Smart Water

Water is life. Our work has been around collecting water quality data, putting it on cutting-edge middleware for holistic analysis regardless of their source, finding insights that people may use and validating them in live environment.

The BlueWater web site is here. To get more details or get involved, contact us at: bluewater.ganga@gmail.com.

Collaborators: IIT Roorkee, University of Southern California, 2030 Water Group, State and Indian government bodies

News:

We will be giving a tutorial, titled AI for Data-Driven Decisions in Water Management, at the premier AAAI conference in Feb 2017 at San Francisco, CA, USA. (Details: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2017/aaai17tutorials.php#SP5).

Apps / tools

  1. "Water Advisor, a chat based advisor to taking decisions related to water taking into account water pollution". Paper at AAAI 2018, see video available at Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4x44sxC3zA (Sep 2017).
  2. WaterWatch app for water pollution information on Google playstore. App - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.research.waterwatch&hl=en. Code - https://github.com/sandeep-iitr/Water-Watch
  3. GangaWatch app for water pollution information on Google playstore. Video - https://youtu.be/MbVvVGsZoTo. See description on LinkedIn blog (Jan 2016).
  4. Neer Bandhu (Water Friend) app on Google playstore. See description here on LinkedIn blog. (Nov 2015)

Talks

  1. Environmental Decision Support in the Presence of Piece-Meal Water Pollution Data: Much is Possible Despite Odds,
    1. 2016 US-China Forum: Water and Urban Development, University of Chicago, Oct 14, 2016. Details: http://ime.uchicago.edu/events/4633/
    2. ACM DSP talk at IIT-BHU, India, Sep 20, 2016
    3. At Conference on Conservation, Computation, & Criminology (C4), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, July 6-8, 2016. Video available on Youtube.
  2. Blue Water at CSE Workshop on Mainstreaming Citywide Sanitation: Opportunities and Challenges in Excreta Management during 4-5 April, 2016 at IHC, New Delhi, India. Slides are on site as well as on slideshare.(April 2016).
  3. Talk on Data management practices and multi-sensor data fusion in water management, at IIT Kharagur (March 2016) and IIT Madras (Jan 2016.)

Papers

  1. An Open, Multi-Sensor, Dataset of Water Pollution of Ganga Basin and its Application to Understand Impact of Large Religious Gathering,
  2. Biplav Srivastava, Sandeep Sandha, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Sukanya Randhawa, Viral Kapoor, Anmol Agrawal
  3. On Arxiv at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05626, December, 2016.
  4. The GangaWatch Mobile App to Enable Usage of Water Data in Every Day Decisions Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data,
  5. Sandeep Sandha, Biplav Srivastava, Sukanya Randhawa,
  6. Demo paper; under review, 2016.
  7. Real-time Water Quality Sensing at a Large River-centric Religious Gathering,
  8. Vaskar Raychoudhury, Sandeep Singh Sandha, Viral Kapoor, Biplav Srivastava, Sukanya Randhawa, Anmol Agrawal,
    1. Under review, 2016.
  9. A multi-sensor process for in-situ monitoring of water pollution in rivers or lakes for high-resolution quantitative and qualitative water quality data
    1. Sukanya Randhawa, Sandeep S Sandha and Biplav Srivastava,
    2. 14th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC 2016), August 2016.
    3. Protecting the Nectar of the Ganga River through Game-Theoretic Factory Inspections,
    4. B. Ford, A. Yadav, A. Singh, M. Brown, A. Sinha, B. Srivastava, C. Kiekintveld, M. Tambe,
    5. 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Sevilla, Spain, June 1-3, 2016.
  10. The GangaWatch App and BlueWater Platform to Enable Usage of Water Data in India in Everyday Decisions Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data,
  11. Sandeep S. Sandha, Sukanya Randhawa, and Biplav Srivastava,
    1. Data Flow: Grand Challenges in Water Systems Modeling, Data Management, and Integration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, May 9-10, 2016.
    2. Blue Water: A Common Platform to Put Water Quality Data in India to Productive Use by Integrating Historical and Real-time Sensing Data,
    3. Sandeep S Sandha, Sukanya Randhawa and Biplav Srivastava,
    4. IBM Research Report RI15002, 2015.

Blogs

    1. [18 January 2016, Water usage app] Ganga Watch – An App for Using Water Data in Every Day Decisions, by Biplav Srivastava
    2. [18 January 2016, App details] Ganga Watch: Mobile Computing to Monitor River Water Quality in India, by Sandeep Sandha
    3. [20 December 2015, Water data collection] Two Days on Yamuna – Collecting Water Pollution Data is Both Simple and Complex,, by Biplav Srivastava
    4. [3 December 2015, Water crowd source app] Neer Bandhu, for Water Friends, by Biplav Srivastava
    5. [September 2015, Randomized inspection] Can Game Theory Help Clean the Ganga? Randomized Inspection is a Case in Point, Benjamin Ford, Biplav Srivastava*, Milind Tambe. At data.gov.in's envivonment community.