Water:

Sensors and Web Services for Water Management

Autonomous in-situ sensors in networks & on mobile platforms

For Monitoring
groundwater, surface water, waste water

Integrated in Water Management tool
     - Sensor networks & mobile platforms
     - Data infrastructure & processing
    - Web application for users

Advances
     - High resolution data in space & time
      multiple parameters
     - Data ->information (‘smart software’)

Terrestrial sensor networks

Application example
     - Monitoring subsurface flow, surface runoff and
       meteorological conditions
     - Pathways for pollutant transport from land to river

Sensors
     - Runoff tipping buckets
     - TDR probes
     - Tensiometers
     - Drop counting fibreglass wick samplers
     - Meteorological station

Sensor network infrastructure
     - Fully automated
     - Data logging
     - Wireless communication

Implementation of terrestrial sensors and meteo station

Mobile sensor platforms for surface water quality

Floating carrier with sensor

Unmanned surface vehicle

Sensor parameters e.g.
     - Ammonium
     - Chlorophyll
     - Conductivity
     - Dissolved oxygen
     - Nitrate
     - Phosphate
     - pH
     - Redox
     - Turbidity

Autonomous in-situ
water quality sensors

Sensor validation
measurements in lab

Data processing & Web applications

Interface between sensors, geospatial databases & end users:
     - Generic web based approach
     - OGC standards
     - INSPIRE guidelines

ICT & data infrastructure
     - Sensor communication
     - Data transfer & storage
     - Processing: screening, alert, modelling
     - Web application: data, information, visualization

Application fields
     - Environmental monitoring
     - Early warning, disaster management
     - Precision agriculture
     - Extreme events, climate change

General architecture of an integrated monitoring system
including sensors, ICT and spatial data infrastructure

Implementation and integration
of different technologies to meet user requirements

Web application for surface water quality sensors

Web application for terrestrial sensor network

For more information contact: Wesley Boënne or call +32 14 33 67 89

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