Online Water Quality Monitoring
The project will develop and implement a self-sustained, low-cost
online water quality monitoring system, to spread awareness of the
results and to make a feasibility study on how to empower and stimulate
local entrepreneurs to establish businesses based on the system. The
system will be based on wireless sensor network technology.
Summary of project objectives:
1. Develop a water quality monitoring system
2. Deploy and demonstrate it at selected sites in Malawi and Tanzania.
3. Spread awareness of the results by workshops and courses
4. Make a feasibility study on how to empower and stimulate local entrepreneurs to establish businesses based on the system
Partners:
The Royal Institute of Technology
Malawi Polytechnic
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology
Contact person:
Iskra Popova
Field of work:
Environmental research and management
Funding:
SEK 750.000
Project Duration:
September, 2007 - December, 2009
