The Intelligent Water Project: Bringing understanding to water pumps in Africa

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2016

Abstract

Copyright © 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. The Intelligent Water Project (IWP), born out of an effort to increase handpump reliability, measures and reports the functionality of handpumps and volume of water extracted on two-hour intervals daily. Additionally, IWP will measure groundwater levels which can be used to evaluate well yields. Data from handpumps is automatically collected and transmitted to a remote database. Once in the database, the data is analyzed and distributed to stakeholders via web and mobile applications and customizable alerts. Besides monitoring water extraction, handpump performance, and borehole health, the IWP system processes data to alert stakeholders of failure or degrading conditions (imminent failure). Coupled with appropriate field management processes, this information can lead to improved handpump availability and lowered cost of ownership. The key goal is to dramatically increase the reliability of handpumps. A secondary goal is the collection of handpump data from all IWP enabled pump sources providing a rich resource of data to enabling WASH practitioners, managers, hydrologist and donors to make more informed decisions.

Comments

Weaver, D. S., Nejmeh, B., Vader, D., & Beers, T. (2016). The intelligent water project: Bringing understanding to water pumps in africa: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, 211–218. https://doi.org/10.5220/0005770002110218

This document is currently not available here.

  Contact Author

Share

COinS