IRJET - Smart Underground Drainage Blockage Monitoring and Detection System using IoT

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Smart Underground Drainage Blockage Monitoring and Detection
System Using IoT
Ankita Karale*, Snehal Dhurjad1, Seema Lahamage2, Mansi Chaudhari3, Arati Gend4
*Professor, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Center, Maharashtra, India
1,2,3,4U.G. Student, Sandip Institute of Technology and Research Center , Maharashtra, India
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Abstract - India has announced a project of making smart
cities. For making a smart city one needs to consider many
parameters such as smart home, smart television, smart
transportation etc. There will be need of smart underground
framework which includes underground water pipelines
interaction cables, gas, pipelines, electric flow etc. In India
adoption of underground Drainage system is very
important. This system work in a proper manner to keep the
city clean safe and healthy. If they fail to maintain the
drainage system, pure water may get contaminated with
drainage water and can spread infectious diseases. Also
various harmful gases are spread in air and it produces air
pollution so different kind of work has been done to detect,
monitor and manage these underground systems. This
project represent the implementation and design functions
for monitoring, detecting and managing underground
drainage system with different approaches
Key Words: Drainage, Gas sensor, Arduino, Ultrasonic
sensor, SMS(Short Service Message)
1. INTRODUCTION
Drainage system plays a very important role in big city
where millions of people live. Drainage system in known as
the base for and dryness from the excess and unused
water, rain water and waste water. Monitoring of drainage
manually is not possible. The irregular monitoring has
contribution on the blocking of the drainage that imply to
the salutation which trigger flooding in the neighborhood
manual monitoring is also incompetent. It needs a lot of
dedicated persons who are only able to record limited
report with low accuracy.
The problem arises in such drainage lines can cause
serious issues to the daily routing of the city. Problem such
as blockage due to waste material, sudden increase in the
water level as well as various harmful gases can be produce
if the proper cleaning actions are not taken time to time.
Today’s Drainage system is not computerized due to which
it is hard to identify if blockage has occurred in particular
location.
Also sometimes due to the waste in those drainage lines
can produce various gases like methane(CH4), carbon
monoxide(CO), etc which are harmful and can cause
serious problem if inhaled by humans in large amount
and these faced by the drainage workers which leads to
loss of life. Also we don’t get early alert of the blockage of
rise in amount of those gases or the increases in the water
level.
Hence detection and repairing of the blockage becomes
time consuming and hectic. There are realtime examples
through which we can do analysis of lack of drainage
system.
In 2019 in Bangalore roads, drains and even houses in
some areas were flooded, causing tremendous
inconvenience to moment unprecedented growth of The
unprecedented growth of Bangalore unaccompanied by
the necessary infrastructure has participated problem of a
large magnitude. The city drainage system comprises
major drains, roads sides drains and shoulder drains all of
which get overloaded during the rainy season. In order to
avoid such problems smart solution are required. Smart
city infrastructure could be in terms of intelligent traffic
automation, military, conveying logistic, environmental
and surrounding monitoring. So in order to promote smart
city infrastructure in this paper we are proposing smart
underground drainage blockage monitoring and detection
system using various sensors. The sensors that used are
ultrasonic sensors and gas sensors.
1.1 Necessity of Smart Drainage System
Urban floods are entirely manmade with poorly
maintained drains, plastic bags, shrinking open spaces and
climate change contributing to accumulation of water on
roads after a heavy downpour.
In 2017 in Bellundur Lake(Bangalore) was back with dirt,
foul-smelling froth due to heavy rainfall and lack of proper
drainage system. Due to Bellandur lake tragedy 76
polluting Industries were shut.
Heavy rainfall in Delhi had flooded roads and caused huge
traffic snarls.
Chennai has witnessed severe flooding in 2015 while
floods in Mumbai had killed 500 people.
This tragedies are result of lack of drainage system
indulged with advanced technology. Manual monitoring is
time consuming and also risky for human life.

