Water Management for Rural Environments and IoT

Water Management Iot Applications

IoT applications for water management in rural environments address two questions: irrigation water quality management and water resources management.

In Portugal, information about the water quality and water resources is presented online at the (http://snirh.pt/) Internet site. This data is collected using traditional chemical and physical analysis from samples collected in the field. Unfortunately, due to cost issues, the data at many sites is not collected anymore. IoT systems are typically low cost and could present an alternative for the problem of updating old networks of water quality monitoring systems.

During the last few years some proposals for IoT based water quality monitoring systems have appeared in scientific literature. A short review follows.