K-Water Guard AI Agent is an intelligent environmental data automation system developed by the Regional Water Environment System Lab. The system supports automated water quality data collection, organized data storage, real-time visualization, spatial mapping, and scheduled reporting for Korean water quality monitoring networks.
Developed by: Mr. Sangbin Ha and Dr. Muhammad Waqas
Idea by: Prof. Sang Min Kim
Laboratory: Regional Water Environment System Lab
K-Water Guard AI Agent is designed to automate the process of collecting, storing, analyzing, and visualizing water quality data from Korean public water quality sources. Instead of manually downloading and processing environmental datasets, the agent performs repeated data collection and visualization tasks automatically.
This system helps researchers, students, and environmental professionals monitor water quality conditions more efficiently and supports research in river management, watershed analysis, pollution monitoring, and smart water resource management.
The agent automatically collects water quality monitoring data from Korean water quality sources and available monitoring stations. This reduces repetitive manual work and improves the efficiency of environmental data management.
Collected records are saved in structured data files, including master datasets, daily outputs, and location-based exports. This allows researchers to maintain updated water quality datasets for long-term analysis.
K-Water Guard AI Agent automatically generates visual outputs such as time-series plots, parameter distributions, regional comparison charts, water quality heatmaps, and summary dashboards.
The system supports station coverage maps and parameter-based water quality maps. These maps help identify spatial patterns in water quality across South Korea.
The agent can run automatically on a scheduled basis, making it suitable for daily or periodic monitoring workflows.
The system supports uploading and updating outputs through Google Drive for display on Google Sites. This makes it useful for laboratory webpages, research dashboards, and online project reporting.
K-Water Guard AI Agent supports major water quality parameters, including:
pH, dissolved oxygen, biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand, suspended solids, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, water temperature, electrical conductivity, turbidity, chlorophyll-a, ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, and phosphate phosphorus.
K-Water Guard AI Agent can be used for:
π Water quality monitoring
ποΈ River and watershed management
π§ͺ Environmental pollution assessment
π Long-term water quality trend analysis
πΊοΈ Spatial water quality mapping
π€ AI-assisted environmental data automation
π Automated research visualization
π« Environmental engineering education and training
π§ Smart water resource management
Water quality research often requires repeated data collection, cleaning, organization, and visualization. These tasks consume significant time when performed manually.
K-Water Guard AI Agent improves research productivity by automating the workflow from data collection to visualization. By combining Korean water quality data, Python-based automation, mapping, scheduled execution, and web publishing, the system provides a practical AI-assisted tool for modern environmental monitoring.
The Regional Water Environment System Lab conducts research on water environment systems, watershed management, water quality analysis, environmental data science, and smart water resource monitoring. Through tools such as K-Water Guard AI Agent, the lab aims to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and accessibility of environmental monitoring and water quality research.
Project Name: K-Water Guard AI Agent
Research Field: Water Quality Monitoring, Environmental Data Automation, Smart Water Management
Developed by: Mr. Sangbin Ha and Dr. Muhammad Waqas
Idea by: Prof. Sang Min Kim
Affiliation: Regional Water Environment System Lab
Main Technologies: Python, Public Water Quality Data API, Data Visualization, Spatial Mapping, Automated Scheduling, Google Sites, Google Drive
Dr. Muhammad Waqas
Example Results from K-WaterGuard AI Agent (26-06-2026)Β
Ammonia-N (26-06-2026)
BOD (26-06-2026)
COD (26-06-2026)
Chl-a (26-06-2026)