| Sanction Date: | 18.06.2020 | |||
| Project Category | MG | |||
| Year | 2020-2021 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 06 Months Project Extension | |||
| BTA : | Infrastructure Development | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee -247667, Uttarakhand, India |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | Department of Water Resources Development & Management Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee-247 667 (UK) | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Surendra Kumar Mishra |
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| Project Brief Description: | The continuous rise in population, urbanization, and industrialization has resulted into a routine challenge of maintaining the pipe networks/water distribution system and safety of water both in terms of quality and quantity. In many cities, typical sewerage, industrial and water distribution systems are installed with a large percentage of older pipes. As a result, pipe leakage, pipe chocking, water contaminations in India are perceived to be major challenges for water authorities, both from an environmental and economic point of view. Besides the environmental and economic losses caused by leakage, leaky pipes create a public health risk, as every leak is a potential entry point for contaminants if a pressure drop occurs in the system. Besides the pipelines conveying water form a country's important asset, contributing significantly to the nation's economy, monitoring of their structural heath is equally necessary. The consequence of a pipeline break includes cost of repair, water loss, and damage to infrastructure. Traditional technologies used in detection of leaks are complex and time taking. To address the problem, some of the works in national research have been reported with wireless sensor network (WSN) for water pipe leak detection in a network where each sensor head acts as a node and they have computed how fast signal processing can be done in a WSN using optimized routing algorithm. The reported work discusses algorithm based computation in a WSN which ideally requires fast and reliable online (real time) sensor node. Hence, there exists a need for real time (online), energy efficient, safe, accurate and low-cost solution for this problem. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | Masses relying on the piped water supply from springs in Himalayan regions, as it will involve largely women and people from weaker sections of the society. Besides, deployment of the technology in any of the towns/municipalities/cities/metros will benefit hundreds of thousands of the people, most of them involving women and people from weaker sections who are unable to afford costly water purifying systems. |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 99,99,120 (Rupees: Ninety nine lakh ninety nine thousand one hundred twenty only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
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• To develop low cost, innovative and energy efficient Radio Frequency (RF) based green technology for detection of water leakage, its size, and location in piped networks • Characterization and demonstration of the developed technology in pilot water pipe networks • Demonstration of the developed technology in selected field sites in Uttarakhand State of Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) • Development of market linkages through Startup India and Make in India Initiatives of Govt. of India • Capacity building and Skill development of diverse stakeholders through 4-5 training programs/Workshops on applications of the developed technologies to empowerment of stakeholders such as Government officials, local communities |
• Demonstration/Pilot Site (No. 01 in 3,000 sq. m) of RF/ Microwave sensing based experimental set-up for ensuring online monitoring of leakage in pipe system • 100 Low cost (8000-10,000 INR) sensors developed for real time monitoring system for detection and location of leakage in pipe distribution system • 6-7 Knowledge products developed: 2-3 Journal Publications; 02 Book Chapters; 01 Technology Patent; 01 Standard of Procedure (SoP) • State-of-the-art 4-5 training programs/workshops on applications of the developed technologies (approx. 350-400 direct beneficiaries) by way of involving local communities, local government, State Government for knowledge dissemination. |
• Experimental setup/ Demonstration model developed (No /%). • Meeting to be organized with relevant stakeholders (No. of meetings/participants) • Low- cost sensors developed (nos.) with multi-sensory Systems implemented • No. of Publications and Knowledge Products developed • Impact assessment survey and Report Feedback analysis with Recommendations • No. of field models developed • No. of Capacity Building/ Awareness Programs/ Trainings conducted/ organized, including (No. of Stakeholders benefitted). |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 01 JRF | @ Rs.31,000/-+ HRA | ||
| 2. | 01 Project Assistant | @ Rs.12,500/- | ||
| 3. | 01 Field Attendant/ Security Personal | @ Rs.10,000/- |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | Sensors-100 no's (Substrates, Microwave, Connectors/Adopters, Microwave Coaxial cables, Microwave, Solid State Device, Microwave Solid State Device) @ Rs.15 lakh, Digital movie cum still Camera- 1 no's Rs.0.50 Lakh, Field Demonstration model (pipes sensor system) Rs.2.00 lakh, Pump/ Motor- Rs.0.90 Lakh, Recirculating system- Rs.1.50 lakh and GI Pipes Rs.10.00 Lakh. | 29,90,000/- |
