Conceptual design of smart phone-based public reporting system for unordinary events occuring in streams

The rapid advancement of smartphone-based technologies in South Korea has introduced new opportunities to administrators responsible for stream water quality monitoring programs. The sensing functionalities of a smartphone can be used as a handheld monitoring and reporting system using the people-centric sensing approach. Unordinary events occuring in stream can be captured and reported by the public using their handheld devices. The instant contextual feedback capability of the smartphone-based system in the form of geolocation, time, user´s description and image data will be very useful to the public, authorities and the research communities in the area of water quality management. This paper proposes a conceptual design of smartphone-based public reporting system to inform in ad-hoc of unordinary event occurring in a stream.