TFF Smart Groundwater Sensing

Smart sensing of groundwater for climate and ground subsidence.

Topic

Municipalities, homeowners, farmers, housing associations and water boards have a lot of damage because of the lower groundwater level, and the resulting subsidence and loss of yield. These parties are currently responsible for the management of groundwater themselves but have no or very limited insight into groundwater levels, which prevents them from taking adequate measures. A complicating factor is that the groundwater system is a coherent whole, where measures from different parties must be coordinated for efficient management.

Tekening van architectuur project Smart Groundwater Sensing

This project aims to design a 'low-cost' IoT smart sensor system to measure groundwater levels, developing a data collecting platform to give insight to municipalities, homeowners, farmers, housing corporations and water boards. Both high resolution insight at plot level and insight at water system level.

At Saxion, the project is coordinated by the research group Soil and Subsoil (in Dutch: Bodem en Ondergrond), in partnership with the research groups Applied Nanotechnology and Ambient Intelligence (AmI).

Project objectives

At the Ambient Intelligence research group, our aim is to contribute to the development and optimization of the low-power IoT-based water sensor system as well as the designing and supporting the cloud platform for data collection, storage, and analytics, to allow a highly expandable IoT monitoring system that could be easy deployed, providing a plug and play solution to support the management of underground water information.