Level control is one of the most important tasks for the process control engineer.
As this prevents wastage of water, saves man power and electricity. So, water level monitoring is utmost important. Many times in household, apartments and offices water is wasted unknowingly. Water is one of the important natural resource. Measurements carried out in laboratory show that the accuracy of some millimeters could be achieved.
In order to illustrate flexibility of the designed system the front panel of the developed virtual instrument is presented. A prototype of a liquid level monitoring system based on float sensors, electromagnetic valve, Matlab and LabVIEW environment is developed for measuring liquid level accurately and accordingly maintaining the level of liquid close to the reference level. Using this approach the cheaper and more versatile measurement system can be developed. With virtual measurement technology, more of the instrument can be substituted by software. It made the product expensive, with low functionality and with limited precision. Most of the traditional measuring systems were designed and implemented by complicated hardware circuitry. The purpose of study paper is to demonstrate an innovative approach for low cost continuous liquid level monitoring based on virtual instrumentation.
