Water technology is at the cusp of a major evolutionary breakthrough. Industrial Internet Of Things is a new technological application that is being used to determined water and wastewater quality by sensors which can predict the problem areas and avert failures due to lapse in the quality of water.

Internet of Things or IOT is a mainstream technology aimed at connecting devices and machines through artificial intelligence enough to control functions done by machine language. IOT is now extending its application in the turf of industrial use with a niche term: Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) is making its way to tackle the problems in water quality and wastewater quality measurement.

Number of B2B IoT connections is expected to increase to 5.4 billion by the year 2020. There has been a constant effort towards putting intelligence to the data collected and thus water and wastewater applications are an excellent way to prove IIoT applications.

In the past, potential benefit of installing and connecting the sensor-based devices was not enough to justify the cost. Now, with the IIoT, the cost and complexity of applying sensors has become better with high level of precision. The sensors are powerful enough to depict water quality to an extent that it can prevent failures and indicate problems even before they occur.

Remote monitoring systems use wireless sensors to measure and report vibration and temperature on rotating equipment. They can be clipped into rotating equipment with a nominal monthly subscription cost of less than a thousand dollars.

This advancement is confined to the industrial use but they can be used for gauging the water quality at residential set up also. Crisis such as Flint water quality crisis could have been averted through this technology to a great extent and an entire gamut of problems resulting from such disasters could be forestalled.

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