In 2019 in Agra a probe was ordered into construction of
drainage and it was suppose to be constructed in 50 meter
radius. However the old drainage has been been damaged
upto 200 meter. This was done to benefit a certain private
contractor and assign him additional work under smart
city project.
After this scam was out, strict action were meant to be
taken. There are many unknown scams that are hidden
and the benefit is taken by corrupt people and problems
are faced by the citizens.
So this gave us motivation to design a smart drainage
system which will be monitored remotely and will be risk
free as well.
1.2 Overview of Internet of Things
(IOT) is a sprawling set of technologies and use cases that
has no clear, single definition. One workable view frames
IOT as the use of network-connected devices, embedded in
the physical environment, to improve some existing
process or to enable a new scenario not previously
possible. These devices, or things, connect to the network
to provide information they gather from the environment
through sensors, or to allow other systems to reach out
and act on the world through actuators. They could be
connected versions of common objects that might already
be familiar with, or new and purpose-built devices for
functions not yet realized. They could be devices that you
own personally and carry with you or keep in your home,
or they could be embedded in factory equipment, or part
of the fabric of the city you live in. Each of them is able to
convert valuable information from the real world into
digital data that provides increased visibility into how
your users interact with your products, services, or
applications .
2. LITERATURE SURVEY
Muragesh S. K1 and SanthoshaRao [1] proposed a model
that provides a system for monitoring the water level and
atmospheric temperature and pressure inside a manhole
and to check whether a manhole lid is open. It also
monitors underground installed electric power lines. The
vital considerations of this design are low cost, low
maintenance, fast deployment, and a high number of
sensors, long life-time and high quality of service.
The Internet of Things (IoT) consists of real life objects,
communication devices attached to sensor networks in
order to provide communication and automated actions
between real world and information world. IoT came into
existence because, without human interaction, computers
were able to access data from objects and devices, but it
was aimed at, to overcome the limiting factors of human
entered data, and to achieve cost, accuracy and generality
factors. Sensor Network is a key enabler for IoT
paradigm. It represents the implementation and design
function of an Underground Drainage and Manhole
Monitoring System (UDMS) for IoT applications.
Prof.S A.Shaikh 1, Suvarna A. Sonawane [2] proposed the
system for the Smart cities for the development goal to
monitor the quality of resource in the city to improve good
management and faster development of the city required
necessity is to upgrade healthy and safe cities that
delivering real time services and latest facility to
implement the concept of smart city use IoT concept by
which easy wireless communication is possible. Different
type of data is collected from the sensors and transferred
to Raspberry Pi3 Controller in the system. The acquired
output from the controller is sent to the control room
through the E-mail and also display on the personal
computer.
Yash Narale, Apurva Jogal, Himani Chaudhari, S.P Bhosale
[3] introduced the underground drainage monitoring
system that will not only help in maintaining the proper
health and safety of the city but additionally in reducing
the work of government personnel numerous varieties of
sensors (flow, level, temperature and gas sensors) are
interfaced with microcontroller ARM7 so as to form the
system smart. Once the various sensors reach the
threshold level, the indication of that respective worth and
sensor is being sent to the microcontroller. Further more,
ARM7 then sends the signal and location of the manhole
to the municipal corporation through GSM and GPS and
the officials could easily locate which manhole is
having the problem and could take appropriate step.
G. Gowthaman, K. Hari Haran proposed [4] system to
simply monitoring the level, it generates alarm signals
via complaints to the required departments through
mail and SMS regarding prior to overflow.
MS T.Deepiga [5] introduced the Smart water monitoring
system using wireless sensor network. The system
consists of a sensible sensing unit that detects and
controls the home electrical appliances used for daily
activities by following totally different tariff rates.
Retno Tri Wahyuni1, et.al [6] proposed sensible devices
once integrated into the city's infrastructure through the
effective preparation of ICT, will build life during a every
town lots easier. During this paper, we tend to style
sensible period drain monitoring system mistreatment
varied sensors like water level, blockage and gas detector.
Wirawam,et.a [7] introduced predictive flood detection
system mistreatment IoT are enforced in stream like
Central American nation and different rivers.
Gunasekaran, M.pavitra, S.Priyanka, R,Reeva [8] proposed
a system that has underground aquifers and above-ground
rivers, lakes, streams, marshes, comprising solely 65% of
the water present on the world. The previous water that’s

