Rivers reflect the health of the surrounding land as they are a collection point of waters flowing from all around. Quality monitoring for surface waters including rivers currently involves methods which are characterized as:
We propose a shift in water monitoring approach from traditional and very limited (in terms of time and space) field measurements to novel Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) systems which are gaining the momentum not just among researchers, but also in the market. These recent advanced technologies compared with the present water quality methods would readily provide us with advantages such as smaller, cost effective, and low power consumption sensors. They would in turn enable convenient monitoring arrangements, like continuous, real-time, and broad in coverage measurements, remote monitoring, identification of long-term trends and fluctuations of parameters of interest, etc. Further, such systems may be of particular importance, say, in identifying sources of pollution.
The InWaterSense overall objective is to apply recent advanced practices stemming from ICT in water quality monitoring for healthy environment, and strengthen Kosovo's capacity in research in national priority sectors of environment and ICT.
The specific objectives of the project to serve the overall objectives mentioned above are following:
Specific objective 1: Build a WSN infrastructure in the river Sitnica for monitoring water quality with the aim of providing a best practice scenario for expanding it to other surface water resources as well in the country. read more
Specific objective 2: Monitor water quality in the river Sitnica supported by the WSN in order to make the quality data available to the community and the decision makers for determining the current health of the river. read more
Specific objective 3: Transform the existing WSN for WQM into an intelligent platform to operate almost autonomously, and support more functionality as envisioned by the future Internet and intelligent systems. The intelligent behavior of the system is aimed to present a novelty in research in the field. read more
University of Prishtina, Kosova
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hydro-Technical Department
University of Prishtina, Kosova
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering Department
Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Wireless Sensor Networks
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Water Quality Management
Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
Networked Embedded Systems
Linnaeus University, Sweden
Computer Science
Hydro-Metheorologic Institute of Kosova, Kosova