• Arif Ahmad Malla
• Saqlain Mirza

Water and energy are essential elements of humanity’s life and civilization and hydro power relates to both,it contributes to harnessing water flow in hydrological or river system thus alleviating floods and droughts and it allows sustainable and clean power production and distribution which is easily adoptable to changing demands.It has ecological effect to be considered as well.One of the most important issue in hydro power industry is to determine the necessary degree of automation in order to improve the operation security. Depending upon the complexity of the system (the power plant equipment) the automation specialist will build a philosophy of control following some general principals of security and operation. Helped by the modern digital equipment, today is relative easy to design a complete monitoring and supervising system including all the subparts of a hydro aggregate. A series of sensors and transducers specific for each auxiliary installation of the turbine and generator will be provided, together with a PLC or an industrial PC that will run an application software for implementing the security and control algorithms. The purpose of this project is to offer a general view of these issues, providing a view of designing an automation & control for hydro power plants of small, medium and big power.An automatic computer based system can be useful to control the automatic starting, stopping, safe operation and protection the generating equipment. Computer based automation system have the ability to operate the hydro generating unit in a more efficient, accurate, safe and consistent manner. The project is aimed to describe the various computer based control techniques and monitoring which can be able to enhance efficiency of the system at reduced costs.

MATLAB, Ardiuno, hydroelectric power generation, tachometer.

"Matlab And Ardiuno Based Hydro Electric Dam Control with Overflow Gate and Water Level Control with Turbine Status.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.74-79, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I40.pdf

"Matlab And Ardiuno Based Hydro Electric Dam Control with Overflow Gate and Water Level Control with Turbine Status.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp74-79, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906I40.pdf