Since half of South Carolina is under water, and the levels keep increasing each day, I decided to modify our fuel and cistern fluid level project to a flood level monitor. We start with a eTape level sensor from Milone Technologies. You could connect this to a ethernet or wifi shield, or even a gsm shield to notify you of water levels.
Their website lists up to 32″, but longer units are available.
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int sensorPin = 0; // select the analog input pin for the potentiometer
int sensorValue = 0; // variable to store the value coming from the sensor
float h; // variable for height of liquid
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
}
void loop() {
sensorValue = analogRead(sensorPin);
Serial.print(sensorValue); //actual adc value
Serial.println(” ADC”);
// Uncomment one of the lines below to match your sensor
//h = mapfloat(sensorValue, 215, 512, 8, 0) //8″
h = mapfloat(sensorValue, 170, 512, 12, 0); //12″
//h = mapfloat(sensorValue, 93, 512, 24, 0); //24″
//h = mapfloat(sensorValue, 75, 512, 32, 0); //32″
Serial.print(h, 2); // fluid height (inches)
Serial.println(” inches”);
delay(5000); //how long between measurements
}
float mapfloat(float x, float in_min, float in_max, float out_min, float out_max){
return (x – in_min) * (out_max – out_min) / (in_max – in_min) + out_min;
}
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