Fluids level monitoring using Zigbee

Abstract

Abstract Measurement is a critical element in the instrumentation and control systems in the industry, especially in the process industry. The analysis can be made in various ways and methods, one who is designing a monitoring system. The design of this monitoring system can be realized as a simulation through similar visualization with industrial monitoring systems. This paper has developed and applied fluids level monitoring systems based on Zigbee to transmit and receive data wirelessly. The system design is divided into two parts. The first one is plant design and Human Machine Interface (HMI), the system that is applied in designing measurement systems fluid level. The design and application of HMI systems use Visual Basic as the user interface with the plant. In this plant, ATmega16 is being used for the system controller and MPX2010DP sensor, which was chosen to measuring the level of fluids. This sensor is selected because this sensor uses the principle of differential pressure making it easier to use. Sending and receiving data from the PC to the plant runs very well using Local Area Network (LAN). The maximum range is 30m for indoors and 90m for outdoors.