Cost effective sensors for pollutant detection

• 70% of surface water in India is unfit for consumption (ADR 2016)
• 40 mn. litres of waste water enters the rivers and water bodies daily (Down to Earth)

• $80 bn. cost due to environmental degradation
• Estimated health cost is about $6.7-8.7 bn. per year
• Loss of 40000 lives yearly in India due to the lack of water, sanitation and hygeine
• 1.5 mn children die and 200 million days of work are lost each year as a result to water related diseases

For effective interventions, the decision makers need

data that is:

• Reliable
• Representative
• Highly frequent

• Traditional method of water sampling is:

  • Slow
  • Tedious
  • Expensive
  • Prone to human error
  • Lack of resources
  • Lack of infrastructure

What are hyper-spectral sensors

• Sensors with hundresds of narrow, contigous bands in the electro magnetic spectrum
• facilitates diffrentiation between vast number of objects