Automated Multiple Water Tanks Control System Using ATMEGA and FPGA Technology

Abstract

The automated multiple water tanks control system is designed and implemented for the usefulness of household, industries and manufacturing processes. Also, for the control and monitoring of water overflow or chemicals in the overhead tanks, as result of common wastage of water runoff from the overhead tanks. The system failure rate, and some relevant constraints are the challenges. It includes memory capacity, power consumption, wireless facilities and many others. The experimental design of this system was realized and demonstrated in the laboratory using ATmega microcontroller chip and FPGA technology. The proposed system experimentation was carried out to show the comparative performance of Field programmable gate array (FPGA) to its counterpart intelligent microchip (ATmega) application for industrial system manufacturing. In this research, an automated multiple water tanks control system was practically demonstrated in the laboratory to control the overflow and monitor the water level of the overhead tanks using ATmega 328 microchip, actuator (stepper motor), buzzer and others. The Xilinx 14.1 ISE was used for FPGA design, simulation and implementation on Spartan 6 FPGA development board. The experimental results from ModelSim simulator shows the system stability and efficiency which utilize total processing time of 4.99s, delay time of 6.557ns and total memory usage of 303192 kilobytes.