Realtime monitoring and reporting of water in refugee camps

What is the humanitarian need?

Access to clean water is a human right, and in many refugee camps worldwide this is a scarce resource. Ensuring this resource is delivered to those that need it the most is a difficult challenge, unfortunately sometimes politically charged or subject to corruption. BRCK is developing a solution to ensure water delivery data is available to key decision makers, able to ensure water is delivered where is its needed most.

What is the innovative solution?

BRCK has been developing PicoBRCK over the last 2 years as a low cost, reliable IoT/M2M sensor gateway. Its designed to operate in remote and difficult environments, utilising edge caching and long distance RF communication.

What were the expected outcomes?

As a primary outcome, we expected to produce a map of sensor locations showing real water flow and real water quality (free of chlorine). This map would then inform agencies about the delivery of water, with an expected outcome of faster response rates, and higher availability of water amongst receipts. Secondarily, there was some indication of water being diverted away from core activities and this real-time system would ensure required water is delivered.