NIRMAL

New Age Instruments for Nurturing

River Monitoring at Low-Cost

by
Deb Deep Sett, B.Tech IIT Madras
Deepak Arya, Dual Degree IIT Kanpur
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 Kritsnam Technologies
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! Kritsnam Technologies is a company in the field of IoT with focus on water

resource management solutions
! Incubated in SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) - IIT Kanpur
! Recognized by DIPP as an Official Start-up for Make In India initiative

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 Introduction
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! Water shortage is one of the real issues that the world is confronting today
! Fresh water is 2.7% of total available water on Earth
! 50% population of the world resides in 250 river basins
! Rivers are receiving and transporting urban, agricultural and industrial waste
! There is a significant challenge to water monitoring efforts

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 Basic Requirements for Water Resources
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Planning & Management

! Flow measurements
! Stage (Level) measurements
! Physical and Chemical water quality measurements
! Biological water quality measurements
! Soil Moisture Measurements
! Sediment Measurement

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 River Basin Management

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! Improvement of ecological conditions of water
! Monitoring drinking water supplies
! Sustainable use of water for industrial and agricultural needs
! Discharge Measurement & Management
! Proper Utilization for Hydropower Generation
! Disaster Prediction & Impact Mitigation

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6 Application of Instruments for River
Basin Management
! Stream monitoring
! Groundwater and shallow subsurface monitoring
! Reservoir monitoring
! Soil monitoring
! Distribution system monitoring
! Water Quality Monitoring
! Standard compliance monitoring
! Monitoring in support of modeling efforts

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 Satellite Data Integration for River Basin Management 

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! Prediction of inundated area by Digital Elevation Model and water level

data

! Weather Prediction and it’s effects on rivers

! Measurement of river width

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 Reservoir /Overhead Tank Storage and Discharge Measurement 

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! Tank Blockage detection

! Tank water health
! Demand estimation
! Peak Consumption Hours

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9 Flood Forecasting using Instruments

! Real time measurement for river stages

! Wireless sensor network for distribution and
centralization of flood data for proper sharing
of trans-boundary information
! Real-Time Flood Modeling
! Accurate and reliable timely flood warnings
using Data Acquisition, Processing and
Forecasting
! Flood Inundation Analysis and Forecasting
! Data communication and continuity even for
remote locations
! Web-based spatial decision support

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10 Instrument data for Flood Modeling

! Real-time data collection system

! Rainfall-runoff (hydrologic) modeling
! Channel routing (hydraulic) modeling
! Communication (warning) system

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ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

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12 Supporting Technology Overview

! Low-power IoT Devices (DONE)

! Low-power Cellular (6 months battery backup)
! LPWAN Technology (3 years battery backup)

! Theft Detection (In-development)

! A unified cloud platform (In-development)
! Modern UI for data visualization
! Portal for Data Scientists to apply algorithms directly on the portal

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 Instruments Challenges and Solutions
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Our Solutions
Conventional Solutions
• Compact Instrument
• Bulky instruments
• Economic
• Expensive
• Extremely Low Power
• High Power Requirements
• Remote diagnostics
• No remote diagnostics
• Better post-sale service
• Poor after-sale service
• Data reliability algorithms in
• No data reliability checks
Instrument as well as Cloud
• Outdated data portals
• Modern and secure data portals

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 Dhaara Water Level Instrument
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! Real time monitoring of water level measurement with GSM technology

! Low maintenance and unattended monitoring
! Applicable to static and dynamic systems
! High end performance and accuracy
! Real-time automatic calibration (humidity and temperature)
! Data Reading and Transmission frequency customizable
! Works for very low speeds of GSM as well

! Purchased by IIT Kanpur and CWC, Lucknow

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Deployment Sites

Bewar Devprayag
Rudraprayag

Dalmau

Mukhlispur

Uttarkashi
 Padmavati Water Quality Instrument 

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! Real-time Continuous water quality Measurement

! Measures pH, Electrical Conductivity and Turbidity
! Monitors water quality in Tanks and pipes
! Low maintenance and unattended monitoring

! Purchased by Jal Sansthan, New Tehri

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 Dhaara Soil Moisture Instrument:
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! The instrument is used to measure & log/transmit soil moisture data where
logger module stores data into a memory card
! The power is optimized for the logger module
! Measures VWC(Volumetric Water Content) of soil
! Cellular (2G, 3G) Transmission
! Capacitive sensor is used for high speed response

! Purchased by The World Bank for PANI Pilot for irrigation advisory

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 Handheld Water Quality Instrument
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! Hand held water quality device for measuring pH, Electrical Conductivity,
Dissolved Oxygen and Temperature
! Instrument is connected to phone through Wifi and Operated through an
App (user-friendly). Will send GPS and timestamp of measurement
! Remote locations can be monitored
! Calibration and cleaning can be performed in field
! Multiple locations can be covered

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 Dhaara Flowmeter
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! Ultrasonic flowmeters by the transit-time differential method measuring

principle
! For continuous process flow measurements with high accuracy requirements,
absolutely no maintenance
! Works for both laminar and turbulent flows
! Measuring device is permanently installed in the pipeline (in-line)

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PANI: Provision of Advisory for
necessary Irrigation
Ground Infrastructure for Monitoring Satellite acquired Data

Irrigation Advisory to Farmers

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Thank You

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