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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Innovation Water Technologies |
| Research Area | Water |
| Project Acronym | |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Kevin Fitzgibbon |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 51.8841222,-8.5338364 |
| Lead Funding Entity | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 30/01/2017 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 29/01/2019 |
| Project Website (if any) | |
| Links to other Web-based resources | Not Applicable |
| Project Keywords | Safe water; real-time monitoring sensors; integrated environmental monitoring system; water flow; water quality; assimilative capacity; effluent; wastewater treatment plant; |
| Project Abstract | The main aim of the project is to build on previous research work at Nimbus to develop a novel water and environmental monitoring buoy with integrated real-time monitoring sensors for water and environmental quality assessment. This integrated environmental monitoring (IEM) system will provide spatially accurate and continuous environmental real-time data, thus allowing a more virtual connection with the environment and water resources which we need to protect. This project intends to address the need for accurate real-time data gathering by developing a multi-sensing IEM buoy which can accurately measure the flow and water quality parameters, and gather real-time data records of the condition of receiving waters. The observed data will be transmitted to a cloud-based platform. Other existing data sources will provide input to the platform: historic weather records and water level data for watercourses; weather forecast; and both process parameters and effluent quality monitoring data from the WWTP. Inbuilt intelligent software and algorithms, used in combination with the proposed and existing data sources, will calculate the real-time assimilative capacity of the water, i.e. will result in the definition of effluent quality and quantity acceptable for the receiving waters. |