On the design of a Water Quality Wireless Sensor Network (WQWSN): an Application to Water Quality Monitoring in Malawi

Zennaro, M and Dogan, G and Cao, Z and Bahader, M and Ntareme, H and Bagula, A (2009) On the design of a Water Quality Wireless Sensor Network (WQWSN): an Application to Water Quality Monitoring in Malawi, Proceedings of IEEE NGWMN 2009, September 2009, Vienna, Austria, IEEE NGWMN, IEEE.

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Abstract

More than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water in the world. Providing a way to measure automatically water quality will help tackle this problem. This paper presents the design of a water quality measuring system and proposes a prototype implementation of a water quality wireless sensor network (WQWSN) as a solution to this challenging problem. When applied to developing countries, the design and implementation of such a system must take into consideration the difficult environment in which it will operate. An application to water quality measurement in Malawi reveals the relevance of using our novel solution to mitigate two challenging issues: energy consumption of the system and the inter-networking problem.

Item Type: Conference paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Intelligent sensors; water quality; wireless sensor network; Malawi
Subjects: Computer systems organization > Architectures > Distributed architectures
Date Deposited: 30 Nov 2009
Last Modified: 10 Oct 2019 15:34
URI: http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/553

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