Monitoring and alerting water levels with spatial IoT

Explore how spatial IoT reinvents water level monitoring, providing rapid anticipation of risks worldwide.

At a glance

Issues

Water is a precious resource which is both threatening and threatened.
Yet water levels in the most remote regions are often poorly monitored.

Solutions

The IoT enables us to predict, analyze, and, if necessary, provide early warning of major risks.

Impacts

Anticipated information enables an appropriate response, thus preventing ecological or financial damage.

Issues

Water, which covers 72% of our planet, is a vital but fragile and unpredictable resource. Its variations can cause floods or shortages during droughts.

Water level monitoring is highly lacking, particularly in remote areas. Only 5% of the world's rivers are monitored, mainly due to outdated and costly methods. Manual monitoring and laboratory analysis, while accurate, are not suitable for a regular or global scale. What's more, many stations are located in areas with no connectivity, making data collection complicated if not impossible.

Every year in Europe, floods cause damage estimated at 7.6 billion euros. Studies such as the Explore2070 report predict a 10 to 40% reduction in the average annual flow of rivers in France by 2050, underlining the need for innovative solutions to manage our water resources.

The intensification and frequency of water-related problems call for more accurate, cost-effective and widely deployable monitoring technologies. Solutions that enable more frequent, wide-area data collection and analysis are crucial to a better understanding of hydrological challenges.

Improving our monitoring capacity with accurate, viable technologies is imperative. These technologies must enable frequent updates of measurements to anticipate sudden events and minimize their impact.

Limited access to quality, real-time data on the state of water resources.

High cost and complexity of installing monitoring systems in remote areas.

Lack of precision and frequency of measurements to anticipate and manage water-related crises.

Solutions

Facilitating the monitoring of water levels on a global scale is crucial to anticipate potential economic, ecological and health damage. Today, increasing our knowledge of hydrology has become essential for our well-being, the environment and the economy. This means simplifying the systematic collection of hydrological data, even in the most remote regions.

Key indicators such as pH, temperature, pollutants, turbidity, water level, flow and bathymetry need to be collected in near-real time. In addition, alerts need to be generated as soon as predefined thresholds are exceeded, enabling rapid and appropriate reactions.

To meet these needs for reliable, remote readings in areas sometimes not covered by terrestrial networks, the Kinéis solution offers ideal spatial IoT connectivity. Thanks to this connectivity, data collection becomes continuous and reliable, regardless of geographical barriers.

State, local and private sector users can receive personalized alerts in near-real time. This enables them to anticipate floods and droughts and manage water resources more effectively.

Continuous, reliable hydrological data collection, even in remote areas.

Connectivity that operates autonomously once the device has been deployed.

Personalized alerts in near-real time to anticipate disasters.

Impacts

Kinéis' satellite connectivity provides users with constant, reliable tracking, anywhere on Earth.

By using spatial IoT to closely monitor hydro-meteorological phenomena, it is possible to develop indicators for prevention, detection and risk reduction that are both reliable and accurate. Thanks to continuous monitoring, these indicators can trigger alert messages as soon as an anomaly is detected.

With Kinéis connectivity, river monitoring is optimized, enabling proactive and sustainable management of this vital resource. These valuable warnings enable rapid, effective action to limit the damage caused by high water or flooding.

Kinéis' satellite connectivity provides users with constant, reliable tracking anywhere on Earth.
Using spatial IoT to monitor water levels more closely enables the development of reliable and accurate risk prevention and reduction indicators. Continuously monitored, these indicators can also be used to send alert messages in the event of a detected anomaly.

These valuable warnings enable us to react quickly and effectively to limit the damage caused by high water, flooding or water contamination.

Anticipating a flood can minimize its economic and human consequences.

Improving our understanding of hydrology to better prepare for the future.

Extend our monitoring capabilities to cover previously inaccessible waterways.

Kinéis connectivity is essential for continuous, reliable monitoring of watercourses, enabling proactive, sustainable management. Let's adopt this technology to preserve our most precious resource.