Product Design
Lorcan Beggan Sally Bentley Cáit Boyce Willis Jimmy Brennan Darragh Carthy Jason Clarke Triona Delany Daniel English Frank Flanagan Aivaras G Elliot Halpenny Donal Healy Shane Martin Barry McAllister Cáit McCarthy Faye McCarthy Joseph McTiernan Kate Mooney Ross Murray Darragh Nolan James O'Brien Ruairi O’Farrell Sophia O'Neill Roisin O'Regan Darragh O’Reilly Claire Pentony Colm Saunders Cathal Seoighe Serghei Sevciuc Ryan Sinnott Alan Thomas Niall Walsh Colm Whelan Dylan Whitren ByrneDylan Whitren Byrne
Umeter
The purpose of my project is to help protect our natural waterways. Sadly, Irish river systems have fallen into a state of neglect and our fish stocks, wildlife and tourism have suffered as a result of poor water quality. At the centre of this issue is the inflow of pollutants from lands surrounding these rivers.
Nitrate is an element that all plant life needs to grow and is the prime ingredient in all fertilizers used on agricultural land to increase crops sizes and for grass to feed cattle. Unfortunately, not all this nitrate gets to be used by what is growing on the land and what isn’t used leaches into nearby rivers and accelerates the growth of weeds causing a host of issues such as spawning beds being destroyed eliminating the potential for wild fish to reproduce.
With the UMETER, I aim to produce a cost-effective sensor network to monitor nitrates entering rivers in real time to help prevent further pollution and allow these ecosystems to bounce back. UMETER will create a system that monitors a river’s water quality and sends data collected to the cloud, where it can be stored and analysed for trends and events. The idea is to install a series of sensors at regular intervals along the rivers course that will continuously monitor nitrate concentrations.
The design is a small unit that uses a method of spectroscopy to sample nitrate concentrations at that point in the river. Spikes of nitrate detected along this chain will identify sources of nitrate entering the river from agricultural runoff and other sources with the aim being to allow authorities such as the EPA and county council to work on these areas preventing further entrance of nitrate into the river.
The purpose of my project is to help protect our natural waterways. Sadly, Irish river systems have fallen into a state of neglect and our fish stocks, wildlife and tourism have suffered as a result of poor water quality. At the centre of this issue is the inflow of pollutants from lands surrounding these rivers.
Nitrate is an element that all plant life needs to grow and is the prime ingredient in all fertilizers used on agricultural land to increase crops sizes and for grass to feed cattle. Unfortunately, not all this nitrate gets to be used by what is growing on the land and what isn’t used leaches into nearby rivers and accelerates the growth of weeds causing a host of issues such as spawning beds being destroyed eliminating the potential for wild fish to reproduce.
With the UMETER, I aim to produce a cost-effective sensor network to monitor nitrates entering rivers in real time to help prevent further pollution and allow these ecosystems to bounce back. UMETER will create a system that monitors a river’s water quality and sends data collected to the cloud, where it can be stored and analysed for trends and events. The idea is to install a series of sensors at regular intervals along the rivers course that will continuously monitor nitrate concentrations.
The design is a small unit that uses a method of spectroscopy to sample nitrate concentrations at that point in the river. Spikes of nitrate detected along this chain will identify sources of nitrate entering the river from agricultural runoff and other sources with the aim being to allow authorities such as the EPA and county council to work on these areas preventing further entrance of nitrate into the river.
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