here should regularly cleanse and renew itself. Water
movement is one of the associate indicator of purity and
energy.
3. WHY IS NEED OF SMART DRAINAGE SYSTEM
Urban areas are most affected by floods which are man
made such as shrinking open spaces, use of non recycled
plastic, drains which are not monitored regularly that
leads to heavy water accumulation after heavy rainfall.
In 2017 in Bellundur Lake (Bangalore) was with dirt, foul-
smelling froth due to heavy rainfall and lack of proper
drainage system. Due to Bellandur lake tragedy 76
polluting Industries were shut.
Delhi was flooded with water after a continuous heavy
rainfall which caused traffic congestion.
Chennai has witnessed severe flooding in 2015 while
floods in Mumbai had killed 500 people.
This tragedies are result of lack of drainage system
indulged with advanced technology. Manual monitoring is
time consuming and also risky for human life.
In 2019 in Agra a probe was ordered into construction of
drainage and it was suppose to be constructed in 50 meter
radius. However the old drainage has been been damaged
up to 0.2 km. This was done for certain people who were
involved in order to get benefit under smart city project.
After this scam was out, strict action were meant to be
taken. There are many unknown scams that are hidden
and the benefit is taken by corrupt people and problems
are faced by the civilians.
So this gave us motivation to design a smart drainage
system which will be monitored remotely and will be risk
free as well.
4. OVERVIEW OF TOT
Internet of Things (IoT) is one among the rising set of
technologies that has no clear single definition. One
feasible read frames Iot use as of network connected
devices, embedded within the physical setting, to boost
some existing method or to change a brand new situation
not antecedently doable. These devices or things to the
network to produce info they gather from setting through
sensors, or permit different system to succeed in out and
act on the globe through actuators. They may be
connected versions of common objects which may already
be aware of, or new purpose-made devices for operate not
however completed.
They could be devices that you just own in person and
carry with you or detain home, or they may be embedded
in works instrumentation, or a part of the material of the
town every of them is in a position to convert valuable info
from the real world to digital information.
Internet of Things(IoT) may be a network of physical
devices that area unit able to hook up with a network and
exchange information.
4.1 SENSORS
Sensors can monitor the flow level, blockage in voidance
likewise as quantity of dangerous gases in period scenario
based mostly upon the info values given by the sensors in
system the data along side location ID send to the
gateway and send to the cloud (server) or concerned
authority.
1) Arduino: Arduino is an one of the best open electronics
platform to use hardware and software.
Arduino (Fig 1) boards are able to read inputs – light on a
sensor, a finger on a button, or a twitter message –and
turn it into an output - activating a motor, turning on LED,
publishing something online.
Fig 1 Arduino UNO
2) Ultrasonic: Ultrasonic sensor(Fig 2) has high
frequency, sensitivity, and power create simple to detect
the object. They have greater accuracy than different ways
at measuring thickness and depth of a parallel surface.
The Transmitter and Receiver will play an important role
(Fig 3). Ultrasonic are easy to use and not dangerous
during operation.
Fig 2 Ultrasonic Sensor

Fig 3 Working principle of Transmitter and Receiver
3) Gas Sensor: Gas Sensor(Fig 4) detects the presence of
harmful gases which might be present at fuel station,
industries etc. This unit can be easily incorporated into an
alarm circuit/unit, to sound an alarm or provide a visual
indication of the H2S concentration. The sensor has
excellent sensitivity combined with quick response.
It is flexible and reliable that combine technology. The
drainage channel are covered with manholes to operate
and to clear the blocking present inside the channel.
Fig 4 Gas Sensor
5. PROPOSED SYSTEM
The Underground Drainage System are maintained by
Cleaning offices in India to make clean healthy
surroundings and hence environment.
But often due to poor maintenance of the underground
drainage system, the water in the drainage system gets
mixed up with the pure water and consumption of this
polluted water leads to water borne diseases.
The sudden changes in the atmosphere and variations in
the climate during different seasons the drainage gets
blocked or water logged, making environment unhealthy
and disturbs the healthy routine of common people.
To overcome all these issues in the underground drainage
system we have designed the smart drainage system that
will have:
1. Sensors to detect blockage, flood and gases.
2. The intelligence of sensors and system can clogging the
impeding within the system and will offer the details of
the location and different data for further actions.
3. System will also sense hazardous gases like methane
(CH4), Sulphur Di-oxide(SO2) carbon monoxide (CO) etc.
As the level of such gases pass value worth thee system
will generate the alert using alarm system by which the
Health department can take correct action on it.
4. These entire data packet will be jointly sent by the
gateway node and stored at the cloud all the system,
we are able to simply monitor, modify and rectify the
issues in real time.
From the block diagram (Fig 5) we can observe the
working methodology of Smart Drainage System.
Fig 5 Block Diagram
6. RESOURCES
HARDWARE
System Windows 7 and Upgrade
version/Linux
RAM 4 GB
Hard Disk 500 GB
CPU Speed 2 GHz

SOFTWARE
Operating System Windows/Linux/CenterOS.
Programming Language Java
Front End HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
IDE Eclipse
7. PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Phases Time
Analysis 20 H
Design 30H
Coding 20H
Testing 30H
Documentation 20H
Maintenance 40H
Total Time 160H
CONCLUSION
Thus our project aims to create a safe and healthy
environment by creating a smart drainage monitoring
system. This paper addresses all about smart and real-
time drainage monitoring and detecting system through
IoT applications for metropolitan cities. By using various
sensors such as gas detection, ultrasonic blockage
detection we can monitor the real-time scenario of the
drainage system by detecting the problems in the drainage
system. By doing this we can able to take a particular
action on the problems as we will receive the early alerts
of blockage as well as increase. This paper can be used to
design the smart and real-time drainage blockage
Monitoring detection System as well as troubleshooting
the problem.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We would like to express our gratitude to the people for
their support and guidance for the success of this paper
and we would also express our deep sense of gratitude to
thank Prof. Ankita Karale (Department of Computer
Engineering).
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