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A Low Cost Turbidity Sensor Development

Authors:
Sandra Sendra
Lorena Parra
Vicente Ortuño
Jaime Lloret

Keywords: Turbidity; turbidity optical sensors; low cost sensor.

Abstract:
Water turbidity measurement is important for underwater environmental monitoring. Large changes in this parameter can affect fishes catching the food. This avoids having fishes feed properly and most pellets are wasted and deposited in the seabed. In some cases, it is more important to know the variation of the turbidity in real time than a very accurate value. For this reason, we may not need very high precision in our sensor. In this paper, we show the development of a low cost turbidity sensor. Our sensor is able to take measurements in real-time and presents long useful lifetime. Consequently, it will need low maintenance. To test our system, we are going to create a set of samples with different concentrations in sea water. We will calibrate our system and we will estimate the analytical model that follows the behavior of our low cost turbidity sensor.

Pages: 260 to 265

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: August 25, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-296-7

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from August 25, 2013 to August 31, 2013