Project Leader: Phil Delaney, FrontierSI
Participants: FrontierSI , Myriota, University of SA, NGIS Australia, SA Department of Environment and Water
In this project we propose the development of a pilot to demonstrate
the use of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) low cost satellite
telecommunications solution as an end-to-end cost-effective means to
transmit and aggregate, in near real time, automatically collected
information from ground water bores in rural and regional areas, with
a focus on environmental water monitoring.
To this end, the project will test the technical feasibility,
reliability and cost-effectiveness of deploying an end-to-end IoT
satcoms solution in a remote and harsh environment – including
evaluating, procuring and deploying sensor technologies to measure
water levels, pressure, salinity, temperature and flow in groundwater
stations/bores and assessing the feasibility of these to operate
autonomously; in addition the project will define and develop a
prototype to provide a “universal” connectivity module for ground
water markets. This approach will be compared to current scenarios
where information is collected manually and sparsely in time.