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22 CONNECT Water Monitoring
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Ireland is home to a new testbed initiative called “ Pervasive Nation ”, an island-wide infrastructure dedicated to Internet of Things . The Science Foundation Ireland funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks and Communications led by Prof Linda Doyle is championing Pervasive Nation which will span urban , suburban and rural Ireland , supporting research and commercial Internet of Things activities and will be the first of its kind anywhere in the world .
www . connectcentre . ie
Prof Dermot Diamond from Dublin City University along with the Environmental Protection Agency and researchers from the Insight Centre for Data Analytics have developed in-situ sensors for measuring water quality , in particular nitrates and phosphates . These pollutants trigger the growth of algal blooms which results in oxygen depletion from the water resulting in fish kills ; ultimately the water becomes undrinkable . The team has been collaborating closely with TE Laboratories ( Tullow , Co . Carlow ) through several EU projects and a targeted project with the Science Foundation Ireland Insight Centre to develop innovative technologies that will dramatically improve the quality and performance of in-situ remote sensing of pollutants in water bodies . Prototype devices developed by the joint Insight-TE Laboratories team has been selected for the final stage in a global competition organised by the US-based Alliance for Coastal Technologies to assess the best approaches to delivering robust solutions for in-situ sensing of nutrient levels .
www . insight-centre . org