Some Studies on Automatic Dam Water Level Monitor and River/Canal Gate Opening Control System

The prime objectives of dam erection are for various common people's benefits, such as flood water control, water supply for drinking & other uses, irrigation & agricultural use for cultivated land, river bed sedimentation control, cheapest hydropower generation, navigation, etc.The basic need of a dam is to maintain an adequate water level for optimal & efficient management of water resources for a particular river in a particular geographic location, considering seasonal variation of weather parameters.A digital distributed control scheme is proposed for dam gate control in place of conventional & existing manual control schemes for better management of rivers & canals.This paper presents a novel scheme to employ a Gateway commensurate with remote control via industrial-grade hardware from the local control centre through IEC60870-5-101/104 protocol, fetching data from a statistical environment.The water distribution management is controlled & monitored by sensing signals with transducers, processing them and sending actuating signals towards control valves for water flow control according to system requirements.