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It comprises the following components: Arduino UNO board, Bluetooth module BT04, temperature sensor DS18B20, pH sensor\u2014SEN0161, TDS sensor\u2014SEN0244, turbidity sensor\u2014SKU SEN0189. The system will be controlled and managed from a mobile application, which will monitor the actual status of water sources. We propose to monitor and evaluate the quality of water from five different water sources in a rural settlement. The results show that most of the water sources we have monitored are proper for consumption, with a single exception where the TDS values are not within proper limits, as they outperform the maximum accepted value of 500 ppm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23083919","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,13]],"date-time":"2023-04-13T02:09:21Z","timestamp":1681351761000},"page":"3919","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":60,"title":["Low-Cost Internet-of-Things Water-Quality Monitoring System for Rural Areas"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6495-3239","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Razvan","family":"Bogdan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}]},{"given":"Camelia","family":"Paliuc","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7349-8685","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mihaela","family":"Crisan-Vida","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}]},{"given":"Sergiu","family":"Nimara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Automation and Computers, Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}]},{"given":"Darius","family":"Barmayoun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Center for Engineering and Management, Politehnica University of Timi\u0219oara, 300006 Timisoara, Romania"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization (2017). 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