Implementation of Sluice Valve management systems using GPS and AR

In case of massive water leakage, it’s crucial for field manager to quickly positioning the problematic valve and related ones. However, it’s not easy for the system to find the corresponding valve and even if it’s found, it can not respond quickly because it can’t know the relevant information immediately. In this paper, we implement the system for identifying sluice valve positions using GPS and AR techniques. The proposed system is composed of hand held android device, remote database server and data acquisition device for DB creation. We utilize the android device’s sensors including GPS, gyro, accelerometer, magnetic sensor. The system identifies the valve with matching between the position data from the remote database server, and current GPS locations of device. We use AR techniques to overlay the graphics pattern of valve positions and some additional informations on captured real scene. With this system, it will be fast and accurate for maintenance of sluice valve of municipal water system.