Smart Tap

Smart Tap

1. Smart Tap Theofanis Lambrou aqua lligence

2. Did you know that 3,5 Million people die each year from a water related disease Source : WHO, 2012

3. Did you know that most of the world can’t get clean water from the tap Source: water.org

4. Water monitoring methods are labor-intensive and require manual sampling and laboratory analysis

5. Current methods fail to monitor the entire water distribution system and thus the quality of water delivered to consumers

6. Water contamination events can have a dramatic effect on everyday life , as well as on the local economy …

7. West Virginia, 2014 Ty Wright, New York Times

8. 300 000 without water after a chemical spill Tap water was unsafe for drinking, bathing, cooking wash, brushing teeth, etc.

9. In USA, each year more than half a million people suffer a moderate to severe waterborne infection Hunter PR. “Waterborne disease epidemiology and ecology”, Wiley, 1997

10. What if consumers had a smart device which can informed them in real time about their drinking water quality and what if all these devices were connected to the internet through IPv6 ?

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12. Smart Tap is an IP-enabled device for real time monitoring of potable water contamination at consumer sites .

13. Smart Tap is a low cost , integrated hardware-software sensory system that allows the in-pipe (or in-tank ) monitoring of water quality .

14. When contamination or significant violation in any key water quality parameter is detected , an alert is sent to interested parties/ users .

15. Alerts and pertinent data are transmitted over the Internet Protocol to a cloud service and can be received by other IP devices, i.e. smartphones , tablets, laptops, etc .

16. Smart Tap can be used equally efficiently by home-owners as by industrial users (hospitals, hotels, cruise ships, etc ) and water utilities .

17. Smart Tap can provide a pervasive early warning system for potable water quality through the Internet of Things .

18. Smart Tap is comprised of a multi-parameter sensor array along with several microsystems for analog signal conditioning , processing and uploading data to Xively Cloud Service using the RESTful api .

19. sensors in-pipe installation IP-enabled intelligent controller contamination indicator

20. Smart Tap can be installed in a water pipe ( e.g. beneath the kitchen cupboard) or in a water tank . The data from the sensors are analyzed by an intelligent algorithm running on Smart Tap’s AVR microcontroller

21. The algorithm fuses multi sensor measurements in order to assess the water contamination risk . The contamination risk indicator is expressed as a percentage , 100% means that water is totally contaminated.

22. We perform some demonstration trials to illustrate the system behavior on intentional water contamination events from various surrogate contaminants . Non dangerous/toxic substances are used in the IPSO challenge.

23. We use the following substances: Saline water to emulate sewage contamination. Nitrogen fertilizer to emulate chemical contamination (nitrates are toxic to humans, blue-baby syndrome) Bleach to emulate high levels of disinfection by-products such as THMs (THMs are considered carcinogenic) Baker's yeast to emulate microbiological contamination (e.g. pathogenic bacteria ) All are detected, watch our video…

24. The IPv6/6lowpan protocols also enables advanced networking capabilities for our future developments machine to machine interaction (between topologically neighboring SmartTap nodes in large scale deployments (e.g. city) human interaction ( receiving consumer complains about water taste, smell, etc.), in order to provide more reliable alerts to water utilities and consumers.

25. Creative Commons, Flickr , Dimitris Papazimouris

26. Theofanis Lambrou [email protected] Creative Commons, Flickr , Dimitris Papazimouris Smart Tap

27. Our vision is to provide a real-time and care-free service for all our clients and protect consumers’ health

28. in-house hardware & software patentable algorithms 10x cheaper and smaller than other water quality equipment

29. 95% would like to have Smart Tap Online Questionnaire, 201 samples in Cyprus & Greece