Remote Water Quality Warning System Using Water Fleas

  • Park Se-Hyun (Department of Electronic Engineering, Andong National University) ;
  • Kim Eung-Soo (Department of IT Eletronic Engineering, Daejeon University) ;
  • Park Se-Hoon (Electronic & Information Engineering, Andong National University)
  • 발행 : 2006.06.01

초록

Hardware for monitoring the water quality using water fleas is developed. Water flea is a frequently used biological sensor for monitoring the water quality. Water fleas quickly respond to the incoming toxic water by changing their activity when they are exposed. By measuring the activity of water fleas, the incoming toxic water is instantly detected. So far the measurement of activity of water fleas has been done with a system equipped with both a light source of LED and a light detector of photo transistor. Water flea itself is, however, sensitive to light resulting in incorrect response and the system has two inconvenient separate parts of the light source and the detector. This paper suggests a system using a CCD camera instead of a light source and a detector. The suggested system processes the image data from the CCD camera in real time without any delay. The developed system becomes a part of the remote water monitoring embedded system.

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