However if you have an older power meter without a pulse output then you might be able to use one of the options below to sense your water consumption.
Arduino water meter pulse.
It emits an infrared light and detects the reflection.
Use the tcrt5000 ir barrier line track sensor.
Upload the flow meter code to your arduino.
Water flow sensor for flow rate volume measurement using arduino code along with.
Calculating power 3600 seconds per hour 3600j per pulse ie.
The code uses an external interrupt on the arduino s digital pin 2.
Upload the water flow meter code to the arduino.
Water flow meter which i used in the project is from aliexpress.
This is used to read the pulses coming from the flow meter.
I bought it in 6 dollars.
When the arduino detects the pulse it immediately triggers the pulsecounter function.
The code uses an external interrupt on the arduino s digital pin 2.
In some cases newer water meters are equipped with a pulse output.
For the a100c meter each pulse represents a 1000th of a kwhr of 1whr of energy passing through the meter.
Flow sensor is powered with an external 9 volt battery.
Uploading the flow meter code to the arduino and measuring water flow rate.
Uploading code to arduino and measuring.
Digital pin 3 of arduino is configured as interrupt pin.
Reading pulses from meters with pulse outputs.
In this project we will interface yfs201 hall effect water flow sensor with arduino for measuring flow rate and volume of water or any other liquid this is a very wonderful project that can be used in industry or at home or at water flow measurement application in water tap tunnel river etc.
I will explain about it during code explanation.
This is used to read the pulses coming from the flow meter.
In the above circuit i attached the pulse output pin of flow sensor to arduino digital pin 3.