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Waterdash

Waterdash is a real-time water quality monitoring system as a platform that specifically designed to monitor and does predictive analytics on water quality. The goal of this project is to have an analytical dashboard for the researchers to monitor the water quality and have an analytical prediction on the behavior of water quality. Initially, WaterDash is focusing on becoming the main platform to be used for the ‘Low-Cost Solar Powered & Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring System project on Malaysia Seawater Aquaculture project [1] in creating a real-time data collecting device and perform further studies that include analytics and prediction of interest water quality data [2].

In this case, we are dealing with monitoring the water quality of the seawater aquaculture and the main concern is on mitigating the growth of harmful algal bloom (HAB) which becomes a threat to the aquaculture ecosystem as it reduces safe water usage and causes water pollution. To perform further studies and analysis on the water quality data, profiling environmental readings will be the key element to acquiring understanding into the algal bloom growth. The sensors probe that is used to profile are:

Electric Conductivity

Dissolve Oxygen

Turbidity

pH

Temperature

Total Dissolve Solid

While the software development of a water monitoring programme is developed using the C/C++ language in Arduino Bluno. Arduino Bluno (on-board BLE chip: TI CC2540). This tool functioned as a micro-controller, which controlled the data transfer. Based on this experience, Waterdash is foresee to extend its objectives to any contaminant related to water quality. Equipped with solar and low-cost sensors behind its development, the flexibility of Waterdash features has made it is easy to use and can be personalized according to any business or research needs. With the dashboard, users do not need to manually analyze the water all the time and can monitor the status using it as a long-distance diagnostic and maintenance device.

Moreover, Waterdash module in providing predictive services can forecast contaminant of interest up to several days ahead. Various experiment and benchmarking of different machine learning and statistical time series algorithm has been experiment on the benchmark data. At last, The predictive model is developed using a deep learning algorithm with its capability to process a large volume of time series data efficiently [2]. The framework in Figure 2 is the motor behind the predictive capabilities of Waterdash. Not limited to only this type of data, users with their own business goal can upload any type of benchmark data of interest and perform analytical and predictive model [3].

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Predictive Modelling Framework

Achitecture Diagram

Our Team

Acknowledgent

Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia | Transdisciplinary Research Grant (TRGS)

Project Title: Sensor-based profiling and predictive analytics of solar flux and water quality on the seawaer farm

Fund: Transdisciplinary Research Grant (TRGS/1/2018/USM/01/5/4-203.PKOMP.67612) By Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia

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