Live monitoring of rural drinking water schemes using mobile phone infrastructure
Marius A. Koestler
2134/28849
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Live_monitoring_of_rural_drinking_water_schemes_using_mobile_phone_infrastructure/9585383
Post-installation
monitoring of rural drinking water projects is costly and time consuming, but at the
same time a necessity to ensure a project’s sustainability. Limited financial and human resources restrain
the level at which facilitators can follow up on their projects, leaving them with little up to date
information. The recent mobile phone revolution in Africa has drastically improved the qualitative
information flow between remote project sites and facilitators. The solution presented here uses the same
technology to improve the quantitative information flow. A specially developed solar powered unit, with a
built in GSMmodem,
collects daily data about sales, expenditures and production from the water
committee which is operating the system. The data is instantly transmitted and presented to the facilitator
by a web interface and any unexpected variations will alert the facilitator, allowing for a swift reaction.
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