Some countries like Botswana and South Africa have faced major water
shortages in the past. Water charges have also increased over the years. Usually in homes and business premises, there are some taps, that have high water usage such as garden taps. For such taps, to control and monitor the water usage can help control high bills as well as water wastage. In this work, an Internet of Things (IoT) based device is developed that is connected to the tap to monitor water usage. The device needed to be easy to install onto a tap, compact, have the key components protected from the weather and have an internet connection through a Wi-Fi network to be able to send data to the server so the user can access it through a phone. The user should also be able to access for water usage for previous days or weeks. The developed device uses the NodeMCU ESP8266 board, having Wi-Fi capabilities and a flow rate sensor is used which attaches to the tap mouth. The power source of the device is a battery. The IoT platform used was Thingspeak, which is an online platform where data is send to or from
the device through the internet. The way the device functions is that after it is
installed onto a tap the sensor is then able to access the data through their phone. During the testing stages of this project, the device functioned as expected and the users were able to view the summaries of water they were using, and they could start saving where possible

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