Description
Millions of communities in developing countries rely on hand pumps installed by various non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Studies have shown that these pumps are often broken with significant delays before maintenance people arrive. During the last few years, the Intelligent Water Project (IWP), in cooperation with World Vision and AlignedWorks has successfully produced sensor units, installed on each water pump to provide state of operation information, which proves the feasibility of remote monitoring through a real-time web-based database. Currently, we are working to demonstrate reliability, improve accuracy, and prepare for production on a larger scale to expand the impact to more communities all over Africa. Recently we have been moving toward this goal by producing all necessary documentation to manufacture our system and prove its functionality with quality control procedures. This involves creating drawings of each component and assembly and using these along with complete manufacturing, quality control check, and installation instructions.
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
undergraduate research, collaboratory, college, university, innovation, global, improvement, messiah college, messiah university
Disciplines
Agricultural and Resource Economics | Development Studies | Engineering | Nonprofit Administration and Management | Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Brubaker, Cory D.; Issis, Amada H.; Freed, Evan; Labrie, Daniel J.; and McCarthy, Josiah J., "Remote Hand Pump Monitoring in Africa" (2020). 2020 Collaboratory/Engineering Symposium. 13.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2020/13
Included in
Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Development Studies Commons, Engineering Commons, Nonprofit Administration and Management Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
