Last year 2020, reservoir water level in Angat Dam in Norzagaray, Bulacan has reached critical level, resulting to
deaths and distructions of establishment.
The main purpose of Dams is to help in preventing floods, irrigation human consumption and source of
electricity. However, if they are not maintained and operated correctly, dams can pose risks to those living
downstream. Also, in case of heavy rain, if water level crosses safety limit, forcing authorities to open the
gates can also result in flood like situation for nearby areas and if people residing in that area are not aware of
the situation, it can cause devastation. Most of the Dam Water Level in the Philippines are manually monitored,
(they used this thing called `deep stick, which is similar looking to a tape measure but bigger and longer, that are built
near the Angat dam, and there is a person who will check it from time to time) by implementing this innovation (it won’t
be manually monitored anymore) the process will be automated, more efficient, and less risky.
• This innovation also comes with an Alarm System which will alert the nearby areas thus giving them an
idea to when they should evacuate.
Microcontroller is a compressed micro computer manufactured to control the functions of embedded
systems in office machines, robots, home appliances, motor vehicles, and several other gadgets. In this
innovation I will use this mainly to control the system.
I have three inspirations for this innovation
first is this research paper entitled Automatic Water Level Sensor and Controller System in this paper an electronic
system is designed to control and monitor the level of water in a tank or a similar reservoir, and that is where my idea
comes in, i want to propose a system, in which water level will be monitored automatically and if flood like situation
arises, it would provide warning by means of alarm signals.
Second one is an article and a video about the dam spill of Angat Dam,I know it is a natural calamity and it is impossible
to say that it wont happen again, hence I want to help by minimizing the risk of this occurrence using this system.
1. Make sure the project will fit on the desired location (always double check the calculations of the measurements)
(next) 2. Choose the proper components for the project
3. making circuit diagram (and then we will start to make the circuit diagram) by
4. implementing circuit diagram by interfacing all the components
5. putting buzzer, ultrasonic sensor and motor driver chip on bread board (A thin plastic board used to hold electronic components
that are wired together.)
6. making wire connection between components such as connecting VCC and GND wire of ultrasonic sensor with
microcontroller, connecting ECHO and Trigger to digital pins of microcontroller. (Voltage Common Collector this is the positive
wire in our system.) gnd is the ground wire. echo is the local display of data
7. interfacing buzzer
8. connecting motor driver chip with dc motor (again by connecting VCC and GND)
9. interfacing driver chip with microcontroller
10. writing code for the whole process
11. testing and debugging the code
12. viewing the result on serial monitor
