Summary:
Early Warning Remote Sensing for Water Table Management.
By Shaimaa Ahmed
Graduate student at AUC
Ground water is a valuable resource that requires a mentoring system to alert decision makers, NGOs and researchers about any pollution or risky head drops.
The solution is a development of a sensing ball that is used to create 3d map of the underground cave. The development includes hardware, software and sensors. These developments are:
1-Adding new hardware and Software that calculate the difference in head or change in water quality parameters.
2- Fixed sensors that communicating with a moving sensor and they communicate with the surface of the ground and via satellite connection, the new data reach central servers.
3- create 3d maps on web and cell phone applications
4- part of the energy in the ball is conserved because the head calculation is based on the velocity of the ground water movements.
5- A grid of well is required to manage this real time movement.
6- Collect water samples that assist in water biological assessments.
This solution works within the national border of a single country and it assist to manage ground water resources among different countries.
Why we are working on this problem:
MENA region lacks access to clean water and ground water may be a suitable solution on the short run till researcher finds another solution for water shortage.
Some international crisis can be avoided if different countries learned how to manage and share ground water.
My solution is my contribution to the global community to find a solution for water crisis and potential political and social conflicts.
What we accomplished during the event:
There was no one interested in this subject thus I worked alone but there was expertise who assist me to develop the idea.
The contest atmosphere was very helpful thus I suggest more events within the same theme or events that focus on teaching new technologies for researchers or events that combine researchers and engineers from the world that are committed to this problem
Next steps:
I need to form a team with Hardware architect, programmers and then we have to find a funding to fund this project (incubated project )