A System for Monitoring Water Quality Parameters in Rivers. Challenges and Solutions

Automated water quality parameters monitoring systems are essential for state-of-the-art water management, as they enable early detection and fast response to pollution events and provide large amounts of data for decision support systems. In this chapter, we identify and discuss the challenges of implementing a system for monitoring water quality in rivers from continuous data acquisition, to standards compliance and automated pollution detection. Moreover, we describe our complete solution for such a system, implemented on Somes River, that includes data acquisition implemented using WSNs, standard-compliant data storage, data provision services, and automatic assessment of water quality.