Wireless Sensor Network application for water quality monitoring in India

Polluted water became a very serious issue for civilization from last few decades. Scarce access to potable water due to acceleration in urbanization, industrialization along-with crowded population, untreated sewage disposal and industrial effluents leads to various life threatening diseases especially in case of infants and women. To control level of contamination water surveillance becomes important. Manual water quality surveillance methods in India dramatically exacerbate water quality deterioration. Considering monitoring essence, we need a continuous, real-time, in-situ monitoring system for water quality management. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) fascinated us for pro-active water quality management due to their real-time, continuous and dynamic nature, to act as early warning system so that WSN can trigger appropriate alarm in hazardous situations. Despite years of research and their extreme capabilities, application of WSN in environmental monitoring remains limited. In this paper, our aim is to discuss requirement and suitability of WSN for water quality surveillance.