The Intelligent Water Project: Bringing Understanding to Water Pumps in Africa

Daniel Scott Weaver, Brian Nejmeh, David Vader, Tony Beers

2016

Abstract

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Weaver D., Nejmeh B., Vader D. and Beers T. (2016). The Intelligent Water Project: Bringing Understanding to Water Pumps in Africa . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-188-5, pages 211-218. DOI: 10.5220/0005770002110218

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam16,
author={Daniel Scott Weaver and Brian Nejmeh and David Vader and Tony Beers},
title={The Intelligent Water Project: Bringing Understanding to Water Pumps in Africa},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2016},
pages={211-218},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005770002110218},
isbn={978-989-758-188-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - The Intelligent Water Project: Bringing Understanding to Water Pumps in Africa
SN - 978-989-758-188-5
AU - Weaver D.
AU - Nejmeh B.
AU - Vader D.
AU - Beers T.
PY - 2016
SP - 211
EP - 218
DO - 10.5220/0005770002110218