Alseari, A.; Alsayed, H., and Abdulla, S., 2024. Real-time sea water monitoring and pollution assessment via IoT rover. In: Phillips, M.R.; Al-Naemi, S., and Duarte, C.M. (eds.), Coastlines under Global Change: Proceedings from the International Coastal Symposium (ICS) 2024 (Doha, Qatar). Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 113, pp. 1059-1063. Charlotte (North Carolina), ISSN 0749-0208.
Water pollution is a serious issue that affects many countries, particularly those that rely largely on marine resources, like Qatar. This project offers a rover designed to monitor sea pollution, which will help researchers discover pollution sources and levels. The remotely accessible rover is equipped with a variety of sensors and motors and gathers pollution samples while providing exact positions. Throughout the year, continuous improvements will incorporate the appropriate sensors to identify contaminants such as microplastics and oil spills, improving functionality via iterative testing. Field experiments show that microplastics reduce water pH and conductivity (R2 = 0.87 and 0.98, respectively), while increasing turbidity (R2 = 0.7). The rover notifies users when sensor readings change, easing the monitoring procedure for scientists. This unique technology achieves all project requirements by discovering connections between parameters and contaminants and delivering data to the IoT cloud for remote access, resulting in increased efficiency in water pollution research. Ultimately, the rover saves time for scientists who work in water pollution. It found the correlations between the parameters in the presence of pollutants, sends all the data to the IoT cloud, and can be accessed remotely.
