Reporting water quality
Michael Champanis, Ulrike Rivett · 2012
In this paper, we present the design of a set of mobile applications and their role in water quality management in rural and under-resourced areas in developing countries. As part of the Aquatest project, several tools were developed to allow data relating to water quality to be collected remotely using low-cost mobile devices. The so-called "Water Quality Reporter" (WQR) tool is a J2ME application that allows collection of form-based data on mobile devices. The "Water Quality Management" (WQM) tool is a web-based system that allows managers to set up automatic data point threshold warnings, delivery of periodic reports, and provides a data overview using Google Maps. The WQM mobile application is built for the Android platform and provides managers with a daily overview of data collected. We present a case study of four pilot implementations of the tools, and discuss lessons learned and future work.