EcoSen
The Problem
Worldwide, degradation of freshwater ecosystems is one of the most important causes of loss in biodiversity. When pollution reach some threshold the species in these environments begin to disappear, either because leaving the place or because they perish. But if biodiversity is affected humans be too. These environment will became losing their wide variety of ecosystem services that they bring. The landscape, carbon sequestration, usable water, endemic species, etc. are among the losing services by the pollution. Between different water pollution types that are existing wastewater is the most common and threatening in the world
Our Proposal
The use of the EcoSen LoRa data loggers of environmental quality will bring to all the citizens the possibility to be aware of the loss of environmental quality. These data loggers will be able to measure key parameters in the water (as dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pH and temperature) and this information will perfectly travel through LoRa conectivity to a server that will alert of the freshwater environment in real time. Thus, citizens could be noticed that the freshwater environment that they follow is being polluted. I that way, the social claim will be supported by precise, accurate and real time data.
We Assume that...
- The amount of vandalism to the data loggers will be low
- The people are concerned about the environmental degradation
- The people will check the degree of contamination on the server
- Municipalities in cities affected by pollution will be interested in the data obtained by the data loggers
- The data obtained from the data loggers will be reliable.
Constraints to Overcome
Despite the fact that many people know that freshwater pollution is a problem they do not know how much severe is. This fact discourages social demand. But if the citizens can quantify the amount of pollution that their ecosystems are facing the claim become just and concrete.
Current Work
We are producing contents for social media, calling for volunteers and testing some parts and functionalities of the device.