Design of an open-source software system for water temperature monitoring

This article presents the software and hardware components of an open-source system designed for water temperature monitoring. The system can handle measurements from up to eight sensors at user-defined time intervals. It was designed with the waterproof temperature sensor model DS18B20, an Arduino...

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Published inComputational ecology and software Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 78 - 98
Main Author Joao E M Perea Martins
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hong Kong International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IAEES) 01.09.2025
International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Subjects
Agriculture
Aquatic life
arduino
Climate change
data acquisition
Data acquisition systems
Design
ds18b20
Ecology
Energy consumption
Hardware
Mathematical models
measurements
Monitoring
Open source software
Public domain
Real time
Sensors
Software
Source code
Temperature sensors
Water quality
Water temperature
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Summary:This article presents the software and hardware components of an open-source system designed for water temperature monitoring. The system can handle measurements from up to eight sensors at user-defined time intervals. It was designed with the waterproof temperature sensor model DS18B20, an Arduino board and a computer. The Arduino-based program reads the sensors data and transmits the temperature values to the computer in real-time via a serial communication. The computer software has an intuitive user interface to ensure an easy operation, and it displays the temperatures numerically, generates graphs, and allows the user to save the data to a disk at any time. Besides the Arduino and the sensors, the hardware setup requires only a single additional resistor making assembly straightforward. This article details the Arduino and the computer source code programs, and the satisfactory system results have motivated the work presentation.
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ISSN:2220-721X