Sensor platform for assessment of water usage patterns in informal settlements.

ABSTRACT: Rapid urbanization has intensified pressures on global water systems, particularly impacting informal settlements. Understanding water usage patterns within these settlements is of importance for better addressing water scarcity issues. Current methods for gaining information about water within these settings tend to lack spatio-temporal granularity and miss complex patterns of behavior related to water usage. As a consequence, there is a shortage of the reliable quantitative measurements needed to improve water management processes and modeling. Here we introduce a low-cost sensing platform for water assessment in informal settlements. Households within these types of settlements, lacking water utility connections and piping, often use storage tanks and buckets to distribute, store, and c

SUBMITTER: Rico A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622545 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature