PROJECT SUMMARY
AMU Project code |
EXT/vliruos/TH01/AWTI/WRRC/01/2014 |
Project status |
Ongoing |
Acronym |
IoT-WATER |
Project phase |
I |
Partner(s)/ country(ies) |
VLIR-UOS (Belgium), |
AMU coordinating office(s) |
AWTi, Water Resources Research Center |
Project type |
multi-type |
Project location |
Ethiopia, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region |
Target communities |
Ministry of Water and Energy, National Mereological Institute, Rift Valley Lakes Basin Development Office |
Project description |
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Project coordinator |
Mekuanent Muluneh |
Project manager |
Dr. Abdella Kemal |
Principal investigator |
Mekuanent Muluneh |
Total project budget (€) |
89,891 |
Project start |
01-Jan-20 |
Project end |
31-Aug-22 |
Contact person (e-mail) |
Mekuanent Muluneh (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) |
Project Management Office
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Office of the Director for Grant and Collaborative Project Management: Dr. Thomas Torora (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) |
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is an approach to develop efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water problems. It needs a combination of various disciplines and the active involvement of all stakeholders. Many water resources engineers in the Global South are now trained in using hydrological models to assess how ongoing trends or new policy measures will affect water resources in the longer term. They often lack weather and hydrological data to apply these models for IWRM. Novel Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and sensors now create an opportunity to collect such data at an affordable cost, even though citizen-science projects. The proposed project aims to provide training in the use of IoT technologies for monitoring water resources and to set up a network of water resources specialists who develop and share software (sensor monitoring scripts, smartphone apps), hardware information (sensors, IoT devices, building instructions), IoT network and cloud infrastructure, and best practices on how to involve stakeholders in water monitoring and IWRM.