for these reasons that this work focuses on the implementation of a structural and acoustic system for flow monitoring. The structural system refers to the casing that covers the electronic system, while the acoustic system refers to the electronics that are developed to obtain a flow detector that bases its operation on the ultrasonic signal, so that from this signal the data of the flow that circulates through the pipe is obtained. In addition, the prototype to be developed has a data acquisition system that takes the values delivered by the measurement stage and the power stage, corresponding to flow rate and battery percentage, respectively. Once the values are acquired, they are encapsulated to be sent via WiFi to the data processing stage. The data acquisition device works with a client-server architecture, where the data acquisition card acts as the client and sends the encapsulated data to a Web server, a stage where the data processing is carried out, to be displayed on a web page or application.