charity : water
How we used IoT and the cloud to safeguard clean water for 100 million people.
The
Challenge
Thankfully for the nearly 785 million people across the world who don’t have access to clean drinking water, charity : water has spent the last 13 years building a network of clean drinking water for local villages and communities. With over 50,000 wells in 28 countries, getting the water flowing is just the start: wells break down, and remote maintenance meant that communities would lose their access to quality drinking water.
Work Summary
In the toolbox:
Digital Solution Roadmap
Cloud Architecture & Development
Edge Device Design & Development
User Experience Design
Sensor Design & Development
Algorithm Development
Charity : water tapped Twisthink’s expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and IoT connectivity to advance their ideas about using new technologies to move their operation beyond just building wells.
Our product design imagined ways to:
- Monitor water flow remotely anywhere in the world
- Analyze the data and alert teams to water flow and pump issues
- Schedule proactive and predictive maintenance for water pumps
- Deploy teams to address pump issues and restore water flow
The
impact
In the digital sensor pilot, thousands of sensors have been deployed into the field.
By detecting issues and dispatching prompt repairs as necessary, water kept flowing while also being safeguarded for an estimated 100 million people.
Positively
quotable.
“The goal was to see if we could take a pump in the middle of Ethiopia, connect it to the cloud, see how much clean water was flowing over time, and know that the community would continue to be served over time.”
Get
started.
Digital transformation,
with a twist.
